Food Quality & Safety Officer

About Course

Build practical skills to help food businesses maintain consistent quality and protect consumers. This course prepares learners to support quality checks and food safety procedures from receiving raw materials to storing and dispatching finished products.
Learners will practice inspecting materials and packaging, checking hygiene procedures, identifying potential contamination risks and documenting findings. The course introduces good manufacturing practices, hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP), batch traceability and corrective actions. Learners will also explore how to follow product specifications and identify the requirements relevant to their products and markets.
Designed for aspiring quality and safety officers, food processing staff and agribusiness employees, this course develops skills in inspection, documentation and supporting safer food operations.

Course Content

Module 1: Understand the role and make a defensible decision
Separate food quality, food safety and evidence, then define your responsibilities and approval route.

Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Understand the role and make a defensible decision
Lesson 3: Visual guide: Quality and Safety
Lesson 4: Read the practical role guide
Lesson 5: Portfolio practice: A role brief and a hold/escalation decision map
Lesson 6: Discussion

Module 2: Build good hygiene into everyday work
Use good hygiene practices to examine people, layout, utilities, pests, maintenance and access.

Module 3: Check suppliers, receipts and laboratory evidence
Inspect incoming material using approved specifications, traceable sampling and correctly matched evidence.

Module 4: Manage cleaning, sanitation and allergen changeovers
Connect cleaning instructions, practical monitoring, verification and change control without treating appearance as proof.

Module 5: Control the process and trust the measurement
Read approved process controls, storage requirements and instrument checks, and respond to missing or unreliable measurements.

Module 6: Support a product-specific HACCP study
Prepare product information, confirm the process flow and support the seven HACCP principles under competent leadership.

Module 7: Handle deviations, holds and corrective actions
Contain affected material, preserve evidence, investigate causes and verify action effectiveness before authorised closure.

Module 8: Trace lots and run a useful mock recall
Reconcile material movements, identify destinations and track confirmed control without confusing these measures.

Module 9: Audit the system and control its documents
Prepare a focused audit, write evidence-based findings and manage versions, corrections and verified closure.

Module 10: Report clearly, support culture and use AI carefully
Choose balanced role measures, connect findings to actions and use AI only within a checked evidence workflow.

Module 11: Build a truthful portfolio and prepare for the role
Connect job duties to evidence, test a practical SOP and prepare a CV and interview explanation without inventing experience.

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Course Content

Module 1: Understand the role and make a defensible decision Separate food quality, food safety and evidence, then define your responsibilities and approval route.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Understand the role and make a defensible decision

Lesson 3: Visual guide: Quality and Safety

Lesson 4: Read the practical role guide

Lesson 5: Portfolio practice: A role brief and a hold/escalation decision map

Lesson 6: Discussion

Module 2: Build good hygiene into everyday work Use good hygiene practices to examine people, layout, utilities, pests, maintenance and access.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Build good hygiene into everyday work

Lesson 3: Visual guide: Hygiene Routes

Lesson 4: Portfolio practice: A hygiene walk-through and zoning sketch

Lesson 5: Discussion

Module 3: Check suppliers, receipts and laboratory evidence Inspect incoming material using approved specifications, traceable sampling and correctly matched evidence.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Check suppliers, receipts and laboratory evidence

Lesson 3: Practical screen demonstration: Build a receiving-inspection record in Google Forms

Lesson 4: Visual guide: Certificate Match

Lesson 5: Use the receiving exercise

Lesson 6: Portfolio practice: A tested receiving record and supplier-evidence checklist

Lesson 7: Discussion

Module 4: Manage cleaning, sanitation and allergen changeovers Connect cleaning instructions, practical monitoring, verification and change control without treating appearance as proof.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Manage cleaning, sanitation and allergen changeovers

Lesson 3: Visual guide: Control Evidence

Lesson 4: Portfolio practice: A cleaning-control record and allergen change-review note

Lesson 5: Discussion

Module 5: Control the process and trust the measurement Read approved process controls, storage requirements and instrument checks, and respond to missing or unreliable measurements.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Control the process and trust the measurement

