Name: Food Storage and Distribution: Cold Chain, Dry Goods and Warehousing (Intermediate)
Price: 1795.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock

About Course

Food that leaves your dock safe can arrive unsafe. This intermediate course is for warehouse, dispatch, transport, cold store and QA people who keep food safe and legal between the factory and the customer in South Africa.

You work through a full distribution centre case, Mzansi Fresh Meals in Pinetown, from the cold room to the customer: cold chain management, dry goods, frozen, chilled and hot food distribution, inland versus coastal climate risks, storage facilities and stacking, vehicles, and health and safety.

What you will be able to do

Apply R638 storage and transport rules, including Annexure E temperatures, the 2 °C surface rule and Annexure G probing
Run a cold chain that holds from dispatch to delivery, and handle an excursion or power failure properly
Store and move dry goods without moisture, mould, pests or taint
Choose the right vehicle and load it for airflow and security
Plan for the coast and the Highveld: humidity, condensation, altitude, frost and heat
Meet GSR 8 stacking, forklift, cold stress and road traffic duties
Build a storage and distribution risk assessment for your own site or a case study

27 lessons, 8 knowledge checks, 8 games, 14 diagrams, a practical workshop and assignment, and a final assessment. About 11 hours, on any phone. 70% to pass every assessment, three attempts each.

Training your floor team?

Food Storage and Distribution Basics covers the same cold chain for receiving clerks, pickers, forklift operators, cold store workers and drivers in 5 hours, for R899 a person.

Related courses

This course covers the law and the daily practice of running stores, cold rooms and delivery fleets. If your site is certified, or wants to be, add the scheme course for your managers:

Introduction to BRCGS Storage and Distribution Issue 4 (6 hours, R1 195)
BRCGS Storage and Distribution Issue 4 for Management (4 hours, R1 195)
FSSC 22000 Version 7 for Transport and Storage (12 hours, R5 500)
Food Quality Controller Fundamentals: Retail, DC and Wholesale (15 hours, R1 750)

Not sure which you need? See food storage and distribution training for a side-by-side guide.

Course Content

Module 1: Storage and distribution: the risks and the law
Where storage and distribution sit in the food chain, what goes wrong between the factory door and the customer’s dock, and which South African laws and voluntary standards apply to it.

1.1 Where storage and distribution sit in the food chain
1.2 Hazards and risks in storage and distribution
1.3 The legal map: laws, specifications and standards
M1 Knowledge check: Storage and distribution: the risks and the law
M1 Game: Law, standard or myth?

Module 2: Cold chain management
How the cold chain works and where it breaks, the legal temperature limits in R638 Annexure E, how to measure and record food temperature properly, and what to do when temperature control fails.

Module 3: Distributing dry goods
Dry goods look forgiving, but damp, pests, taint and damage cause most of the losses and complaints in an ambient store. Most of it can be stopped at the receiving door, in the racking or on the back of the truck.

Module 4: Distributing temperature-sensitive food: frozen, chilled and hot
Frozen, chilled and hot food each fail in a different way on the road. For each one you get the risks, the packaging, the vehicle, how to load it and what to check at dispatch and on receipt.

Module 5: Inland versus coastal: climate, humidity and temperature
The same product, truck and procedure behave differently in Pinetown and in Midrand. Humid coastal air and the high, dry, hot or freezing interior each do their own damage to food, packaging, vehicles and buildings, and your stores, docks and routes have to cope with both.

Module 6: Storage facilities, storage requirements and stacking
What a food store must have under R638, how to lay it out and run it from day to day, and how to stack and rack stock so nothing gets crushed or falls. The examples come from the Mzansi Fresh Meals distribution centre in Pinetown.

Module 7: Distribution vehicles
Choosing the right vehicle for each product, keeping it clean, inspected and pre-cooled, and loading it so cold air reaches every carton and the load stays on the vehicle.

