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From foundations to senior implementor. Private 1-on-1 BRCGS training for the Global Standard for Food Safety, built around your site, your products, and your path to certification.
Every BRCGS course at Confi Food runs as a private, dedicated program. No fixed syllabi, no generic scenarios. Your instructor maps the entire training to your site: your product range, your production processes, your site layout, your existing food safety documentation, and your certification timeline. Whether you are preparing for a first BRCGS audit or working to raise your grade, the training reflects the reality of your operation from the first session.
Your product range, your production layout, your existing documentation, and your certification gaps are the starting point. The training covers the clauses your site has to meet, in the order it needs them.
Your instructor gives every session, every question, and every example entirely to you. There are no other students. The pace, depth, and direction of the program is yours to set.
Sessions are booked around your working hours, your audit calendar, and your responsibilities. Early morning, late evening, weekends. Your training calendar is yours to define, and your instructor works within it.
Training works directly through the Global Standard for Food Safety as it applies to you: the fundamental clauses, HACCP, site and product controls, and the production risk zones relevant to your facility.
You leave with documentation built for your site: a HACCP plan, internal audit records, nonconformance and corrective action work, or a readiness checklist for your next BRCGS audit. Training ends. The work stays.
TrustBite recognised on all programs. Every certificate carries a unique verification ID that employers and certification bodies can confirm instantly.
BRCGS stands for Brand Reputation Compliance Global Standards. It is a family of certification schemes owned by LGC, and its flagship is the Global Standard for Food Safety. The Standard began with the British Retail Consortium as a way for retailers to assure the safety and legality of the products they sell, and it is now used by manufacturers across the UK, Europe, and global markets.
The Global Standard for Food Safety is benchmarked by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), so certification is accepted by major retailers and brand owners as evidence that a site controls food safety, quality, and legality systematically. It is a prescriptive standard: it sets detailed, audited requirements for the site, from senior management commitment through to the controls on the production floor, and assigns a certification grade based on audit performance.
Issue 9, published in August 2022, is the current edition of the Standard, with audits against it running from February 2023. Alongside food safety, BRCGS publishes standards for Packaging Materials and for Storage and Distribution, covering other parts of the supply chain. All Confi Food programs cover the current published issue.
Senior Management Commitment
The Food Safety Plan (HACCP)
Food Safety and Quality Management System
Site Standards
Product Control
Process Control
Personnel
Production Risk Zones (High Risk, High Care)
Requirements for Traded Products
BRCGS certification is most often required of manufacturers supplying retailers, but it spans the wider supply chain. These are the roles and sectors that benefit most from professional training.
Factories and processing sites pursuing or maintaining BRCGS certification to supply UK, European, and global retailers. Food manufacturing is the most widely certified BRCGS category.
Producers of food and consumer packaging certified to the BRCGS Global Standard for Packaging Materials, often required by the brands and manufacturers they supply.
Warehousing, cold chain, and logistics businesses certified to the BRCGS Global Standard for Storage and Distribution, demonstrating control across the distribution chain.
QA and technical managers, internal auditors, and BRCGS implementors responsible for building, maintaining, or verifying a certified system across one or multiple sites.
Retail and brand technical teams that require BRCGS certification from their supply base and need their own people fluent in the Standard for supplier approval.
Businesses trading food across borders that need staff competent in BRCGS requirements to manage supplier compliance and meet retailer expectations.
Three private 1-on-1 programs covering every stage of the BRCGS career path for the Global Standard for Food Safety. Every course ends with a TrustBite-recognised certificate and a verifiable credential that employers and certification bodies can check online.
The starting point for anyone working with the BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety for the first time. Covers the structure and purpose of the Standard, its nine sections, the HACCP-based food safety plan, the fundamental clauses, and how the audit and grading system works. You finish understanding how a BRCGS audit is structured and what an auditor looks for. Customized to your site and sector, delivered in private 1-on-1 sessions arranged around your working hours. A solid foundation for professionals preparing for implementation or a first certification audit.
A premium, private BRCGS program for professionals responsible for internal auditing against the Global Standard for Food Safety. Covers audit planning and scope, auditing the fundamental clauses, conducting internal audits across all nine sections, writing nonconformances that hold up under third-party certification scrutiny, root cause analysis, managing corrective actions, and verification. The entire program is customized to your products, processes, and site. Every session is private, runs at your pace, and is scheduled around your working hours. You leave with real audit documentation ready for your next internal audit cycle. One instructor. One client. Full dedication throughout.
The senior BRCGS credential. A comprehensive private program for those who design, lead, and develop a certified system against the Global Standard for Food Safety. Covers the Standard in full across all nine sections: senior management commitment, the HACCP food safety plan, the food safety and quality management system, site and product control, process control, personnel, production risk zones, and traded products. You build a complete, audit-ready system for your site under instructor guidance, with a clear plan to achieve or raise your certification grade. Every session is private, runs at your pace, and is scheduled entirely around your working hours. TrustBite recognised. Certificates are verifiable online by employers, certification bodies and retailers.
