Validation, monitoring and verification of food safety management systems

Overview

This practical one-day course provides food safety professionals with the knowledge and skills to effectively validate, monitor and verify food safety control measures. Through real-world examples and interactive exercises, delegates will learn how to demonstrate that controls for microbiological, allergen and physical hazards are scientifically effective, consistently applied and delivering the intended food safety outcomes.
The course includes a step-by-step approach to validation, covering validation methods, thermal processes, allergen controls, cleaning validation, metal detection, X-ray systems and other physical hazard controls. Delegates will also learn how to establish effective monitoring programmes, determine monitoring frequencies, develop verification plans and use verification results to drive continual improvement.
Ideal for quality managers, food safety team leaders, technical personnel and auditors, this course provides practical tools, templates and guidance that can be immediately applied to strengthen food safety management systems and support audit readiness.

Progress Excellence Approach

• Discovering the validation, monitoring and verification requirements from various international standards.
• Step-by-step approach to validation
• Use  of activities to entrench learning
• Sharing best-practice approaches
• Highlighting aspects that will allow delegates to improve their validation, monitoring and verification systems.

The course will equip delegates with the following:

• Clarifying the differences between validation, monitoring and verification
• Outlining and explaining the validation process step-by-step
• Detail on the validation of specific control measures (microbiological, allergens and foreign matter)
• Validation report contents
• Key aspects related to make monitoring successful
• How to build an effective verification system
• Understand how to use verification data within the organisation in such a way that they can indicate trends for focused improvements.

The course is best suited to the following audiences:

• Quality/Technical Manager
• Department Managers from any department, e.g. Engineering, Quality, Production, R&D/NPD
• Staff who will be involved in design of validation, monitoring and verification protocols

Delegate assessment will be in the form of:

• Full course attendance
• Successful completion of an assessment (pass mark 70%).