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HACCP Refresher

HACCP Refresher Training keeps your HACCP skills up-to-date and refreshes HACCP knowledge for Food Operators, Quality Officers, and QA Managers.

Course Cost: NZD $540 +GST

About HACCP Refresher Training

HACCP Refresher Training keeps your HACCP skills up-to-date and refreshes HACCP knowledge for Food Operators, Quality Officers, and QA Managers.

Demonstrate understanding of a HACCP application for a food processing operation.

  • Course Duration: 5 hours
  • Delivery: LIVE Online Video Conference Training
  • Recognised Achievement Certificate, non-unit Standard

HACCP Refresher Training Course Content

Trainees credited with this certificate are able to:

  • Identify, review and prioritize food safety controls based on case study reviews and FSANZ & MPI food recall data for the past 10 years
  • Gain an understanding of Good Manufacturing Practice – GMP to Regulatory (MPI) and Global Codex Standards
  • Explain the elements for the application of 12 Codex Alimentarius Steps including 7 Principles of HACCP principles to achieve food safety
  • Understand the role of supporting programs (PRP/SOP) and how they support a HACCP plan.
  • Explain the types and sources of hazards (MCPAN+) relevant to food safety and their controls in processing
  • Explain GHP, Hygiene and Illness Management eg. Norovirus & COVID-19 management

What else do our trainees refresh their understanding of?

  • How to conduct a hazard analysis and use a Risk Matrix
  • How the Codex critical control processes (CCP) decision tree works
  • What are the technical definitions and meanings of both HACCP validation & verification
  • How to Assess the adequacy of corrective actions and the preventative action (CAPA) for a non-conformance (NC)
  • When and how to review HACCP plans

HACCP Refresher Content Summary

Our Refresher HACCP Training in New Zealand satisfies FAO Codex Alimentarius, MPI, FSANZ, FDA, BRCGS, WSE, SQF, FSSC 22000 and GFSI recognized program requirements.

What is Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point – HACCP meaning?

HACCP is a system that allows a food company to deal with important food safety issues yourself.
It requires answers to key questions about the safety of the food that you produce or handle:

  • What type of business am I involved in?
  • What are the food safety hazards associated with my business? What causes those hazards?
  • How can I control or remove those hazards?
  • How can I show that I have controlled or removed those hazards?
  • What will I do if things go wrong?

At Food Safe, our HACCP Training all three generic food safety hazard groups PLUS more:

  • Microbiological Hazards:
    Any bacterium, virus, or protozoan that is capable of causing illness and that grows or may be carried on food. Well-known examples of bacteria are Campylobacter, Listeria, and Salmonella. The most likely food-borne viruses are Hep-A and Noro-type viruses. Giardia is an example of a protozoan that may be food-borne. It is important to have some understanding of the risks associated with different types of microbiological hazards.
  • Chemical Hazards:
    Examples include excessive or toxic amounts of heavy metals, chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, vitamins, minerals, preservatives, disinfectants, detergents, and cleaning compounds. Some hazards may be naturally present such as in green potatoes or taro and rhubarb leaves.
  • Physical Hazards:
    Objects that get into food, or are already present in food, may cause illness, injury or distress to the person eating it. Some examples are glass, metal fragments etc. Other contaminants such as hair or insects must be considered and controlled.

Other hazards included in our training are:

  • Allergenic hazards
  • Nutritional hazards
  • Labeling hazards
  • Regulatory hazards
  • Radiological hazards

What makes the HACCP system globally accepted?

A HACCP-based food safety management system is the best approach to managing food safety risks across the global food supply chain. It is scientifically peer-reviewed and is accepted by Codex Alimentarius. Most regulators around the world such as MPI, FDA, EFSA, CFDA/NMPA, FSSAI, and certification agencies such as International HACCP Alliance, GFSI, and BRCGS recognize HACCP. HACCP is also recognized as part of customer food safety certification standards such as Woolworths supplier excellence programWSE.

What are the Seven Principles of HACCP?

Food Safe’s training includes a refresher of the Codex Alimentarius steps and the seven principles of HACCP:

  • Principle 1: Identify food safety hazards eg. Microbiological, Physical and Chemical hazards
    • Complete the hazard analysis by listing all the potential hazards associated with each process step.
    • Identify significant (CCP/oPRP) and lower risk hazards (PRP/SOP)
    • Identify food safety control measures
  • Principle 2: Determine the Critical Control Point (CCP)/points/quality points eg. Heat treatment
  • Principle 3: Establish critical limits that are validated for each CCP/oPRP/PRP/QP eg. 75°C/167°F for at least 30 seconds – Source: MPI
  • Principle 4: Establish a Monitoring System 
  • Principle 5: Establish Corrective Actions
  • Principle 6: Establish Verification Procedures
  • Principle 7: Establish Documentation and Record-Keeping
  • Review the HACCP Plan

How often is a refresher HACCP training certification required?

Refresher HACCP training courses are recommended annually for high-risk manufacturers such as pharmaceutical, nutritional and infant formula plants.

For other food businesses, HACCP refresher training is recommended once every three years. This helps trainees keep up to date with current good manufacturing practice (cGMP), changes in regulations eg FSMA, overseas market access requirements (OMAR), and supplier requirements such as WSE.

Refresher HACCP Training Course Resources

An Introduction to HACCP: Source: Ministry for Primary Industries – MPI

About your trainer

Food Safe’s HACCP Training Courses are delivered by Food Safe’s Managing Director, Lead-trainer & Food Safety Expert, Keith Michael who holds:

Keith has presented papers at the Food Safety Conferences in 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022 and bring this cross-sector learning into training.

Keith has many years of experience as a company director where he has assisted companies with Food Safety Compliance, Risk Audit, and closing of gaps identified with smart purpose-built competency training.

View Keith’s profile on LinkedIn.

Keith Michael Food Safe

About Food Safe

Food Safe Ltd is Accredited by the New Zealand Government + is a Category 1 NZQA-Registered PTE. Training complies with the New Zealand food legislation, Food Safety Bylaws, Verifier Audits and regulatory requirements right across New Zealand.

Our training is trusted by both well known New Zealand and Global food companies and heaps of small teams too!

Food Safe’s advisory committee includes leading experts, quality and compliance managers, and governance experts. For even more information about Food Safe, our upcoming courses and the companies we work with, click here.

Why Choose us for your Training?

  • We have collaborated and delivered training for a number of performance-fuelled organizations and global brands.
  • The information we provide you on HACCP is the very latest.
  • Learn in an engaging and interactive environment
  • We use slides, pictures, and a show-me-how approach to our training which suits all learner types
  • Food Safe Trainers are industry experts and have extensive practical experience in high-compliance areas, which we bring to the classroom.

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