Managing a Food Safety Incident / Product Recall
Duration: 1 day – in-person training.
Aimed at: Key employees from food and drink manufacturing businesses who would have responsibility in the event of a product recall. Those in quality, technical, operational, PR and senior leadership roles who need to know how to respond effectively to regulatory, customer, commercial and public scrutiny during a food safety event.
Trainer: Pareire Consulting: A food industry consultancy with the combined regulatory, scientific, leadership and hands-on lived experience of managing food product recalls.
Programme Overview
The primary objective of this training is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, confidence and a toolbox to ensure they are in the strongest position to handle a food safety incident / product recall.
Capped at 8 participants to maximise engagement and learning, the workshop focuses on three key elements:
- Trends and Learnings from recent Food Safety Incidents in Ireland
- Including legal responsibilities for Food Business Operators
- Preparedness – ie. (“Peacetime planning”) including
- Identification of Triggers
- Risk Assessment including managing false positives
- Crisis Management team incl. roles and responsibilities
- Immediate Actions
- Escalation Decision Tree
- Product Recovery and Disposal
- Live Incident Simulation - including
- The First 72 hours
- Regulatory Notification / who and how
- Managing Internal and External Communication
- Escalation
- Running a Mock Recall
- Final de-brief and lessons learned.
Price:
Member - €300 per participant (Non-members €450)
Programme also available as closed “in-company” course for €2,400 per company