Contribute to the maintenance of compliance in improving food and drink operations
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to contribute to the maintenance of organisational compliance to support your organisation's drive to improve food and drink operations. This is important to increasing productivity and success of manufacture, processing and supply within the food and drink supply chain. Contribution is typically provided through working in a team, although this does not exclude individual contributions from outside of close working teams.
You will need to show and understand how you can comply with all relevant regulations that apply to your work area and provide information, data and related specifications to support compliance in your role. You also need to show and understand how you can make recommendations for improving compliance in response to change which may impact on your work area. You will need to comply with your company policy for compliance, take responsibility for your contribution, and refer any issues outside of the limit of your authority to others.
This standard is for you if you contribute to the maintenance of compliance working in food and drink operations including, manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities. You may have responsibilities for maintaining and improving quality in the workplace, with either autonomous or operationally restricted responsibilities.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Comply with regulations in your work area
1. identify the relevant regulations which apply to your work area
2. access information about the relevant regulations and establish organisational requirements
3. wear the relevant personal and protective clothing in accordance with procedures
4. use equipment in accordance with procedures
5. apply safe working practices in accordance with Standard Operational Procedures
6. confirm to the relevant personnel that the control of risks is effective
7. report potential risks and hazards to the relevant personnel
8. identify learning needs where individuals need support to meet compliance standards and report to the relevant personnel
Make recommendations for improving compliance
9. identify opportunities for improving compliance to meet organisational needs
10. source and identify the requirements of the food safety management system
11. collate relevant information, data and resources to support potential improvements in accordance with the improvement plan
12. make valid recommendations about improving compliance to the relevant personnel
13. use relevant measures of plant effectiveness and improvement to inform recommendations in accordance with procedures
14. refer any issues outside the limit of your authority to the relevant personnel
15. check and confirm that your recommendations meet organisational requirements
Obtain and provide feedback on compliance
16. seek feedback on the value of your contribution to compliance from the relevant personnel
17. check current compliance levels and targets in accordance with procedures
18. provide feedback on your contribution to compliance to the relevant personnel
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- the responsibilities of yourself and others under health and safety at work and associated regulations
- what the specific health and safety regulations and organisational procedures require of you in your role and working area
- the responsibilities of yourself and others under food safety and associated regulation
- how to locate regulatory information and workplace procedures
- process or product specific procedures in your work area that are customer focussed compliance requirements to meet internal or external standards
- what is sufficient to constitute a workplace hazard, dangerous occurrence and hazardous malfunction
- your responsibilities to deal with hazards and reduce risk in the workplace
- what the procedures are for identifying and controlling risk by monitoring, inspection, assessment and reporting
- what the first aid arrangements and procedures are
- what the emergency fire and evacuation procedures are
- what the safe lifting and handling procedures are
- what the best methods are for formulating recommendations
- how to present recommendations
- the limits of your own authority, and reporting arrangements in the event of problems that you cannot resolve
- the formal and informal communication channels used and which to use dependent on the situation