Module 8: Health and safety in storage and distribution
Keeping people safe in the warehouse, the cold store, on the dock and on the road, using the OHS Act and its regulations alongside the food safety controls you already run.

Module 9: Practical workshop and final assessment
Put the whole course to work: build a storage and distribution risk assessment for a real or case study site, score it, link it to the law and turn it into actions your manager will sign off.

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Course Content

Module 1: Storage and distribution: the risks and the law Where storage and distribution sit in the food chain, what goes wrong between the factory door and the customer’s dock, and which South African laws and voluntary standards apply to it.

1.1 Where storage and distribution sit in the food chain

1.2 Hazards and risks in storage and distribution

1.3 The legal map: laws, specifications and standards

M1 Knowledge check: Storage and distribution: the risks and the law

M1 Game: Law, standard or myth?

Module 2: Cold chain management How the cold chain works and where it breaks, the legal temperature limits in R638 Annexure E, how to measure and record food temperature properly, and what to do when temperature control fails.

2.1 What the cold chain is and where it breaks

2.2 Temperature categories and the legal limits

2.3 Measuring, monitoring and records

2.4 Excursions, breakdowns and power failures

M2 Knowledge check: Cold chain management

M2 Game: Pass, fail or probe?

Module 3: Distributing dry goods Dry goods look forgiving, but damp, pests, taint and damage cause most of the losses and complaints in an ambient store. Most of it can be stopped at the receiving door, in the racking or on the back of the truck.

3.1 Dry goods and their hazards

3.2 Receiving, storing and dispatching dry goods

3.3 Loading and transporting dry goods

M3 Knowledge check: Distributing dry goods

M3 Game: Load it or leave it

Module 4: Distributing temperature-sensitive food: frozen, chilled and hot Frozen, chilled and hot food each fail in a different way on the road. For each one you get the risks, the packaging, the vehicle, how to load it and what to check at dispatch and on receipt.

4.1 Frozen food distribution

4.2 Chilled food distribution

4.3 Hot food distribution

M4 Knowledge check: Distributing temperature-sensitive food: frozen, chilled and hot

M4 Game: Ship it or stop it

5.1 The coastal problem: humidity, condensation, mould and salt air

5.2 The inland problem: altitude, heat, frost, dust and distance

5.3 Planning routes and stores across climate zones

M5 Knowledge check: Inland versus coastal: climate, humidity and temperature

M5 Game: Coast or Highveld?

Module 6: Storage facilities, storage requirements and stacking What a food store must have under R638, how to lay it out and run it from day to day, and how to stack and rack stock so nothing gets crushed or falls. The examples come from the Mzansi Fresh Meals distribution centre in Pinetown.

6.1 What a food storage facility must have

6.2 Storage requirements: running the store every day

6.3 Stacking and racking

M6 Knowledge check: Storage facilities, storage requirements and stacking

M6 Game: Pass or fail the store

Module 7: Distribution vehicles Choosing the right vehicle for each product, keeping it clean, inspected and pre-cooled, and loading it so cold air reaches every carton and the load stays on the vehicle.

7.1 Types of vehicles and when to use each

7.2 Vehicle hygiene, inspection and pre-cooling

7.3 Loading for airflow and securing loads

M7 Knowledge check: Distribution vehicles

M7 Game: Right truck, right load

Module 8: Health and safety in storage and distribution Keeping people safe in the warehouse, the cold store, on the dock and on the road, using the OHS Act and its regulations alongside the food safety controls you already run.

8.1 Warehouse safety

8.2 Cold store and refrigeration safety

8.3 Driver and road safety

M8 Knowledge check: Health and safety in storage and distribution

M8 Game: Safe shift or stop work

Module 9: Practical workshop and final assessment Put the whole course to work: build a storage and distribution risk assessment for a real or case study site, score it, link it to the law and turn it into actions your manager will sign off.

9.1 Building a storage and distribution risk assessment

9.2 Workshop briefing and the assignment

Storage and distribution risk assessment workbook

Final assessment