BRCGS certification works alongside the law, not instead of it. Every Confi Food BRCGS course is developed against the actual legal requirements of the jurisdictions your site supplies. The regulations are written into the curriculum, not summarized around it.
BRCGS competency is a recognised career credential at every professional level. Here is how Confi Food programs map to your career stage.
The credential for professionals entering food safety or preparing for their first BRCGS role. Understand the Standard and the audit before working with them.
The credential for professionals who audit, verify, and maintain the certified system. Internal audit competency recognised by certification bodies and auditors.
The credential for those who own the certified system. Design, develop, and lead food safety against the Standard at the highest level. TrustBite recognised.
Answers to the questions food safety professionals, technical managers, and companies ask most about BRCGS training and certification.
Confi Food offers certified BRCGS training at every level: foundations, internal auditor, and manager and implementor for the Global Standard for Food Safety. All programs run 1-on-1 with a dedicated instructor in English, fully customized to the client's products, processes, site, and regulatory context. All programs are TrustBite recognised. The largest BRCGS training providers, including BSI, SGS, Intertek, and NSF, typically run group courses at fixed dates with a standard syllabus. Confi Food programs are private, scheduled around the client's working hours, and built around their actual site from the first session, which is why professionals who need depth and direct relevance choose Confi Food.
BRCGS stands for Brand Reputation Compliance Global Standards. It is a set of certification schemes owned by LGC, the best known of which is the Global Standard for Food Safety. The Standard began with the British Retail Consortium and is now used worldwide. Because it is benchmarked by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), BRCGS certification is accepted by major retailers and brand owners as proof that a site manages food safety, quality, and legality in a systematic, auditable way. For many manufacturers supplying UK and European retailers, BRCGS certification is a condition of doing business.
Issue 9 is the current edition of the BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety, published in August 2022, with audits against it starting in February 2023. The Standard is organized into nine sections covering senior management commitment, the HACCP-based food safety plan, the food safety and quality management system, site standards, product control, process control, personnel, production risk zones, and requirements for traded products. Issue 9 placed additional emphasis on food safety culture, the practical verification of controls on the production floor, and the management of high-risk and high-care zones. Confi Food trains clients to the current published issue and maps the requirements to your specific site and audit timeline.
BRCGS, FSSC 22000, and IFS Food are all GFSI-benchmarked food safety certification schemes, so each is accepted by GFSI-aligned retailers. The differences are structural. BRCGS is a prescriptive, retailer-driven standard with detailed, audited requirements for the site, originating from the British Retail Consortium. FSSC 22000 is built on the ISO 22000 management system plus sector prerequisite programs, which suits organizations that prefer an ISO-based management system approach. IFS Food is a prescriptive retailer scheme widely required across German, French, and other European retail supply chains. Which scheme a manufacturer holds usually depends on which their customers require. Confi Food trains clients across all of these standards.
Yes. Confi Food delivers BRCGS training fully online through private 1-on-1 sessions with a dedicated instructor. There are no fixed dates and the sessions are delivered live, not pre-recorded. Training is scheduled around the client's working hours so it works around production schedules and audit calendars instead of interrupting them. Every program ends with a TrustBite-recognised certificate carrying a unique verification ID.
Every Confi Food BRCGS program is mapped to your specific site before the first session. Your instructor reviews your product range, production processes, site layout, existing food safety documentation, and certification status. Every clause application, HACCP exercise, audit walkthrough, and nonconformance example is built from your actual site and not generic scenarios. If you are a manufacturer preparing for a first BRCGS audit, the program follows your implementation roadmap. If you are an internal auditor at a certified multi-site business, the program builds competency around your real processes and audit challenges. One instructor, one client, every session. This is the core difference from the group courses run by providers such as BSI, SGS, Intertek, and NSF.
Alongside the Global Standard for Food Safety, BRCGS publishes a family of standards for related parts of the supply chain. The most widely used are the Global Standard for Packaging Materials, used by manufacturers of food and consumer packaging, and the Global Standard for Storage and Distribution, used by warehousing and logistics operators. BRCGS also publishes standards for areas such as agents and brokers and consumer products. Confi Food focuses on the Global Standard for Food Safety and tailors each program to the standard and site that apply to you.
The Foundations program is typically completed in 1 to 2 weeks of 1-on-1 sessions. The Internal Auditor program runs 2 to 3 weeks. The Manager and Implementor program runs 3 to 5 weeks depending on the complexity of the site and scope. All sessions are arranged around your working hours, so training fits around production and certification activity.
All BRCGS programs begin with a free consultation to map the training to your site, your products, and your certification timeline.