COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.
The ISO 22000:2018 provides industry with a standard for managing and reducing the risks to health resulting from operations across the food chain. The principal aim of this course is to help participants with a food industry background to assess the adequacy of the design, implementation and improvement of a food industry organization’s food safety management system against ISO 22000:2018 in accordance with ISO 19011.
The food safety management system auditor’s task is a complex one, with audit activity having to take into account many different levels of practices and procedures that support food safety, compliance to food safety legislation and other food safety requirements throughout the whole food chain. Whatever is actually in place within an organization, there is a need to recognize that food safety priorities must form the focus of the audit process.
This course is designed to provide food chain professionals with the skills and knowledge necessary to audit food safety management systems. Although there is a clear, identifiable trend toward adopting a systematic approach to the regulation of food safety, there has been little commonality internationally amongst industry practices, with a great many different standards and guidance documents in use, including rating systems, point systems and a variety of management systems and management system guidelines. ISO 22000:2018 now provides the opportunity for achieving such commonality across all sectors of the food chain internationally.
The focus of this course is on evaluating the effectiveness of a FSMS through interpretation of ISO 22000:2018 in the context of the scope of an organization’s management arrangements, its legislative framework and the significant hazards of its operational processes.
The course is based on ISO 22000:2018 and ISO 19011, and audit activity of a food safety management system will require the auditor or audit team to recognise a wide variety of system components (i.e. a combination of a management system, risk assessment and control methodology and a variety of industry good practice and standard operating procedures that comprise the food safety management system).