Service Overview

This qualification is intended to provide learners, who have a good understanding of food safety, with the essential practical knowledge to enable them to assist in the implementation of a HACCP system based on CODEX principles. Building on the Highfield Level 2 HACCP qualification, emphasis has been placed on understanding how to develop and implement Codex HACCP based procedures, in addition to understanding the importance of HACCP, the preliminary processes involved in developing HACCP procedures and the verification of these procedures.
This qualification is intended for those employed in the manufacturing industry or in other sectors of the food industry that require knowledge about the implementation of Codex HACCP.

Description

This is to support centres whose client would require specific titles for recognition purposes – centres will be able to pick which title is best applicable. All the rest of the qualification details are as below.

Who is this qualification for?

This qualification is intended to provide learners, who have a good understanding of food safety, with the essential practical knowledge to enable them to assist in the implementation of a HACCP system based on CODEX principles. Building on the Highfield Level 2 HACCP qualification, emphasis has been placed on understanding how to develop and implement Codex HACCP based procedures, in addition to understanding the importance of HACCP, the preliminary processes involved in developing HACCP procedures and the verification of these procedures.

This qualification is intended for those employed in the manufacturing industry or in other sectors of the food industry that require knowledge about the implementation of Codex HACCP.

How long will it take?

The qualification can be delivered over 13 hours.

Topics covered

The topics covered in this qualification are:

importance of CODEX based HACCP procedures
preliminary processes for CODEX based HACCP procedures
knowledge and understanding of how to develop, implement, validate, verify and review CODEX based HACCP procedures
Assessment method

This qualification is assessed by a multiple-choice examination.


Learning Outcomes
1. Understand the importance of CODEX based HACCP procedures
1.1 Identify the need for CODEX based HACCP procedures
1.2 Identify the 7 principles of HACCP
1.3 Identify the Codex 12 logical steps for HACCP
2. Understand the preliminary processes for CODEX based HACCP procedures
2.1 Identify the requirements of a HACCP team
2.2 Outline the pre-requisites for CODEX based HACCP
2.3 Explain the purpose of accurately describing food production processes
2.4 Describe the process and benefits of developing the process flow diagrams
3. Understand how to develop CODEX based HACCP procedures
3.1 Outline how to conduct hazard analysis
3.2 Outline the purpose of, and methods to determine, critical control points and control points
3.3 Identify methods to establish critical (safe) limits
4. Understand how to implement CODEX based HACCP procedures
4.1 State how monitoring procedures at critical control points can be established, implemented, used, and recorded
4.2 Identify the importance of effective corrective actions
5. Understand how to verify CODEX based HACCP procedures
5.1 Outline validation, verification and review procedures
5.2 Identify documentation and record keeping procedures for CODEX HACCP