Food Safety Management Systems

The Food Safety Management Systems course teaches you how to perform a food safety audit. Specifically, participants learn:

Food Safety system requirements

• Food legislation
• HACCP – Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
• Food Safety programmes
• What an auditor should look for
• What an auditor needs to know about Food Safety and the audit programme
• Terminology and concepts of Food Safety programmes
• How to apply Food Safety management principles in the context of ISO 22000
• Relating the Food Safety management system to the organisational products, including services and operational processes
• Documentation required by ISO 22000
• Understand the issues arising from implementing a Food Safety Management System

After successful completion of this course, you will have the knowledge to be able to establish, implement, and maintain a Food Safety management system.

• Food Safety auditing
• Food legislation
• HACCP – Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
• Food Safety programmes
• What an auditor should look for
• What an auditor needs to know about Food Safety and the audit programme
• Terminology and concepts of Food Safety programmes
• How to apply Food Safety management principles in the context of ISO 22000
• Relating the Food Safety management system to the organisational products, including services and operational processes
• Documentation required by ISO 22000
• Understand the issues arising from implementing a Food Safety Management System

This course in internationally recognised, and is certified by Exemplar Global. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will achieve the following competency units of:

• Exemplar Global – FS Food Safety Management Systems
  • Exemplar Global NFS-1 – Assess Compliance with Food Safety programs
  • Exemplar Global NFS-2 – Communicate Food Safety Audits
  • Exemplar Global NFS-3 – Conduct Food Safety Audits
  • Exemplar Global NFS-4 – Identify, Evaluate, and Control Food Safety Hazards
• Exemplar Global HP – Developing HACCP Plans

This course has the equivalent of 24 Professional Development (PD) points.

There are no prerequisites for this course. 

All assessment is conducted during the course, and there is no homework. Throughout the course, each participant will complete:

• Case study review
• Evaluation of Food Safety audit scenarios

The final piece of assessment is a short exam.

Participants prepare, complete, and hand in copies of their assessments during class – there is never any homework!

Who should attend?

You should attend if you:

•  are developing and implementing a Food Safety management system
•  are looking to work in the area of Food Safety
•  wish to consolidate any informal experience you may have gained in your career
•  If your existing FSMS is not giving you the benefits it should

Additional Exemplar Global competencies for Management Systems auditing (Exemplar Global AU and TL) may be added during the same week of training, or attended separately. Competencies for Information Security Management Systems may be attended separately.

If you wish to become a registered third-party, or external Food Safety Management Systems auditor with Exemplar Global, completing this course is the first step. Once you have obtained the Exemplar Global competencies from this course, as well as the auditing competency units of Exemplar Global AU and TL, you will follow a qualification-based certification path.  A full explanation of the requirements to become certified with Exemplar Global can be found here, or contact us for more information.

How to enrol

PwC offers an easy, streamlined enrolment process – you can either enrol directly into your course online, or call us on 1300 95 96 92 to enrol over the phone.

Discounts for multiple attendees are available – Please call us to find out what discounts can be applied.

How to pay

We offer a variety of payment methods:

• Direct debit
• Credit card
• Cheque
• Payment plans

Payment plans

We are able to arrange flexible payment plans on an individual basis. Please be aware that your certificate will be held until full payment has been received.

Delivery

Public – Face to face

Our regular public courses are conducted in capital cities and key regional centres in Australia and New Zealand. You will enjoy an excellent learning experience in a premium training venue, and;

• We never cancel courses – book with confidence
• Class sizes are kept to manageable numbers – so everybody learns
• No homework or take-home assessment! All work is completed in course time – we know you’re busy
• No major exam – we assess you as you go

Public – Virtual/Online

In response to COVID-19 and social distancing, we’ve developed an online digital classroom to deliver our courses virtually and keep the interaction and engagement between trainer and participants. Our virtual training platform incorporates:

• Group exercises – facilitated by mini break out workshops amongst the team
• Ability to ask questions in real time
• Built in note taking and tracking of course materials
• You can interact with participants throughout the session through a chat functionality
• Online assessments providing a streamlined marking process

Our aim is to recreate the classroom experience in a safe, virtual environment, maintaining the fun and engaging experience our clients find useful and valuable.

In house – Face to face or virtual

In house training can provide a cost-effective training solution for organisations with a number of staff who require training. We can also customise a course to suit your own individual needs, and include your own audit documentation. Call us on 1300 95 96 92 for a quote and to discuss your individual training needs.