Write a statement (approx. 1,000 to 1,200 words) outlining your overall appraisal of the food safety program against aspects of ISO 22000 that were reviewed in the course and the Australian and New Zealand Food Standards Code. Include a summary of general areas that seem to be appropriately controlled and met the standards, and the same for your main areas of concern.Explain why the areas of concern need to be addressed, and the possible business impact of a failure to address them appropriately
Workplace Evidence Task 2:
Food Safety and Quality Management Action Plan
Write a Food Safety and Quality Management action plan to bring the program up to where you think it needs to be to comply with ISO 22000. When preparing this action plan, imagine that you want to achieve this in your first 100 days as Quality Manager. This action plan needs to include your strategy (in the form of measurable actions) to address and improve the following areas:
1. Improving Management Commitment to Food Safety and Quality
2. Improving Internal Communication on Food Safety and Quality
3. Improving the effectiveness of key Pre Requisite Programs
4. Improving the identification and management of food safety hazards
5. Training needs analysis to upskill staff to understand their responsibilities and reporting obligations.
For each of the items listed above, include the planned timings for completion of each action you define, and the roles of the individuals who will be responsible.When completing this task, please outline the external parties that you are responsible for managing compliance with which impact on the site food safety and/or quality management system. For example; external regulators, certification bodies, external consultants, externally managed components, third party supplier audit programs etc.
Complete a Root Cause Analysis Project
Please submit all parts of this task in one document with a contents page, sub headings and page numbers NB: If organisational confidentiality is a concern, the identifying names of people & organisations may be blacked out or replaced with pseudonyms.Identify an area of the system or an aspect of a product that requires substantial improvements. (It should be substantial enough to work on as a team improvement project. It may, but does not have to be related to tasks 1 and or 2) Participants are required to lead and complete the Root Cause Analysis Process (8 Disciplines Approach) as outlined in the participant manual on the identified improvement opportunity.
After completing the root cause analysis, submit the following evidence:
1. The Team Approach
a. The Team
Guidance: List who was selected to be on the team, detail their skills and knowledge, why were they included. (A manager who has accountability for the area concerned should be included on the team). Minutes of team meetings should be kept and submitted as evidence of their involvement in decision making and contribution to the continuous improvement processes.
2. Define and Describe the Problem
a. Data Collection and Analysis
Guidance: Include a detailed breakdown and interpretation of the data used to identify and define the opportunity. (Detail the implications associated with not acting on the data findings).
b. Evaluation Criteria
Guidance: Use the 5W2H (who, what, when, where, and why, how and how much) approach (refer to your participants manual) to develop the Problem Definition Statement. Include the evaluation criteria and a plan of how you will determine the success of the Root Cause Analysis project.
3. Isolate and Contain the Symptom(s)
a. The Problem Definition
Guidance: Include details of how the facts of the situation were verified, who approved the plan (to go ahead) before committing resources to the temporary solution.
b. Interim Containment Action
Guidance: Detail the action taken to isolate and contain the symptoms. Detail the interim controls that were implemented, as additional precautions to control the problem until the long-term resolution was determined.
c. Validation of Containment Action.
Guidance: Provide the evidence you used to demonstrate the short-term action effectively controls the identified deficiency.
4. Identify the Root Cause(s)
Guidance: Detail the causal factors, and the brain storming activities undertaken to determine them. Include details of the discussions regarding ambiguities and problems experienced while interpreting the collected data. Include minutes of team meetings and consultation with personnel. (Refer to the course notes for details on Root Cause Analysis, for example, affinity diagrams, 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagrams, etc). Include the details of any additional analysis undertaken to clarify aspects of the root cause analysis.
5. Validate Permanent Corrections
a. Assess Impact and Implementation
Guidance: Detail how you assessed the financial and resource costs associated with different options and how individuals will be impacted by the change. Include an explanation of the changes made to the recommendations and why. Include feedback and comments you obtained during consultation with other team members (and /or interested parties).
b. Scope of Authority
Guidance: Detail how the Team determined if the corrective action was within the Teams (assignee’s) authority, and how approval to proceed was obtained. Include with your submission a copy of the Corrective Action Plan.
6. Implement and Verify Corrective Action
Guidance: Provide evidence to prove that the corrective action plan has been implemented and is effective. (An audit would be one way of completing this step.)
7. Prevent Recurrence
Guidance: Detail how the implementation of the project has contributed to system and or product improvement(s). Data should be included to demonstrate the improvement.
8. Congratulate the Team
Guidance: Detail and provide evidence of how the benefits of the work done by the Team was shared with others in the organisation.
One of ABC’s clients is planning to launch a new chocolate product. The client would like to know whether the product composition and label data is compliant with Australia’s legislation.
Task:
Below is the product labelling form for the proposed product, as well as some claims they are hoping to put on pack Your task is to identify any breaches of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code and any other relevant legislation, such as the Australian Consumer Law.The report should be high level and an overview only. No detailed investigation is expected for this task.
