How to use this worksheet: complete one row for every step on your verified process flow diagram, and one row per hazard where a step has more than one. Fill in every column, the justification column is the one auditors read most closely. Significance and control decisions must come from your HACCP team, a regulation, or a process authority, never from a template. Structure follows the FDA HACCP Principles and Application Guidelines (Principle 1) and the NACMCF hazard-analysis format. Delete these italic notes before issuing your worksheet.
Worksheet header
Company / facility
Product / process covered
Prepared by (HACCP team)
Date prepared / last reassessed
Hazard analysis worksheet
Column key, (1) Process step from your flow diagram. (2) Potential hazard. (3) Type: B = biological, C = chemical (including allergens), P = physical. (4) Significant? Reasonably likely to occur AND severe if uncontrolled, Yes/No. (5) Justification for the column-4 decision. (6) Control measure(s) that prevent, eliminate, or reduce the hazard. (7) Is this step a CCP for this hazard? Yes/No.
1. Process step
2. Potential hazard
3. B/C/P
4. Significant? (Y/N)
5. Justification
6. Control measure
7. CCP? (Y/N)
Worked example row (delete before use)
1. Process step
2. Potential hazard
3. B/C/P
4. Significant?
5. Justification
6. Control measure
7. CCP?
Cook
Survival of vegetative pathogens (Salmonella)
B
Yes
Raw poultry routinely carries Salmonella; no later step reduces it before consumption
Validated time/temperature cook to a lethal internal temperature
Yes
Receiving, flour
Metal fragments
P
Yes
Possible in milled ingredients; controlled downstream
Sifter here; final metal detector is the control point
No
Packaging
Undeclared allergen (milk) from prior run
C
Yes
Shared line runs a milk-containing product; residue could cross-contact
The example rows show what a defensible entry looks like, a specific hazard, a real reason in the justification column, and a control that matches. Delete them before issuing your own worksheet.
Before you sign off
Every step on the verified flow diagram appears at least once.
Each significant hazard has a control measure named in column 6.
The justification column gives a real reason, not "industry standard."
Every "Yes" in column 7 carries forward to the CCP worksheet with a critical limit, monitoring, and corrective action.
Allergen, chemical, and radiological hazards were considered, not just microbial ones.
The HACCP team reviewed and dated the completed worksheet.
