More Risk Assessments!

I'm doing more risk assessments, whoopee! haha. I don't mind, I actually enjoy doing them, I think it's really neat to evaluate area/equipment/task and determine the possible risk of exposure. As I mentioned, I've already completed risk assessments on all the lines on the production floor, now I'm doing every product specifically on a line. So if one line has five different products it can run, I will do five separate risk assessments in addition to the one I've already done on the line. If one product runs on several lines, I will still do it per line, so there will be multiple options for that one product. Largely all I do is copy/paste from the original line assessment and figure out if there's anything new or any changes. However, I have spent a lot of time making it easier to go out on the floor with a guide to determine changes resulting from the different product. To do so, I've gone back to my original assessments and established baseline products - common products for that line that reflect normal use of stationary equipment. For instance, on Polar, a production line, Original Klondike bars are the baseline product. I designed several spreadsheets that progress through the line as I would on the production floor (mix tanks to boxes) to make it easier to note changes. Sometimes we run Reese's Klondike bars on Polar, the main difference here is the barrels of peanut butter and the chopped up pieces of Reese's cups that are added into the product. Because of the two additives, there are three new tasks that need to be added and one new piece of equipment. All the changes go into the master spreadsheet with the baseline product assessment so when I go on the floor with the print out, I can just reference the correct number. Pretty cool stuff.