Understand how to manage food safety procedures in food and drink operations
Overview
This standard is about understanding the principles of food safety management procedures. It involves completing your work activities with due regard to monitoring critical control points and contributing to continuous improvement of food safety management procedures.
You will need to know and understand the role of food safety management systems in food and drink operations and how they can be applied to ensure that food and drink is produced consistently and safely.
This standard is for you if you work in food and drink operations or animal feed operations and your job requires you to enter the food manufacturing or processing area. You may have supervisory responsibilities as a line manager or team leader.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
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IMPFS110S Monitor food safety at critical control points in food and drink operations
IMPFS111S Contribute to continuous improvement of food safety in food and drink operations
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- what food safety management procedures and food safety management systems are and why it is important to have them in place
- what continuous improvement is and why it is important to contribute to the improvement process
- the concept of food safety management procedures and how they are applied within the organisation
- the concept of threat analysis and how it can be applied within the organisation
- what critical control points, control points, critical limits and relevant variance are
- why it is important to monitor critical control points and control points, and how to do so
- your responsibilities under your food safety management procedures, including the critical control points relating to your work activity
- the impact of variance at critical control points and control points on food safety, public health and your organisation
- the type and frequency of checks that you should perform to control food safety within your work activities, and how to obtain verification of those checks
- how to interpret and use specifications and standard operating procedures
- the reporting procedures when control measures fail
- the records required for controlling food safety and how to maintain them
- how traceability works and why it is important to food safety
- the impact that failure to have effective traceability measures can have on public health and on the business
- types and methods of corrective action to reduce, control or eliminate food safety hazards