BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9 for Management Course

The audit is not won in the week before the auditor arrives. It is won in the decisions you make all year.

Technical teams usually know the clauses. Most lost grades are made somewhere else: in a production plan that leaves four minutes for an allergen changeover, in a maintenance budget deferred for a third year, in sixty agency staff hired for December and put on the line before anyone checked what the agency had trained them on. Those are management decisions, and the Standard says so plainly. The first of its twelve fundamental requirements is about senior management.

BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9 for Management is a four hour course for directors, site managers, department heads and anyone who controls money, time and priorities on a certificated food site. It explains what the Global Standard Food Safety, Issue 9, expects of you personally, how the systems you fund actually work, how an audit is graded, and how to lead the 28 day response that decides whether a certificate is issued.

What the course covers

Five modules: the Standard and what it expects of management; senior management commitment and food safety culture; the systems you are accountable for, from HACCP and internal audits to suppliers, traceability, incidents and corrective action; the audit protocol, the three levels of non conformity and the grading table; and leading the audit itself, on the day and afterwards.

Every module ends with a knowledge check and a scenario game built on decisions a manager actually faces: a week in the life of an operations director, an unannounced audit that starts at 07:12, an audit report you have to grade yourself. The final assessment is proctored and a certificate is issued on passing.

This is an independent ASC Food Safety course explaining the requirements of the Global Standard Food Safety, Issue 9, in our own words, with clause references so you can look up the exact wording in your own copy of the Standard. It is not a BRCGS course, it is not endorsed by BRCGS, and the certificate is a course completion certificate rather than a BRCGS qualification.