Smith's Snackfoods verifies safety with SAGE

The Smith’s Snackfood Company is the snacks manufacturing division of PepsiCo in Australia, and produces an extensive range of products, markets popular brands like Smith’s Chips, Doritos Corn Chips, Twisties, Sunbites Grain Waves, Red Rock Deli, Nobby’s Nuts, Parker’s Pretzels, Cool Pak and Sakata Rice Crackers.

Smith’s have a passionate and forward thinking approach to safety and in reaction to the 2014 updates to the Australian Safety Standards the company underwent a verification program.

 

 SAGE supported Smith's in its safety verification check. SAGE's checks can include the following:

• Ensure trouble-free and safe operation
• Get a neutral, external, and expert point of view Gain practical expert support from design to implementation and ongoing testing
• Give you the benefit of our broad experience across a number of industry sectors
• Undertake risk analysis, HAZOPs, LOPAs
• Technical assistance and support with the development and elaboration of safety concepts
• Validation of single safety functions (safety instrumented function - SIF)
• Safety technical validation of applications and system implementations

Smith's remains fully verified in its Australian Safety Standards and recognises that safety is a critical element of its operations. Implementing safety standards that focus on performance levels is more efficient in the long run and builds in even greater reliability and safety to the manufacturing process.