Food Defence Awareness

How do your operatives contribute to these assessments?

Make sure your operatives are aware of on-site and raw material threats

This course is aimed at a non-technical audience with the objective of spreading the message of what food defence is and how individuals contribute to this.

Delivered on-site this course covers the controls needed for raw materials and on-site threats which the wider team need to be aware of.

Why choose us?

Our course is packed full of interaction and site specific exercises to challenge thinking and develop competency. We have developed and published our own methodology for the assessment of threats and vulnerabilities, which is recognised by leading retailers in our Food Defence: Creating TACCP & VACCP assessments course

Course content:

What is food defence?
Why do we need food defence?
Your own raw materials controls
Your own on-site controls
Involving others and developing a food defence mind-set

Duration:

2-3 hours

Aimed at:

Non-technical team such as production, goods-in, NPD, procurement, security, human resources, IT and engineering

Assessment method:

No formal assessment, certificate of attendance

Certificated by:

Adele Adams Associates Ltd

Course options:

In-house course for up to 12 delegates

Delivery methods

Live Online Training using a remote trainer – ideal for working at home or on-site
Face-to-face classroom-based training at your site

See what customers say about

our Food Defence courses

Very informative and enjoyable

All aspects were good and helpful. Very informative & enjoyable course

Paul Jones

Arla Foods

Course Attended:Food Defence

Amazing course

Amazing course. Very informative, plenty of practical examples. Good mix of theory, practical exercises and case studies

Artem Trufanov

Jones Food Compnay

Course Attended:Food Defence

Great insight into best practices

The course was excellent, insightful and well delivered. A great insight into best practices of the world of Food Defence / Threat Assessment.

Learnt a lot and gave some thought to existing gaps in processes

Ben Simms

Innocent Drinks

Course Attended:Food Defence

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