BRC Food Fraud training

Vulnerability assessment for food fraud – 8 hours – BRC accredited training

Purpose

To provide manufacturers with an in-depth and practical understanding of Vulnerability Assessment for Food Fraud tools and techniques, and how they can be applied in a practical manner relevant to the delegate’s industry sector.

Target Audience:

The course is aimed at purchasing, technical and manufacturing staff from sites currently certificated to BRCGS Standard for Food Safety, who need to become familiar with the principles and practices of Vulnerability Assessment techniques.

Course Pre-Requisites:

Delegates should have read and reviewed the latest version of the Global Standard for Food Safety. This is available to download free of charge from the BRCGS Bookshop (www.brcgsbookshop.com), or hard copies (with integral guide) are available to purchase from the BRCGS bookshop. They should bring a copy with them to the training course.

COURSE OUTLINE:

This 8 hours course will provide delegates with a thorough understanding of vulnerability assessment for food fraud and enable them to use techniques to better identify and mitigate risks associated to raw materials in the supply chain.

This is particularly useful when implementing product safety management systems and the requirements of the BRCGS Global Standards on site.

AT THE END OF THE COURSE YOU WILL:

• Understand vulnerability      assessment requirements for BRCGS.
• Understand what is meant by the      term 'food fraud'.
• Be able to identify the      difference between vulnerability assessment, threat analysis critical      control point and food defence.
• Be able to assess the raw      materials most vulnerable to food fraud.

Course assessment

To pass the course each learner will need to undertake a Vulnerability Assessment at their place of work. The workplace Vulnerability Assessment needs to be submitted within 1 month of completing the course. The pass mark for the course is 75%. Should the delegates fail the workplace audit assessment then they can submit one more Vulnerability Assessment. Should they fail the second workplace audit then they need to re-sit the course.