Food safety training

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.

As market demand increases, global food safety requirements become more stringent as a result. To keep up with ever-changing requirements, Intertek has developed a vast range of services to support the various stakeholders in the food industry. This includes Intertek’s well-recognised and sought-after training programmes.

Your food safety management system should contribute to the bottom line of your company. Through effective competency and training programmes, this can be achieved. Having a training partner that has got the end goal in mind plays an important role in ensuring your training is relevant and effective, not just in the classroom, but also when implemented.

Generally, training schedules are prepared to comply with audit requirements. The relevant standards for management systems (food safety, health and safety, quality, environmental, cosmetics and many more) list the training element with the aim to improve competencies, a resource required for the effective implementation of any system. Resources such as time, competencies, work environment and infrastructure all contribute towards the effective implementation of a management system.

Intertek’s Training Academy, which was established in 2014, has always aimed to improve the competencies of delegates across several disciplines. Their goal is to contribute to effective system implementation, compliant with set requirements and to improve knowledge and understanding to such an extent that effective implementation is possible.

Their training sessions are presented by subject matter experts who are experienced facilitators respected for their knowledge in the respective fields and this makes these sessions both practical and engaging. The standard courses are kept current with legislation, regulations and standards’ requirements, and are known for beneficial outcomes. The popular courses range from entry level courses like Basic Food Hygiene to more advanced levels such as Food Safety Management Systems Lead Auditor Training.

Intertek offers several options of delivering training throughout Sub-Saharan Africa such as face-to-face public courses, online and hybrid courses. Courses can be presented at your facilities if required and they can also be customised to address your specific needs.

Training is your skill gap solution. To quote John Kennedy, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

Contact: cindy.correira@intertek.com •