FOOD SAFETY AUDITING

A Two Day Course

Course Outline

For

Personnel who are required to perform and/or manage in-house food safety audits.

Purpose

To enable course members to:

• Schedule, plan and prepare food safety audits
• Identify potential food safety and hygiene problems
• Perform food safety audits effectively
• Initiate suitable corrective actions
• Report findings clearly and concisely

Content

• The importance of food safety audits
  • Legal requirements
  • Customer requirements
• Food Safety audit objectives
• Identifying potential food safety problems
  • Physical contamination
  • Chemical contamination
  • Bacterial contamination/growth
  • Allergens
• Auditing HACCP systems
• Audit planning and preparation
• Performing audits
  • Auditor conduct
  • Auditing techniques
  • Recording the audit
• Corrective actions
• Audit reports
• Preparation and performance of live audits

Duration

The course is run in-house over two days. It is structured to enable course members to put food safety audit theory into practice during live audits.