FSSC 22000 Implementation and Internal Auditor Course

Master the PDCA model for FSSC 22000 implementation, detailing organizational and operational planning, checking, and continual improvement with internal audit, control measures, and performance evaluation.

Explore international food safety management through the Global Food Safety Initiative, uniting retailers, manufacturers, and food service firms to harmonize safety standards and recognized schemes.

Learn how HACCP, an internationally recognized system for hazard analysis and critical control points, minimizes biological, chemical, and physical food hazards across manufacturing, processing or handling.

Develop hazard analysis to identify physical, chemical, and biological hazards. Define critical control points and establish limits, monitoring, corrective actions, and verification to prevent hazards in HACCP development.

Build a HACCP system by implementing programs and environmental controls to prevent product contamination, promote hygienic manufacturing practices, and identify and mitigate hazards to acceptable levels.

Define corrective actions for each critical control point to ensure no nonconforming products are released, identify causes, and eliminate costs through process evolution, enabling quick response to out-of-control situations.

Form a food safety team to identify information needed for hazard analysis, collect material and ingredient data, map process flow, and note outsourced work and regulatory requirements.

Identify the food organization's context and issues relevant to its food safety system, and describe leadership roles, training, competency, performance reporting, and the needs and expectations of interested parties.

Identify internal and external issues that affect the organization's food safety performance, adapt to changing legislation, economic and political conditions, and document analysis with auditors and stakeholders.

Identify and manage interested parties for a food safety management system, including management, contractors, external providers, vendors, regulators, and customers, to reduce supply chain risks.

Define the scope of the food safety management system by identifying interested parties, boundaries, and risks; plan, implement, and evaluate actions to address opportunities and ensure conformity.

Define and manage support functions by ensuring competence and documenting records as proof of competence, while fostering communication to support the food safety policy, objectives, and the management system.

Identify and allocate resources including infrastructure, work environment, and human factors to implement and improve food safety management system with externally developed elements like hazard analysis and hazard control plan.

Control externally provided processes and services by applying provider evaluation criteria. Select, monitor, and communicate requirements to staff and providers; retain documented information for the food safety management system.

Learn how internal communication and documented information, per seven point four point three, enable timely updates on products, materials, equipment, and food safety hazards, with robust controls, retention, and access.

Implement FSSC 22000 focuses on operational planning and control, establishing criteria for operation processes, documenting information, managing changes, and controlling externally provided processes to realize safe products through internal audits.

Explore performance evaluation and improvement in a facility food safety management system, detailing monitoring and measurement, data analysis, internal audits, and management reviews to drive continual improvement.

Conduct management reviews to evaluate food safety performance, incidents and nonconformities, risks and opportunities, legal requirements, and internal and external issues, guiding resources toward continual improvement and strategic direction.

Explore continual improvement within the food safety management system, including handling nonconformities, corrective actions, and the involvement of top management to improve the system’s effectiveness and manage incidents.

Explore the key requirements of FSSC 22000 version 5.1, including food fraud mitigation, labeling, allergy management, environmental monitoring, and competence for internal laboratories.

Explore the rationale for publishing FSSC 22000 version 5.1, showing how it aligns with GFSI benchmark requirements in 2020.1 and outlines the key changes.

Identify key changes in version 5.1 requirements for multi-site certification and product design and development, and implement new practices for employee communication, training, and performance measurements.

Explore the ISO 22000 requirements for FSSC 22000 implementation, covering cross-contamination prevention, hygienic operations, supplier management, hazard control, cleaning, pest control, personal hygiene, monitoring, recalls, warehousing, and food defense.

Explore the foundations of auditing in the FSSC 22000 internal auditor course, establishing the basics of auditing.

Identify audit evidence and criteria, including standards, laws, SOPs, and contracts, and compare collected records to determine conformity, nonconformity, opportunities for improvement, and compliance status.

Explore why audits matter for evaluating management system effectiveness, reporting performance, and identifying improvement opportunities, and learn the three audit types: first party, second party, and third party.

Identify the steps to prepare for an audit by defining objectives, scope and criteria, selecting the team, choosing the methodology, assembling working documents, and conducting a preliminary document review.

Define the audit scope and assemble a plan with lead auditor and team, outlining methodology, site inspections, and time-based scheduling to verify operations and manufacturing activities.

Explore systems and documentation used in audits, including preliminary document reviews, audit checklists, and forms for evidence and findings, to guide auditors through evaluation of management system elements.

Learn to conduct audits effectively within the FSSC 22000 implementation framework, building internal auditor competencies and ensuring audit integrity.

Identify how conformity fulfills requirements through a competent workforce, recruitment, and ongoing training. Detect nonconformity when internal audits are neglected, as in missed audits after policy timelines.

Discover root cause analysis (RCA) as the process of identifying the true root causes of nonconformities, using a range of approaches, tools, and techniques to drive process improvement.

Explore diverse root cause analysis methods, including evidence and causal factor analysis, change analysis, Barria analysis, and management oversight and risk analysis, to identify, analyze, and resolve system failures.

Explore root cause analysis tools from Pareto charts and the 80-20 rule to five whys, fishbone and fishbowl diagrams, scatterplots, and regression, all tied to cost and risk analysis.

Present audit evidence and findings against standard criteria, differentiating conformance from deviation findings, and highlight nonconformance caused by inadequate procedures or lack of control.