Elements and Performance Criteria
- Evaluate organisational requirements for food safety program.
- Evaluate organisational characteristics that impact on food safety.
- Examine food handling operations and processes and identify potential or existing food hazards.
- Identify critical control points in food preparation system where food hazards and contaminants must be controlled.
- Identify product suppliers and determine quality assurance specifications for foodstuffs supplied.
- Evaluate existing product specifications for food items prepared and sold.
- Evaluate existing policies and procedures and monitoring practices, including record keeping, and assess need for change.
- Develop food safety program to control hazards.
- Identify and consult with stakeholders in program development.
- Integrate regulatory requirements and standards into policies and procedures.
- Establish and document critical control points and control methods for each point.
- Develop procedures for systematic monitoring of controls and associated record keeping.
- Develop corrective action procedures for uncontrolled hazards.
- Develop or modify and record product specifications covering food items prepared and sold.
- Identify training needs and develop training program.
- Develop schedule for regular review of food safety program.
- Document food safety program and provide to regulatory authorities as required.
- Implement food safety program.
- Communicate food safety programs, policies, procedures and product specifications to colleagues and ensure display of appropriate signage and access to information.
- Organise appropriate training and mentoring.
- Monitor operational activities to ensure that policies and procedures are followed.
- Manage response to incidents of uncontrolled food hazards and oversee implementation of corrective action procedures.
- Make changes to practices that led to the food safety breach, and document, communicate and implement changes.
- Maintain food safety management documents.
- Participate in food safety audit.
- Evaluate and revise food safety program.
- Conduct scheduled review of food safety program in consultation with colleagues.
- Validate required food safety controls.
- Review policies, procedures, product specifications, monitoring systems and record keeping methods, and revise as required.
- Prepare and document amended food safety program and provide to regulatory authorities as required.
- Communicate changes and monitor inclusion in production processes.
- Identify and respond to additional training needs based on changes to food safety practices.