the food industry

In the competitive Food Industry, with high customer expectations, interrupting the production process is not an option. Any form of incident, whether it is a false alarm, an equipment breakdown or a fire will result in an interruption to the production process.

In a major corporation with many different sites servicing the same customer (major supermarket chains, for example) there becomes a second more pressing issue. A single sites failure to deliver can reflect badly on the entire business, damaging its hard-earned reputation. This can lead to reduced market share and decreased shareholder value.

Improving risk management through strategic risk engineering not only addresses the critical loss exposures, but also enhances the reliability of the production processes. To do this successfully requires changes to processes, protection systems and culture.

Exposures in the Food and Drink Industry are typically created by the presence of combustible construction and high hazard processes, all of which require a high level of expertise to develop and implement suitable and effective risk engineered solutions.

elciem has worked extensively with clients in this sector to manage both process hazards and the hazards presented by combustible construction. This has been achieved in part through the development of hazard-specific protection systems, and the development and implementation of risk management practices and procedures designed to prevent loss happening in the first place.