This qualification is aimed at learners who are working at a management level in a manufacturing business, quality assurance staff or members of a HACCP team. It would also be useful for trainers, auditors, enforcers and other food safety professionals. Achievement of this qualification gives learners the skills to assist in the implementation of a HACCPsystem, to critically evaluate HACCP plans and to understand the importance of having an effective HACCP system in place.

Subjects covered include the principles of HACCP management for food manufacturing, understanding the importance of HACCP-based food safety management procedures, understanding how to manage the implementation of HACCP-based food safety management procedures and understanding how to develop and evaluate HACCP-based food safety management procedures

1. An Introduction to HACCP and Its Role in Food Safety Control
2. Preparations and Planning to Achieve Effective Food Safety
3. Hazards, Their Significance, and Control
4. Prerequisites for Food Safety: PRPs and Operational PRPs
5. Designing Food Safety
6. How to Do a HACCP Study
7. Implementation, Verification, and Maintenance for Ongoing Risk Management
8. Considerations for HACCP Application in Different Supply Chain Sectors
9. HACCP: Definitions and Principles
10. Overview of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Hazards
11. Hazard Analyses and Assignment of Risk Categories
12. Determining Critical Control Points
13. Establishing Critical Limits for Critical Control Points
14. Monitoring Critical Control Point Critical Limits
15. Corrective Action Procedures for Deviations from the
16. Recordkeeping Systems for Documenting the HACCP Plan
17. Verification of the HACCP Program
18. Control Points and Critical Control Points
19. HACCP Systems in Regulatory Inspection Programs: Case Studies
20. Understand the importance of HACCP based food safety management procedures Legislation relating to HACCP
21. The development requirements of the HACCP team
22. The importance of effective communication
23. Staff training needs
24. The prerequisites for HACCP
25. Food production processes including use of end product
26. Process flow diagrams
27. Hazards and risks in the production process
28. Verification and review of procedures
29. Documentation and record keeping procedures