A private, fully customized introduction to SQF, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule. You finish understanding how SQF is structured and how its certification works, ready to move into implementation or your first audit.
The Certified SQF Foundations course gives you a working command of the leading GFSI-benchmarked scheme across North American retail and foodservice: the SQF System Elements, the sector Good Manufacturing Practices, and the HACCP food safety plan. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your site and sector.
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.
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.
The SQF Food Safety Code, its food sector categories, the system elements and the GMP modules, and who the SQF practitioner is.
Management commitment, document control, food safety culture, specifications, supplier approval, training and the food safety plan.
Codex HACCP as SQF audits it, validation, verification and the practitioner's role in keeping the plan current.
Site requirements, hygiene, pest control, cleaning, allergen control, food defence and food fraud under the modules for your sector.
Registration, choosing the certification body, the desk audit and facility audit, scoring, ratings, corrective action and the surveillance cycle.
A gap check of your own site against the SQF Food Safety Code and a written plan for your first audit.
We ask about your site and sector before we begin, and pick the SQF modules that apply to you. The gap check in Module 6 is of your own site, so you know where you stand before implementation begins.
Combine this course with the rest of the SQF 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.
Prefer a different mix? Pick any combination of courses and the price adjusts automatically. This course is included to start. Add at least one more to form a bundle.
Add courses and your savings grow automatically. Bundle two and you save on the second. Build a bigger set and the extra courses come at up to half price. More skills, one certificate-backed path, for a fraction of what the courses cost separately.
Two or more courses required. Pricing applies automatically at checkout.
The questions buyers and food safety professionals ask most about this course.
Yes. Confi Food's Certified SQF Practitioner 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 SQF Practitioner is €249.99, delivered 1-on-1 and fully customized. It can also be taken in a bundle with the rest of the SQF 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 SQF Practitioner 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.
Enrol now and start with a session mapped to your site, or book a free consultation first.
Pay in two instalments or lesson by lesson, buy as a company on invoice, or claim 30% off as a graduate.