ISO 20001 gap assessment

Score your site, or Mzansi Fresh Produce, against every clause of the Harmonized Structure and the food loss and waste topics of ISO 20001. The tool builds the gap list, the readiness score and a workbook you can keep for your own management review. Your work is kept in this browser until you clear it. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Step 1. The site and the assessor

Site or organisation

Assessed by

Date of assessment

What the site does

How to score. 0 Not in place. 1 Partly in place: something exists but it does not meet the requirement. 2 In place: the core of the requirement is met and you can show the document or record. Write any shortfall in the evidence box and give it an action. 3 Effective: in place, and you can show results from it. Score what you can show today, not what you intend. Write the evidence you looked at, or what is missing.

No site of your own? Load Mzansi Fresh Produce, the course case study. It fills the site details, the scores and evidence from the 13 October 2026 assessment, the seven objectives and the six surplus streams. The owners, dates, interim actions and hierarchy decisions are left for you, because those are the work.

Step 2. Clauses 4 to 7: context, leadership, planning, support

Step 3. Clause 8 and the food loss and waste topics

The topics marked T are the FLW-specific requirements that sit after 8.1 in ISO 20001 and run through the other clauses. Check their exact numbers and wording in your copy of the standard.

Step 4. Clauses 9 and 10: evaluation and improvement

Step 5. The gap list

Every item scored 0 or 1 is a gap. Give each one an owner, a target date and the action that closes it. Every item scored 0 also needs an interim action: what the site does now, until the gap is closed.

Step 6. Objectives and surplus streams

Objectives (at least three)

Each objective needs a baseline value, a target value, a unit and a date. Write the values, not only the percentage.

Objective	Unit	Base year	Baseline	Target	Target date	Owner

Surplus streams

Route each stream to the highest rung of the hierarchy it can safely reach, and give the reason in one sentence. Prevention first: if a stream should not exist, say so.

Stream	Quantity	Hierarchy rung	Reason

Step 7. Readiness and the workbook

The workbook is yours to keep. Nothing is uploaded: the three timed practical stages at the end of the course test the same checks on the case study.

ASC Food Safety Consultants. Built for Implementing ISO 20001:2026 at ascfoodsafetytraining.com. The clause list is the ISO Harmonized Structure. Requirements are summarised in ASC’s words: use your own copy of ISO 20001 for the exact text.