Manage compliance to support improvement in food and drink operations
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to manage organisational compliance to support your organisation's drive to improve food and drink operations. Managing organisational compliance is important in increasing productivity and success of manufacture, processing and supply within the food and drink supply chain. Compliance is critical where the implementation of change, improvement, new practice, targets and a performance driven culture creates challenges for individuals and the dynamic of teams.
You will need to show and understand how you and your team or colleagues can comply with all relevant regulations that apply to your managed area and provide information, data and related specifications to support compliance in your role. You also need to show and understand that you can make recommendations for improving compliance in response to change which may impact on your management responsibilities. You will need to comply with your company policy for compliance, take responsibility for your actions, and refer any issues outside of the limit of your authority to others.
This standard is for you if you manage workplace organisational compliance working in food and drink operations including manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities. You may have responsibilities for aspects of organisational improvement in a team leadership or management role.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- how to manage the responsibilities of yourself and others under health and safety at work regulation and associated regulation
- what the specific health and safety regulations and organisational procedures require of you in your management role and working area
- how to manage the responsibilities of yourself and others under food safety regulation and associated regulation
- what the specific food safety regulations and organisational procedures require of you in your management role and working area
- how to go about contributing to the improvement of food safety procedures
- how to locate regulatory information and workplace procedures
- how to manage 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 management responsibilities to deal with hazards and reduce risk in the workplace
- what your management responsibilities and procedures are for identifying and controlling risk by monitoring, inspection, assessment and reporting
- what responsibilities you have for first aid arrangements and procedures
- what responsibilities you have for emergency fire and evacuation procedures
- what responsibilities you have for safe lifting and handling procedures
- what the best methods are for formulating recommendations and implementing change
- how to present recommendations and implement change for compliance
- how to give and receive feedback regarding your contribution to Standard Operational Procedure development
- the formal and informal communication channels used and which to use dependent on the situation
- the limits of your own authority, and reporting arrangements in the event of problems that you cannot resolve