BRC Food Safety Americas

Training Courses

To enhance the learning opportunities available at BRC Food Safety Americas 2013, the BRC is running a number of comprehensive and interactive training courses. The content of each course will act to compliment the Conference sessions; optimizing each individual’s educational experience at the event.

Course	Date & Time	Conference Attendee	Non-Conference Attendee
BRC HACCP	Monday April, 8 09.00-17.00	$275	$325
Root Cause Analysis in Practice	Tuesday April 9 08.30-12.30	$175	$225
How to Implement a Risk Assessment System	Tuesday April 9 08.30-12.30	$175	$225
Validation and Verification	Thursday April, 11 13.30-17.30	$175	$225

BRC HACCP - Monday April, 8th, 09.00 – 17.00

This course is designed to reflect the requirements of Food Issue 6 with regards to the implementation of an HACCP system. This course will introduce delegates to BRC requirements, quality systems, HACCP and the background to HACCP, BRC and Codex. It gives the International requirements for HACCP and how these apply to businesses of all types and sizes.

Contents:
• State BRC requirements in relation to HACCP
• Describe the background to HACCP, BRC and Codex
• Explain the importance of management commitment and prerequisite programmes
• Define the preparatory stages to the development of a HACCP plan
• Explain the HACCP principles and terminology
• Identify the benefits of HACCP and the reasons HACCP may fail

Root Cause Analysis in Practice - Tuesday April, 9th, 08.30 – 12.30

The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 6 now identifies the significance and importance of Root Cause Analysis and this program will allow delegates to understand the requirements of the Standard. Delegates will gain an understanding of the key clauses of the Standard that require the effective application of Root Cause Analysis and will learn various methods for carrying out this procedure and how to prevent the re-occurrence of non-conformities.

Contents:
• Defining Root Cause Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis and the Standard
• The importance of Root Cause Analysis
• Different methods to undertake Root Cause Analysis
• Perform a Root Cause Analysis

How to Implement a Risk Assessment System - Tuesday April, 9th, 08.30 – 12.30

This course has been designed to help delegates to understand the principles of risk assessment, the systematic evaluation of hazards and an assessment of the likely exposure during use or foreseeable use.

Contents:
• Identify where the BRC demands Risk Assessment
• Learn what the BRC expects from Risk Assessment
• Application of different Risk Assessment models against common BRC non-conformities

Validation and Verification - Thursday April, 11th, 13.30 – 17.30

This course explains the two elements of validation and verification, their importance, when they should be applied and introduces techniques to conduct both these elements in line with current guidelines.

Content:
• Fully understand the difference between the two terms
• Understand where to use each in relation to the Standard
• Understand that the same metric may be used to both validate and then later verify a control.
• Understand through a series of worked examples what level is required to validate activities identified in the standard

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