ASC Food Safety Training

Reducing Food Loss and Waste for Sustainable Manufacturing

Wishlist Share

About Course

A measured number is not a reduced one. This course turns your baseline into money found, a policy that survives an audit, and a programme that runs without you standing over it.

You can measure food loss and waste perfectly and still lose exactly as much of it next year, because measuring is not the same job as reducing. This course is the second job: finding the causes worth fixing, costing them properly, writing objectives that pass a Version 7 audit, routing surplus to donation and animal feed without a food safety incident, and putting the number in front of the reporting frameworks that are starting to ask for it.

It runs on the same case study as Courses 1 and 2: a vegetable freezing plant in Tzaneen. Here you turn that plant’s measured baseline into a ranked hotspot list, a business case a finance manager signs, a policy and objectives register an auditor cannot fault, and a donation and animal feed programme with the controls FSSC 22000 clause 2.5.16 b and c actually require. A practical workshop then has you build the funded programme and the management review pack for a line of your own.

For employers and QA managers

  • Money found, not just measured. The intervention list and business case built in this course are how a measured baseline turns into a funded reduction target a finance manager signs off on.
  • A policy and objectives register an auditor cannot fault. Clause 2.5.16 a asks for a policy, a base year, objectives and a prevention plan. This course builds all four, and the evidence pack an auditor asks for against 2.5.16 a to d.
  • Donation and animal feed done safely. The surplus decision route and the controls under 2.5.16 b and c, with traceability that survives a mock recall, so surplus product moves without becoming a food safety incident.
  • Written by an auditor. Mthokozisi Nkosi, ASC’s founder and an FSSC 22000 and BRCGS lead auditor, built this course from what he sees on site.
  • Teams of five or more: contact us for a team rate and one invoice.

For learners

Special offer: R1400 instead of R1995. Enrol today and start your first lesson in two minutes.

Enrol now, R1400 (normally R1995)

Questions people ask before they enrol

Who is this reducing food loss and waste course for?
QA and technical managers, FSMS implementers and sustainability officers in South African food manufacturing who need to turn a measured figure into a funded reduction programme and an audit ready policy.

Do I need to complete Courses 1 and 2 first?
Course 2, Measuring Food Loss and Waste, is recommended since this course builds directly on a measured baseline, but this course defines its own terms and can stand alone.

How long does it take?
About eight hours in total including the quizzes and the workshop. It works on any phone and you can stop and continue later.

What is the practical workshop?
Two further hands on sittings plus a closing lesson: you turn a baseline into a ranked, costed, root caused intervention list and a complete objectives register, assemble the clause by clause evidence pack and a management review input, then plan the first ninety days of the programme at your own site.

Does this help with FSSC 22000?
Yes. FSSC 22000 additional requirement 2.5.16 is the only GFSI benchmarked scheme requirement that asks a site to reduce food loss and waste, and this course builds the policy, objectives, prevention plan and evidence pack that 2.5.16 a to d actually require, including the donation and animal feed controls under 2.5.16 b and c. BRCGS Food Issue 9 clause 4.12 and 4.13 and SQF clause 11.8 deal with waste handling, which the course also covers.

Is there a certificate?
Yes. Everyone who passes every quiz and the final assessment at 70 percent receives a Certificate of Achievement with a QR code and verification ID that anyone can check online.

What does it cost?
R1400 per learner on the current special, normally R1995. Payment is by card or EFT through PayFast. Enrol five or more and contact ASC for a team rate and one invoice.

Part of these course pathways: Food waste champion courses. All pathways

What Will You Learn?

  • Turn a stage table into a ranked hotspot list, and tell a hotspot from a critical loss point
  • Separate a cause from a driver, run a root cause analysis that lands on the driver, and cost a lost kilogram properly
  • Build an intervention list with capital cost, expected reduction, confidence and payback, and write the one page business case that gets it funded
  • Write a food loss and waste policy and an objectives register that satisfy clause 2.5.16 a, with a defensible base year and a metric that cannot be met by selling less
  • Build the prevention plan and the monitoring plan underneath each objective, and take the whole thing through management review
  • Run the surplus decision route and apply every control clause 2.5.16 b and c requires for donation and animal feed, with traceability that survives a mock recall
  • Explain the environmental burden of a wasted kilogram, and produce the numbers FSSC, ESRS E5, GRI 306 and a retailer scorecard each ask for from one dataset
  • Apply packaging design and shelf life and date marking as food loss levers without weakening food safety

Course Content

Start here

  • Welcome, and how this course works

Module 1: Finding the causes and finding the money
You have a measurement. This module turns it into a ranked list of places to attack, a cause you can actually fix, a rand value that survives contact with a finance manager, and a one page business case that gets signed.

Module 2: Policy, objectives and targets that survive an audit
The module the certification depends on. A policy that covers the supply chain half of clause 2.5.16 a, a base year you can defend, a metric that cannot be met by selling less, an objectives register with a baseline, a number, a unit, an owner and a date on every line, the prevention plan underneath it, the monitoring plan that feeds it, and the management review that turns it into a decision.

Module 3: Surplus, donation, animal feed and by-product value
Where food safety and food loss reduction meet. This module runs the surplus decision route, builds the donation and animal feed controls that FSSC 22000 clause 2.5.16 b and c actually require, keeps traceability across both, states the South African legal position honestly, and shows you which by-product opportunities pay and which ones never will.

Module 4: The sustainability picture, and the reports that need your numbers
The factory number, connected to the environment it came out of and to the frameworks that will ask for it. One dataset answers FSSC, ESRS E5, GRI 306, a retailer scorecard and a national target. Then the two technical levers that sit on the boundary between food safety and sustainability: packaging design under FSSC Version 7, and shelf life.

Module 5: The practical workshop: find the money and take it home
Two further hands on sittings plus a closing lesson, on the course case study. You turn a baseline into a ranked, costed, root caused intervention list and a complete objectives register, assemble the clause by clause evidence pack and a management review input, then plan the first ninety days of the programme at your own site.

Course assessment and Feedback
Proctored. Pass mark 70 percent, two attempts.

Student Ratings & Reviews

No Review Yet
No Review Yet
🎉 ASC Food Safety Training turns 8! Celebrate with a birthday discount — use code ASC8YEARS at checkout 🎈 🎊 Limited-time 8 Years Special — code ASC8YEARS — shop the course catalogue now ✨ 🎉 ASC Food Safety Training turns 8! Celebrate with a birthday discount — use code ASC8YEARS at checkout 🎈 🎊 Limited-time 8 Years Special — code ASC8YEARS — shop the course catalogue now ✨ 🎉 ASC Food Safety Training turns 8! Celebrate with a birthday discount — use code ASC8YEARS at checkout 🎈 🎊 Limited-time 8 Years Special — code ASC8YEARS — shop the course catalogue now ✨ 🎉 ASC Food Safety Training turns 8! Celebrate with a birthday discount — use code ASC8YEARS at checkout 🎈 🎊 Limited-time 8 Years Special — code ASC8YEARS — shop the course catalogue now ✨

Want to receive push notifications for all major on-site activities?

✕
🎂 8 Years
Special! ASC8YEARS