Services and training courses to help with your BRC Standard implementation & certification.

The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety – Awareness Course

A one day course to give your senior management an insight into the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety.

Presented by a Qualified BRC Auditor, the course is designed for Technical & Quality Assurance Managers and owner managers who have a responsibility for the development and implementation of systems to meet the BRC (British Retail Consortium).Standard.

Course content:            

Background to the BRC Standard.

The BRC Standard audit protocol.

The requirements of the BRC Standard.

Development of your systems.

Cost £550:00

BRC Standard Training + Review Audit

A two day course presented by a Qualified BRC Auditor, giving your senior management an insight into the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety. Day two will review your current systems against the new BRC Standard. This will provide a gap analysis and a starting point for the development of your systems.

Day 1

Course content:            

Background to the BRC Standard.

The BRC Standard audit protocol.

The requirements of the BRC Standard.

Development of your systems.

Day 2

Full audit of curent systems

Audit report and recommendations

Cost £850:00

Pre-BRC Standard Audits

So you think you are ready for a BRC Standard Audit?

This Pre-BRC audit will check that you have fully implemented your systems and have the necessary evidence to support the effectiveness of your system.

This service comes with a full report which can also be used as one of your independent audits of your food safety management system.

This is typically a two day audit.

Full audit of curent systems

Audit report and recommendations

Cost £850:00 for 2 day audit (£450 for 1 day audit)

Practical Internal Audit Course

A common non-conformity in BRC certification audits is against the following clause:

“Internal audits shall be carried out by appropriately trained competent auditors, independent from the audited department”.

Don’t get caught out with this!

We can train a team of up to 10 staff on site with our one day practical audit course – providing you with a pool of auditors to cover your system with the necessary independence.

Course content:

Morning session

Audit preparation

Skills of auditors

Principles of auditing

The reference standard – BRC Standard

Audit sequence

The audit programme

Developing audit checklists

Obtaining information

Concluding the audit

Afternoon session

Preparing the audit checklist

Practical exercise

Audit summary

Cost £550 training up to 10 staff.

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Food Hygiene Training for Engineers

The BRC Standards States

“The company shall ensure that the safety or legality of product is not jeopardised during maintenance and cleaning operations”.

Our specific Food Hygiene for Engineers course is a 2 hour course which recaps on essential food hygiene requirements together with HACCP. This course and certificates awarded to attendees will provide evidence that your engineering staff have the necessary knowledge.

Course Content:

• Video presentation – Hygiene for Engineers – covers introduction and recap of basic hygiene requirements.
• What is HACCP.
• 7 Codex HACCP principles.
• HACCP – stages of developing a system.
• Microbiological hazards and examples.
• Chemical hazards and examples.
• Physical hazards and examples.
• Pre-requisites including specific engineering pre-requisites e.g. lubricants. PPM, contractors.
• Your CCP’s
• Legislation and HACCP.
• BRC Standard – maintenance section.

Cost £550 for two 2 hour sessions in one day.

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All courses subject to VAT, travel and hotel expenses where necessary.