Intermediate Certificate in Hazard Analysis Principles and Practice

INTERMEDIATE CERTIFICATE IN HAZARD ANALYSIS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE Entry Requirements
Students should have a broad understanding of food safety issues in advance of attending this programme. It is therefore strongly recommended that students have previously successfully completed the Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate course or equivalent.
Description
The need to adopt preventative strategies in the preparation of food to ensure its safety has increasingly become the focus of good practice and regulatory requirements. This course will assist proprietors of food businesses to operate more safely and meet the requirements of current legislation by introducing a rational and realistic system of analysis.
Course Content
· Introduction to Hazard Analysis system
· Hazard Analysis Principles
· Differences between control points and critical control points
· Suitable flow charts describing the process
· General requirements for 'hazard analysis' contained within the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995
· Hazard Analysis in practice

Where a course is aimed towards an assessment/examination, it is expected that all students will enter for the qualification.
Method of Assessment
Case study assessment carried out under exams conditions.
Progression
Level 3 Award in Food Safety.