Summary
The purpose of this course is to provide the skills and knowledge required to identify and analyse threats to the food supply chain and areas of vulnerability to food fraud and utilise them to develop and implement food defence plans and food fraud mitigation plans.
This course has been designed to give you a thorough understanding of TACCP, VACCP, their components and how to successfully document and implement both threat and vulnerability assessments in your food business.
Implementing VACCP and TACCP is an on-demand course which has been designed to give you a fundamental understanding of the principles of VACCP and TACCP. It also provides you with a basic overview of how to perform both threat and vulnerability assessments in your food business.
Description
This course covers:
- Identifying different types of threats in your food business
- Determining vulnerability points in the food supply chain
- Conducting VACCP assessments
- Conducting TACCP assessments
- Developing mitigation strategies to prevent threats and vulnerabilities
- Documenting VACCP and TACCP plans for your food business
Learning Outcomes
By the completion of this training participants should be able to:
- Explain the difference between VACCP, TACCP and HACCP
- Identify key compliance requirements stipulated by major 3rd party certification standards and global regulations
- Demonstrate the correct use of the threat and vulnerability assessment frameworks
- Undertake and document a threat assessment
- Undertake and document a vulnerability assessment
- Specify the methods of controlling food fraud vulnerabilities
- Select appropriate food defence mitigation strategies
- Identify required records and supporting documentation in accordance with key standards and/or regulations
- Nominate when a review of the VACCP and TACCP plan is required
Prerequisite
This course is suited to participants who have an understanding of how the production process works within their business.
Who should attend
This training is suitable for all food personnel including production and service employees, food safety supervisors, HACCP team members, QA professionals, food auditors, administration support, food consultants, contractors and senior management. This is a great course to develop your VACCP and TACCP knowledge.
Award
AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES
A Certificate of Competency will be provided after you have successfully completed this course (including the knowledge assessment). The criteria to earn a Certificate of Competency and corresponding CEUs for this course includes:
- Successfully completing each of the course lessons, topics, activities and final assessment
- Achieving a pass mark of 70% or more on the final knowledge assessment
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS
0.6 CEU (or 6 hours equiv.)
HACCP Mentor is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). HACCP Mentor complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, HACCP Mentor is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.
Details
COURSE LEVEL: Intermediate
DURATION: 6 hours
FORMAT: This is a self-paced online course that you can start at any time. Automatic access is provided after successful registration and payment.
ACCESS EXPIRY: You will have 12 months access to this course before it expires.
LANGUAGE: English Text, Closed Captions (Notes) and Voice Over
REGISTRATION PROCESS: After course registration, you will receive an email with access instructions. This will include your access user name and password. You will also receive and email with a copy of your order and a PDF copy of your purchase receipt. If you do not receive this information, please check your email junk, spam, or clutter folders. If the email is not there, please contact us by clicking here.
CERTIFICATE ACCESS: You will have access to an electronic course certificate and training transcript on successful completion.
EXPECTATIONS: You can access student rights and course expectations by clicking here
MULTI-USER ACCESS: Need a multi-user access? Click here to learn more.
This course has been personally developed by Amanda Evans-Lara who is a qualified trainer and auditor with over 20 years’ experience in food safety.
Technology
This training is delivered online. You can view our courses on any devices that support the following browsers. This includes mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Android-enabled phones and tablets.
Windows
– Google Chrome (latest version)
– Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based, latest version)
– Firefox (latest version)
Mac
– Google Chrome (latest version)
– Safari (latest version)
– Firefox (latest version)
Mobile
– Safari in Apple iOS/iPadOS (latest version)
– Google Chrome (latest version) in Apple iOS/iPadOS (latest version)
– Google Chrome (latest version) in Android OS 6 or later
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