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Certified BRCGS Foundations

A private, fully customized introduction to BRCGS, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule. You finish understanding how BRCGS is structured and how its certification works, ready to move into implementation or your first audit.

The Certified BRCGS Foundations course gives you a working command of the retailer-driven Global Standard for Food Safety, a GFSI-benchmarked scheme: the nine sections of the BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety, the fundamental clauses, and the HACCP food safety plan. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your site and sector.

What You Will Be Able to Do

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Every trainee who completes the course is added to the TrustBite registry of certified professionals, a public directory employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people. The certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.

How It Works

What the Programme Covers

Six modules, taught live and 1-on-1 in the order below. Every module is worked through on your own site, products and markets, so the examples are yours from the first session.

  1. 1

    What BRCGS is

    The standard, its GFSI recognition, who asks for it and what the certificate means to a buyer.

  2. 2

    The structure of Issue 9

    The nine sections, the fundamental requirements and how to read a statement of intent.

  3. 3

    Commitment, the food safety plan and the quality system

    Sections 1 to 3 in outline: senior management, the HACCP based plan and document control.

  4. 4

    Site, product, process and people

    Sections 4 to 7 in outline: site standards, product control, process control and personnel.

  5. 5

    How the audit works

    Announced and unannounced options, grading, nonconformities, corrective action and how the certificate is issued.

  6. 6

    A first walk through your own site

    You walk your site against the standard and leave with a list of first steps towards certification.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • BRCGSBRCGS Global Standard Food Safety Issue 9, its interpretation guideline and the BRCGS audit protocol.
  • GFSI schemesGFSI benchmarking, so you see how BRCGS compares with IFS Food Version 8, FSSC 22000 Version 6 and the SQF Food Safety Code.
  • InternationalCodex General Principles of Food Hygiene (CXC 1-1969) and its HACCP annex, which the BRCGS food safety plan follows.
  • EURegulation (EC) 852/2004 and Regulation (EC) 178/2002, the law a BRCGS site in the EU must meet.
  • UKThe Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and equivalents, in the market where BRCGS began and where most retailers ask for it.
  • USFDA FSMA Preventive Controls (21 CFR Part 117), for sites selling into the US.
  • Australia and New ZealandThe FSANZ Food Standards Code.

How We Tailor It to You

Beginners learn best on a site they know. We use your own site from the first session, so each section of the standard is explained with your products, your rooms and your records.

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Combine this course with the rest of the BRCGS track, or with the specialist courses that matter most alongside it. You get more skills and one certificate-backed path for less than buying the courses separately.

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    Certified BRCGS Foundations Questions

    The questions buyers and food safety professionals ask most about this course.

    Yes. Confi Food's Certified BRCGS Foundations is delivered entirely 1-on-1 with a dedicated instructor, online and live, and scheduled around your working hours. The major providers run this as a fixed-date group course. Confi Food builds it around your own site and system from the first session.

    The Confi Food Certified BRCGS Foundations is €249.99, delivered 1-on-1 and fully customized. It can also be taken in a bundle with the rest of the BRCGS track, or with matched specialist courses, at a lower combined price. Comparable courses from large group-course providers are typically priced higher and delivered to a shared classroom on fixed dates.

    Yes. You can combine this course with any other Confi Food courses and the price adjusts automatically, with bigger savings the more you add. The extra courses come at up to half price, so you build a wider set of skills for a fraction of buying them separately.

    On completion you receive a TrustBite-recognised Certified BRCGS Foundations certificate with a unique verification ID, and you are listed in the TrustBite registry of certified professionals. The registry is a public directory that employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people, so the certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.

    The certificate is valid for 3 years. After that it can be renewed by completing a short online refresher quiz for €50, and the updated certificate is issued automatically and your registry listing is kept current.

    The course runs over 1 to 2 weeks of private 1-on-1 sessions, scheduled around your working hours so it fits around production and audit activity instead of interrupting it.

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