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Your HACCP / HARA is the core of your product safety and quality management system. To establish and maintain an effective product safety plan, it needs to be managed by a team with suitable training, relevant skills and experience.
BRCGS Consultant can assist by providing the skills and experience to support and guide your HACCP team through the risk assessment process, or train your HACCP team members, CCP monitors and site staff.
With the multitude of ever-changing standards and regulations that businesses must meet, over time Product Safety and Quality Management Systems can become complicated, time-consuming to manage and a perceived hindrance to operations and supply chain flexibility.
An independent evaluation of your PSQMS can reinvigorate, simplify and streamline your operational and supply chain quality processes. BRCGS Consultant supports sites to simplify complex PSQMS systems at mature sites, conduct BRCGS gap and pre-assessments to assess compliance, reduce risk, improve product safety and identify opportunities for improvement.
A simplified QMS provides a framework to support your entire supply chain to consistently manufacture and handle safe product of the required quality, at optimum cost, whilst ensuring due diligence is maintained, regulatory and customer standards are met, and product safety and compliance risks are effectively monitored and managed.
Any incident or event may result in the production of unsafe, illegal or non-conforming product and risks to consumer safety. An emergency situation may also occur as a result of a sudden, unforeseen crisis that requires immediate action. An effective emergency plan must be in place so that if, at any stage, an incident occurs that impacts food safety, legality or quality, it will be managed effectively.
BRCGS Consultant can review your Incident and Recall Plan to ensure that it meets industry best practice, and conduct bespoke product incident, withdrawal and recall, business continuity or health and safety scenario-based simulations to test your incident management systems and teams beyond traceability tests or mock recalls.
We can provide confidential support in a potential recall situation, providing calm and judicious assistance through the decision-making process, and ensuring that once a decision is taken, communication and actions are effective and thorough.
Glass and other foreign matter, such as wood, metal, plastic, cardboard and insects are a major cause of complaints and product recalls.
An effective foreign matter management program will minimise business disruption, prevent non-conforming product and prevent an internal contamination or breakage incident from becoming an external crisis.
An independent audit of site foreign matter controls can detect gaps in systems or implementation of controls before they lead to non-conforming product, complaints or recalls.
NCP can occur at any point in your process and add cost to your process through rework costs or waste. BRCGS Consultant will independently investigate your processes to:
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Identify of where, when, how and why NCP is being generated.
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Identify of root causes of non-conforming product and rework generation.
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Advise appropriate corrective actions to stop non-conforming product being produced and reduce the cost of waste and rework.
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BRCGS Consultant can conduct and document root cause analysis to prevent recurrence of issues and reduce waste and risk, and support implementation of corrective actions. We can also train staff in root cause analysis techniques, and develop systems for recording, verification and effectiveness of actions.
BRCGS Consultant can help your business develop an effective system to manage suppliers of raw materials and packaging:
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Support the development of a raw material risk assessment process, including VACCP
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Design questionnaires to meet your business and supplied material specific requirements
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Review questionnaire responses and advise on follow up actions
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Conduct documented audits for approval of new suppliers or maintenance of approval of current suppliers on your behalf, focusing on product safety, traceability, HACCP / HARA, food defence and good manufacturing processes
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Manage non-conformances to satisfactory close out with the supplier.
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Conduct issue-based audits related to non-conformance of supplied materials or complaint investigation
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