3072 Report on food safety compliance in food and drink operations
SCQF Level 6 Credit value 6
Unit Summary
This unit is about internal audit of the food safety management procedures. It involves reporting on food safety management procedures to ensure that they comply with your organisation's operational requirements.
You will need to be able to identify areas within the audit findings where improvements can be made and report findings and trends to the people in your organisation.
This unit is for you if you work in food and drink operations or animal feed operations and your job requires you to have responsibilities for food safety, control and/or audit. You may have responsibilities for managing an operational team.
In order to be assessed as competent you must demonstrate to your assessor that you can consistently perform to the requirements set out below. Your performance evidence must include at least one observation by your assessor.
You must be able to:
You need to show:
Evidence must be work-based, simulation alone is only allowed where shown in bold italics
1. Report and evaluate internal audits undertaken
This means you:
Specify the scope of the audit conducted, including areas and activities audited
Evaluate the audit results against the organisation’s quality and food safety system, relevant standards and best practice
Evidence of reporting and evaluating internal audits undertaken as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.
2. Identify food safety risks evidenced through the audit process
This means you:
Provide details of areas and activities where the food safety management system is working effectively
Provide details of occurrences of non-compliance with the food safety management procedures and/or food safety standards
Provide support evidence using data and documentation
Identify the relative risks and impact of non-compliance to your organisation
Evidence of identifying food safety risks evidenced through the audit process as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.
3. Develop a plan for corrective action
This means you:
Agree with colleagues and technical staff the corrective action required
Develop a timescale for the implementation of actions to ensure compliance
Brief staff on the immediate action required to manage potential food safety risks
Evidence of developing a plan for corrective action as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.
4. Record audit findings and details of restorative action
This means you:
Verify that preventative and corrective action is part of the auditing process
Compile data to identify long term audit trends
Circulate audit reports to key contacts according to organisational procedures
Evidence of recording audit findings and details of restorative action as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.
You need to know and understand:
Evidence of knowledge and understanding should be collected during observation of performance in the workplace. Where it cannot be collected by observing performance, other assessment methods should be used.
The type, range and purpose of records applicable to the specified food safety management system
The audit processes and procedures applied within the organisation
What represents Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) within the organisation
The critical points and critical control points relevant to the defined scope of the audit
The roles, responsibilities and levels of authority of members in the food safety management team
The expected role and responsibilities of an auditor
The relevant regulations, legal requirements and certification requirements for the type and nature of operations being inspected
Statutory regulations relating to operations under inspection
The expected standards and their effective application
What constitutes non-compliance and the relative implications for food safety and for the organisation concerned
Relevant corrective actions and how to review their effectiveness
Auditing practices, including 2nd and 3rd party inspections
Recording, reporting procedures and making recommendations relating to quality control and internal audits
Evidence of performance may employ examples of the following assessment:
observation
written and oral questioning;
evidence from company systems (e.g. Food Safety Management System)
reviewing the outcomes of work
checking any records of documents completed
checking accounts of work that the candidate or others have written
3072 Report on food safety compliance in food and drink operations
SCQF Level 6 Credit value 6
Unit Summary
This unit is about internal audit of the food safety management procedures. It involves reporting on food safety management procedures to ensure that they comply with your organisation's operational requirements.
You will need to be able to identify areas within the audit findings where improvements can be made and report findings and trends to the people in your organisation.
This unit is for you if you work in food and drink operations or animal feed operations and your job requires you to have responsibilities for food safety, control and/or audit. You may have responsibilities for managing an operational team.
In order to be assessed as competent you must demonstrate to your assessor that you can consistently perform to the requirements set out below. Your performance evidence must include at least one observation by your assessor.
You must be able to:
You need to show:
Evidence must be work-based, simulation alone is only allowed where shown in bold italics
1. Report and evaluate internal audits undertaken
This means you:
Specify the scope of the audit conducted, including areas and activities audited
Evaluate the audit results against the organisation’s quality and food safety system, relevant standards and best practice
Evidence of reporting and evaluating internal audits undertaken as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.
2. Identify food safety risks evidenced through the audit process
This means you:
Provide details of areas and activities where the food safety management system is working effectively
Provide details of occurrences of non-compliance with the food safety management procedures and/or food safety standards
Provide support evidence using data and documentation
Identify the relative risks and impact of non-compliance to your organisation
Evidence of identifying food safety risks evidenced through the audit process as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.
3. Develop a plan for corrective action
This means you:
Agree with colleagues and technical staff the corrective action required
Develop a timescale for the implementation of actions to ensure compliance
Brief staff on the immediate action required to manage potential food safety risks
Evidence of developing a plan for corrective action as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.
4. Record audit findings and details of restorative action
This means you:
Verify that preventative and corrective action is part of the auditing process
Compile data to identify long term audit trends
Circulate audit reports to key contacts according to organisational procedures
Evidence of recording audit findings and details of restorative action as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.
You need to know and understand:
Evidence of knowledge and understanding should be collected during observation of performance in the workplace. Where it cannot be collected by observing performance, other assessment methods should be used.
Evidence of performance may employ examples of the following assessment: