Name: Implementing a Food Defence Plan (TACCP)
Price: 1750.00 ZAR
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About Course

This is the practical course. It does not explain what food defence is and leave you there: it takes you through building a working threat assessment and food defence plan, line by line, using the same method and the same scoring discipline an auditor will test you against.

You will work on a real method, not a theoretical one. The course is built on the RA02 Food Defence (TACCP) risk assessment approach, grounded in PAS 96:2026, the fifth edition of the BSI guide published in May 2026, and in the FSSC 22000 food defence guidance, including clause 2.5.3 and the eleven questions auditors are told to ask.

What you will be able to do at the end

Build a Food Defence Team with the right people on it, and collect the site information every score has to be defensible from.
Write a threat scenario that can actually be scored, instead of one that describes a worry.
Score attractiveness, vulnerability and impact separately, derive the likelihood the way the workbook does, and read the rating off the bands.
Build proportionate mitigation across deter, deny, detect and respond, and across the six kinds of measure PAS 96 recognises.
Re-score the residual position honestly, and recognise a residual score that has been faked.
Set verification that tests behaviour rather than paperwork, and run the review triggers, incident response and horizon scanning around it.
Decide what an auditor sees and what stays confidential.

How it is assessed

Module 4 is a graded practical. You are given a full site brief for a chilled ready meals manufacturer and asked to score four actor and access point pairings, online, in the browser. Nothing about the case study can be downloaded or copied, so the work has to be yours.

Your submission is marked, and you receive coaching notes rather than a memorandum: notes telling you what to look at again, attached to the specific pairing they belong to. You then get a second attempt. A human facilitator can see your full submission and the reasoning behind every mark, so if you disagree with something or a note does not make sense, there is a person to ask. Once your second attempt is marked, your own completed, marked threat assessment is yours to download. It is the only thing in the course that is downloadable.

Who it is for

Food safety and quality practitioners, technical managers, HACCP and food defence team members, internal auditors and consultants who have to produce or defend a food defence plan. You do not need to be employed on a site to complete it: every activity works against the course case study as well as against your own site.

Four modules, twenty three lessons, three knowledge checks, four games and the graded practical. Approximately six hours.

Build a Food Defence Team with the right roles on it, and collect the site information every score has to be defensible from.
Write a threat scenario that can actually be scored, rather than one that describes a worry.
Score attractiveness, vulnerability and impact separately, and derive the likelihood the way the workbook does.
Build proportionate mitigation across deter, deny, detect and respond, and across the six kinds of measure PAS 96:2026 recognises.
Re-score the residual position honestly, and recognise a residual score that has been faked.
Set verification that tests behaviour rather than paperwork, and run the review triggers and incident response around it.
Decide what an auditor sees and what stays confidential, and test your plan against the eleven questions auditors are told to ask.

Course Content

Module 1: Getting Ready to Build a Threat Assessment
The thinking that has to be right before a single line is scored: why a threat is not a hazard, who sits on the Food Defence Team, and the nine things to collect first.

1.1 Why a Threat Assessment Is Not a Hazard Analysis
1.2 Building the Food Defence Team
1.3 Collecting Your Site Information Before You Start
1.4 The Rhythm the Plan Runs On: Plan, Do, Check, Act
Module 1 Knowledge Check

Module 2: Scoring the Threat: Actors, Access Points and the Three Factors
The scoring method itself, worked end to end: six actors, fourteen access points, three factors, the derived likelihood, and a scenario that will hold up in an audit.

2.1 The Six Threat Actors and Fourteen Access Points
2.2 Three Levels of Threat: Organisation, Operations and Product
2.3 Scoring Attractiveness, Vulnerability and Impact
2.4 Deriving Likelihood and the Threat Rating
2.5 Worked Example: The Disgruntled Employee at the Open Line
2.6 Writing a Scenario an Auditor Will Accept
Game: Name the Threat Actor
Game: Deter, Deny, Detect or Respond?
Module 2 Knowledge Check

Module 3: From Score to Plan: Mitigation, Residual Risk and Verification
Turning scores into a plan that survives contact with an auditor: proportionate mitigation, honest residual scoring, verification that tests behaviour, and the review triggers.

3.1 Building Proportionate Mitigation in Four Layers
3.2 The Residual Scoring Discipline
3.3 Verification That Actually Tests the Plan
3.4 The Action Tracker and Review Triggers
3.5 When It Happens Anyway: Incident Response and Business Continuity
3.6 Confidentiality, and the Eleven Questions an Auditor Will Ask
Game: Would It Survive the Auditor?
Game: Which Factor Moved?
Module 3 Knowledge Check

Module 4: Practical Assessment: the Mzansi Fresh Meals Threat Assessment
The graded practical. Read the site brief, score four pairings online, submit for marking, work your coaching notes, re-attempt, and leave with your own completed threat assessment.

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Course Content

Module 1: Getting Ready to Build a Threat Assessment The thinking that has to be right before a single line is scored: why a threat is not a hazard, who sits on the Food Defence Team, and the nine things to collect first.

1.1 Why a Threat Assessment Is Not a Hazard Analysis

1.2 Building the Food Defence Team

1.3 Collecting Your Site Information Before You Start

1.4 The Rhythm the Plan Runs On: Plan, Do, Check, Act

Module 1 Knowledge Check

Module 2: Scoring the Threat: Actors, Access Points and the Three Factors The scoring method itself, worked end to end: six actors, fourteen access points, three factors, the derived likelihood, and a scenario that will hold up in an audit.

2.1 The Six Threat Actors and Fourteen Access Points

2.2 Three Levels of Threat: Organisation, Operations and Product

2.3 Scoring Attractiveness, Vulnerability and Impact

2.4 Deriving Likelihood and the Threat Rating

2.5 Worked Example: The Disgruntled Employee at the Open Line

2.6 Writing a Scenario an Auditor Will Accept

Game: Name the Threat Actor

Game: Deter, Deny, Detect or Respond?

Module 2 Knowledge Check

Module 3: From Score to Plan: Mitigation, Residual Risk and Verification Turning scores into a plan that survives contact with an auditor: proportionate mitigation, honest residual scoring, verification that tests behaviour, and the review triggers.

3.1 Building Proportionate Mitigation in Four Layers

3.2 The Residual Scoring Discipline

3.3 Verification That Actually Tests the Plan

3.4 The Action Tracker and Review Triggers

3.5 When It Happens Anyway: Incident Response and Business Continuity

3.6 Confidentiality, and the Eleven Questions an Auditor Will Ask

Game: Would It Survive the Auditor?

Game: Which Factor Moved?

Module 3 Knowledge Check

Module 4: Practical Assessment: the Mzansi Fresh Meals Threat Assessment The graded practical. Read the site brief, score four pairings online, submit for marking, work your coaching notes, re-attempt, and leave with your own completed threat assessment.

4.1 Meet Mzansi Fresh Meals and Your Brief

4.2 Guided Walkthrough: Scoring the Perimeter Together

4.3 The Graded Threat Assessment: Score the Mzansi Fresh Meals Pairings

4.4 Submit for Marking

4.5 Reading Your Coaching Notes and Re-attempting

4.6 Getting Help From a Facilitator

4.7 Course Close-out: Your Completed Assessment and Next Steps

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Module 1: Getting Ready to Build a Threat Assessment
The thinking that has to be right before a single line is scored: why a threat is not a hazard, who sits on the Food Defence Team, and the nine things to collect first.

Module 2: Scoring the Threat: Actors, Access Points and the Three Factors
The scoring method itself, worked end to end: six actors, fourteen access points, three factors, the derived likelihood, and a scenario that will hold up in an audit.

Module 3: From Score to Plan: Mitigation, Residual Risk and Verification
Turning scores into a plan that survives contact with an auditor: proportionate mitigation, honest residual scoring, verification that tests behaviour, and the review triggers.

Module 4: Practical Assessment: the Mzansi Fresh Meals Threat Assessment
The graded practical. Read the site brief, score four pairings online, submit for marking, work your coaching notes, re-attempt, and leave with your own completed threat assessment.