Distillery Risk Assessment Template
Create a professional, comprehensive risk assessment for distillery in food & beverage settings. Tailor hazards and measures to your needs and download a professional PDF. Add your own branding.
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What this covers.
This template focuses on typical risks and controls for distillery in food & beverage settings. You can add, remove or adapt items to match your context.
Potential benefits
- Encourages controlled, educational sampling in a regulated environment.
- Develops high-skill roles in distillation, maturation, and quality assurance.
- Generates visitor spend via guided tours and tasting experiences.
- Showcases heritage techniques that enhance regional identity.
- Creates downstream value in cooperage, packaging, and design services.
Typical hazards & measures
- Customer intoxication in tasting room — Train staff in responsible service, provide water and spittoons, enforce Challenge 25, and document refusals. Keep incident logs and provide clear signage on drinking policies.
- Glass breakages in bottling/tasting — Provide guarded bottling lines, shatter bins, and shard kits. Train staff to clean with tools not hands, quarantine contaminated stock, and use shatterproof glassware where possible in tours.
- Fire hazards in bonded storage — Segregate flammable spirit storage, fit fire-resistant doors, and install suppression systems. Keep aisles clear, train fire wardens, and maintain alarms. Conduct drills with local fire services annually.
- Confined space entry (fermenters, tanks) — Require permits, continuous ventilation, and atmospheric testing. Provide harnesses, attendants, and rescue equipment. Prohibit solo entry, and rehearse rescue drills quarterly.
- Customer congestion during tours/events — Limit tour sizes, mark routes, and brief guests on safety before entry. Keep fire exits clear, post occupancy limits, and train guides to manage evacuation. Run regular crowd management drills.
How to use this template
- Click Create Risk Assessment: Distillery to begin immediately.
- Review suggested hazards and measures, then tailor as needed.
- Download your PDF. Create a free account if you want to save.
FAQ
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