Food Safety needs a systematic approach; it is not something that can be left to chance. Good management is a result of establishing and reviewing appropriate practices and systems.

The Systems 3 Group provides food safety training programs to assist manufacturers, caterers, food preparation sections, and food providers in implementing, enhancing and auditing food safety management systems.

If you hold an audit, review or inspection role in the food industry and wonder if you are doing things effectively? If you need the knowledge to manage a Food Safety Management System, or the qualifications to become a Food Safety auditor? Then one of our training courses could benefit you

Overview:

This course is designed to provide knowledge and understanding of Food safety auditing and how ISO22000 Food safety management systems work. Participants learn practical skills from experienced audit and management systems practitioners. The content while challenging is delivered in a relaxed, personal manner. Whether you are seeking review skills, knowledge to sustain a Food safety management system, or certification as an auditor, attendance at this course is a must.

The four-day program provides learning outcomes and assessment to meet RABQSA International’s knowledge competencies for FSMS auditor certification and the training requirements for IRCA FSMS auditor certification.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the application of ISO19011 audit steps to auditing Food safety management systems
• Understand ISO 22000 and how it can be applied to design a Food Safety Management System (FSMS)
• Understand HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) and pre-requisite programmes (PRP’s) such as GMP and SOP’s
• Understand the application of auditing to processes and integrated systems criteria
• Understand how to perform audits acceptable to auditor certification criteria

Approvals:

This course provides a learning and assessment pathway to the following RABQSA International competency units:

RABQSA-AU : Management systems auditing
RABQSA-FS: Food safety management systems 
RABQSA-TL: Leading management system audit teams

Participant’s assessed as competent in both AU and FS, units will meet RABQSA knowledge competency requirements to register at FSMS auditor level. Participant’s also assessed competent in the TL unit will meet knowledge competency requirements for FSMS Lead Auditor level. There are however further requirements to register with RABQSA or IRCA as Auditors/Lead Auditors.

Participants assessed competent in both AU and either FS or QM units will meet knowledge competency requirements necessary to register at auditor level with RABQSA International relevant auditor certification schemes. Participants additionally assessed as competent in the TL unit will also meet the knowledge requirements to register at the Lead Auditor level. There are however further requirements to register as auditors/ lead auditors with both RABQSA International (Australasia/USA) and the IRCA their (UK) equivalent.

This training course and certificate of attainment is recognised by IRCA as meeting the requirement for auditor certification to
Competence units AU+TL+FS = FSMS Auditor/ Lead Auditor

This training course and certificate of attainment is recognised by IRCA as meeting the requirement for auditor certification to
Competence units AU+TL+QM = ISO9000: 2000 Series Auditor/ Lead Auditor

 

Content:

• Food safety management systems
• Audit concepts
• ISO22000 (HACCP:ISO9001)
• Audit steps: planning to follow-up
• Auditing food safety processes
• Human factors in audits
• Audits to certification criteria
  

 

Course Name: ISO22000 Awareness Course

Overview:

Designed specifically for personnel responsible for conducting internal audits of their food safety management systems, this program teaches more than compliance auditing. During the program emphasis is placed on the practice of auditing for effectiveness and improvement in management processes.

This two -day course also provides awareness and interpretation of ISO22000 requirements and application. The program is delivered on a public basis using interactive learning. Clients may prefer to have the program customised and delivered in-house for multiple participants.

Learning Outcomes:

• Apply effective audit techniques to the auditee’s Management System
• Verify the effectiveness and efficiency of audited systems
• Understand the people attributes necessary to conduct effective and efficient audits
• Understand the intent and audit application of ISO22000

Approvals:

This course provides a learning and assessment pathway to the following RABQSA International competency unit:

RABQSA-AU: Management systems auditing

Participants assessed as competent will meet the RABQSA International requirements and be issued a certificate of attainment for this competency unit.

Content:

• ISO22000
• Auditing for effectiveness and improvement
• Food Safety Management system overview
• Introduction to auditing
• Steps of the audit process; planning, on-site, reporting, follow-up
• Gauging the effectiveness of the management system
• Questioning techniques
• Human factors in the audit process
• Avoiding common pitfalls
• Audit application of ISO22000