FOOD SAFETY TRAINING
Food safety training to improve competencies in food safety management Intertek understands the importance of food safety management at each step of the supply chain. Food safety standards are designed to help organisations fulfil their social responsibility to keep the consumer safe. Rika Kemp, lead auditor at Intertek explains the importance of ensuring that you are always up-to-date with the latest food safety requirements.
A
s market demand increases,
Your food safety management system
system implementation, compliant with set
global food safety requirements
should contribute to the bottom line of your
requirements and to improve knowledge
become more stringent as a
company. Through effective competency
and understanding to such an extent that
result. To keep up with ever-changing
and training programmes, this can be
effective implementation is possible.
requirements, Intertek has developed a vast
achieved. Having a training partner that has
Their training sessions are presented by
range of services to support the various
got the end goal in mind plays an important
subject matter experts who are experienced
stakeholders in the food industry. This
role in ensuring your training is relevant and
facilitators respected for their knowledge in
includes Intertek’s well-recognised and
effective, not just in the classroom, but also
the respective fields and this makes these
sought-after training programmes.
when implemented.
sessions both practical and engaging. The
"To keep up with ever-changing requirements, Intertek has developed a vast range of services to support the food industry."
Generally, training schedules
standard courses are kept current with
are prepared to comply with
legislation, regulations and standards’
audit requirements. The relevant
requirements, and are known for beneficial
standards for management systems
outcomes. The popular courses range from
(food safety, health and safety,
entry level courses like Basic Food Hygiene
quality, environmental, cosmetics
to more advanced levels such as Food Safety
and many more) list the training
Management Systems Lead Auditor Training.
element with the aim to improve
Intertek offers several options of
competencies, a resource required
delivering training throughout Sub-Saharan
for the effective implementation of
Africa such as face-to-face public courses,
any system. Resources such as time,
online and hybrid courses. Courses can be
competencies, work environment and
presented at your facilities if required and
infrastructure all contribute towards
they can also be customised to address your
the effective implementation of a
specific needs.
management system. Intertek’s Training Academy,
Training is your skill gap solution. To quote John Kennedy, “Leadership and learning are
which was established in 2014,
indispensable to each other.”
has always aimed to improve
Contact: cindy.correira@intertek.com •
the competencies of delegates across several disciplines. Their
Intertek – www.intertek.com
goal is to contribute to effective
INTERTEK SERVICES FOOD SAFETY Intertek Academy helps you understand, implement, and improve your business with management systems and compliance training. Our expertise covers international and regional regulatory developments, customer and legal compliance requirements, good manufacturing practices, quality management systems certification and more
OUR TRAINING COURSE SCHEDULE FS209 FS212 FS205 FS201 FS106 FS301 FS108
Food Microbiology Management Food Fraud & Food Defence FSMS Internal Auditing Implementation of PRP’s & GMP’s Intro to HACCP FSMS Lead Auditor Intro to FSMS Regulations & Standards
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