Food Safety

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As well as providing certified and in house food safety training courses, Goodrich Training & Consultancy provide a professional consultancy service to the hospitality and food industries.

How Do You Know the Food You Produce or Sell is Safe?

Are you grappling with the challenges of assuring your valued customers that the food you source, prepare, cook, serve or distribute is safe 365 days of the year, throughout the food chain.

Doing nothing just isn’t an option, the impact can be far reaching: loss of customer confidence, decreasing sales, increasing costs, unwelcome media attention, legal action, closure, being “named & shamed” ….. And your customers have long memories !

Our range of services will help you develop & maintain an integrated food safety management system that will give you, your customers & the regulatory authorities piece of mind.

This includes:

  • Benchmarking food safety audits against  international standards (i.e. ISO 22000)
  • Development of a documented & comprehensive food safety management system
  • Professional advice & support on continually improving & updating your systems
  • Staff training & competency development

Food Safety Management Systems & HACCP

We have considerable experience in assisting clients to develop a tailor made food safety management system that meets the unique demands of their own business. This can also be incorporated into an organization’s quality system through ISO 22000

An initial audit will assess your current level of food safety management against current EU legislation & industry standards such as:

  • ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems
  • IS 340 Catering Industry
  • IS 341 Food Retailing
  • IS 342 Food Processing

We liaise with environmental health officers & other regulatory bodies to ensure that you are kept fully up to date.

EIQA & the Hygiene Mark

As   partners of EIQA, we provide auditing services for their prestigious Hygiene Mark programme. This enables us to give you invaluable assistance to achieve this publicly recognized independent award for your hygiene standards & food safety systems.

Monitoring Programmes:

Our monitoring service will ensure that your particular operation achieves the optimum levels of food safety standards, which you know are good for business & are what your customers expect. Whilst you get on with running your business, our regular auditing programme helps ensure you go on meeting your food safety  standards from ISO 22000 to IS 340.  This can include:

  • Supplier audits & assessment
  • Internal food safety audits
  • “Mock” ISO 22000  audits
  • Training  Needs Analysts & Training Evaluation

Supplier Audits:

Supplier evaluation is not only a requirement of ISO22000:2005 compliance, but also for guarantees of food safety and traceability. Goodrich Training & Consultancy can carry out independent audits of client’s suppliers or potential suppliers to assess their standards. This typically will cover:

Purchasing policy
Food safety systems
Food Analysis Systems
Services
Food safety records		 Structures
Traceability & recall systems
Pest control
Operational hygiene
Internal auditing

Internal & “Mock” ISO 22000 Food Safety audits

Every food business needs to ensure that the food produced, sold or served is totally safe. Having an effective food safety management system is part of the picture, but you need to be aware of any potential problems before your environmental health officer, food inspector or customer discovers them; or worse if unsafe food slips through the system.

In order to get an independent assessment of your food safety management and operational hygiene, it’s well worth investing in an independent audit of your business, by professional auditors who will conduct all audits and relay the findings/recommendations in a sensitive and confidential manner, with an understanding of your business.

Internal audits will give you confidential information on the current standard of hygiene in your operation as well as the level of your food safety management systems; so that you can act before a third party audit.

Such audits are based on current legislation and relevant published guides to food safety management (such as ISO 22000) and hygiene. However, our reports will make recommendations for improvement, as well as outlining areas of compliance and non conformance.

These audits integrate with our other training and consultancy services to form part of a comprehensive “plan”, “do”, “check”, “act” system of continual improvement, on which ISO 22000 is based.

Legislation & Compliance

As increasing pressure is put on small companies, Goodrich Training & Consultancy see a requirement for our clients to be kept informed of the latest implications affecting their business. We:

  • Are regularly updated by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and Government Publications Office.
  • Are active members of the Irish Society of Food Hygiene Technology and the Irish Hospitality  Institute
  • Have access to the substantial information resources of Fáilte Ireland and the UK based Hotel & Catering International Management Association.
  • Receive daily Internet up dates on world wide food safety issues.

Goodrich Training & Consultancy can utilise this knowledge and experience in the form of an expert witness service for businesses. We have acted as an expert witness for clients in the Irish High Courts, by preparing hygiene audits and reports, providing technical information and opinion to clients' legal representatives and attending court.