Lesson 3: Visual guide: Monitoring Denominators

Lesson 4: Portfolio practice: A monitoring-plan row and an instrument-check review

Lesson : 5 Discussion

Module 6: Support a product-specific HACCP study Prepare product information, confirm the process flow and support the seven HACCP principles under competent leadership.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Support a product-specific HACCP study

Lesson 3: Visual guide: HACCP Study

Lesson 4: Read the hazard-study explanation

Lesson 5: Portfolio practice: A confirmed process-flow draft and a hazard-analysis support table

Lesson 6: Discussion

Module 7: Handle deviations, holds and corrective actions Contain affected material, preserve evidence, investigate causes and verify action effectiveness before authorised closure.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Handle deviations, holds and corrective actions

Lesson 3: Visual guide: Process and Product

Lesson 4: Write and test a hold procedure

Lesson 5: Portfolio practice: A nonconformity record, hold log and tested disposition route

Lesson 6: Discussion

Module 8: Trace lots and run a useful mock recall Reconcile material movements, identify destinations and track confirmed control without confusing these measures.

Lesson 1: Introduction:

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Trace lots and run a useful mock recall

Lesson 3: Practical screen demonstration: Summarise lot movements with an Excel PivotTable

Lesson 4: Visual guide: Lot Mass Balance

Lesson 5: Visual guide: Linkage and Control

Lesson 6: Portfolio practice: A lot genealogy, mass-balance reconciliation and mock-recall status brief

Lesson 7: Discussion

Module 9: Audit the system and control its documents Prepare a focused audit, write evidence-based findings and manage versions, corrections and verified closure.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Audit the system and control its documents

Lesson 3: Visual guide: Audit Closure

Lesson 4: Portfolio practice: An audit plan, finding record and controlled-document register

Lesson 5: Discussion

Module 10: Report clearly, support culture and use AI carefully Choose balanced role measures, connect findings to actions and use AI only within a checked evidence workflow.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Report clearly, support culture and use AI carefully

Lesson 3: Visual guide: Reporting and Action

Lesson 4: Choose useful role measures

Lesson 5: Portfolio practice: A one-page management brief, role scorecard and AI review log

Lesson 6: Discussion

Module 11: Build a truthful portfolio and prepare for the role Connect job duties to evidence, test a practical SOP and prepare a CV and interview explanation without inventing experience.

Lesson 1: Introduction:

Lesson 2: Watch and practise: Build a truthful portfolio and prepare for the role

Lesson 3: Choose a role by its duties

Lesson 4: Review your SOP evidence

Lesson 5: Prepare your CV and interview

Lesson 6: Portfolio practice: An indexed portfolio, targeted CV and tested SOP

Lesson 7: Discussion:

Module 1: Understand the role and make a defensible decision
Separate food quality, food safety and evidence, then define your responsibilities and approval route.

Module 2: Build good hygiene into everyday work
Use good hygiene practices to examine people, layout, utilities, pests, maintenance and access.

Module 3: Check suppliers, receipts and laboratory evidence
Inspect incoming material using approved specifications, traceable sampling and correctly matched evidence.

Module 4: Manage cleaning, sanitation and allergen changeovers
Connect cleaning instructions, practical monitoring, verification and change control without treating appearance as proof.

Module 5: Control the process and trust the measurement
Read approved process controls, storage requirements and instrument checks, and respond to missing or unreliable measurements.

Module 6: Support a product-specific HACCP study
Prepare product information, confirm the process flow and support the seven HACCP principles under competent leadership.

Module 7: Handle deviations, holds and corrective actions
Contain affected material, preserve evidence, investigate causes and verify action effectiveness before authorised closure.

Module 8: Trace lots and run a useful mock recall
Reconcile material movements, identify destinations and track confirmed control without confusing these measures.

Module 9: Audit the system and control its documents
Prepare a focused audit, write evidence-based findings and manage versions, corrections and verified closure.

Module 10: Report clearly, support culture and use AI carefully
Choose balanced role measures, connect findings to actions and use AI only within a checked evidence workflow.

Module 11: Build a truthful portfolio and prepare for the role
Connect job duties to evidence, test a practical SOP and prepare a CV and interview explanation without inventing experience.