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Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist

A private, fully customized specialist course in auditing & compliance, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own operation. You finish able to put food safety documentation & recordkeeping skills to work immediately.

The Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist course builds deep, applied competence in sOPs, logs, verification records, corrective action records, document control, and audit evidence management. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your operation.

What You Will Be Able to Do

Listed in the TrustBite registry on completion

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

    The document hierarchy

    Policies, procedures, work instructions, forms and records, and what each one must contain.

  2. 2

    Document control

    Numbering, approval, version control, change control and removing obsolete documents from the floor.

  3. 3

    Records that prove control

    Monitoring and verification records, legibility, how to correct an entry and who signs and checks.

  4. 4

    Retention and retrieval

    How long each market and scheme requires you to keep records, and how to find any record fast.

  5. 5

    Electronic records

    Software systems, electronic signatures, backups, access rights and data integrity.

  6. 6

    Review of your own system

    A document control review of your own site, with a gap list and a plan to close it.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • InternationalISO 22000:2018 clause 7.5 on documented information and Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene (CXC 1-1969).
  • EURegulation (EC) 852/2004 Article 5 on HACCP documents and records, and Regulation (EC) 178/2002 Article 18 on traceability records.
  • UKThe Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and equivalents, and retained Regulation 852/2004.
  • USFSMA Preventive Controls (21 CFR Part 117) Subpart F on records, including the two year retention rule, and USDA FSIS 9 CFR Part 417 recordkeeping.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, the preventive control plan and its record requirements.
  • Australia and New ZealandThe FSANZ Food Standards Code, Standards 3.2.1 and 3.2.2A, and MPI Food Control Plan records in New Zealand.
  • GFSI schemesThe document control and record clauses of BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9, IFS Food Version 8, FSSC 22000 Version 6 and the SQF Food Safety Code.

How We Tailor It to You

We review your own document system session by session. You rebuild your document register, your record forms and your retention table during the course, so the system you finish with is your own.

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Combine this course with related specialist courses. You get more skills and one certificate-backed path for less than buying the courses separately.

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Auditing & Compliance Specialist Pack

Three courses from Auditing, Documentation & Compliance
  • Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist
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  • Certified Internal Audit Specialist (Global Food Standards Edition)
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Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping + Integrity & Supply Chain Pack

This course plus two Integrity & Supply Chain specialisms
  • Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist
  • Certified Recall & Crisis Management Specialist
  • Certified Food Fraud Prevention Specialist
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    Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist Questions

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

    Yes. The Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist course is delivered entirely 1-on-1 with a dedicated instructor, online and live, and scheduled around your working hours. Most providers deliver specialist topics as fixed-date group webinars. Confi Food builds the course around your own products, processes, and site from the first session.

    The Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist course is €249.99, delivered 1-on-1 and fully customized. It can also be taken in a bundle with related specialist courses at a lower combined price.

    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 Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist 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.

    It suits food safety professionals who need applied depth in this specific area, whether to meet a regulatory requirement, close an audit finding, or take on the role. Because it is 1-on-1, the instructor sets the starting point to your level and your operation.

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