Understanding VACCP and TACCP Training Course

Overview

Food businesses, including caterers, food manufacturers and food producers, must ensure they provide safe food for their customers. Doing so requires food businesses to protect themselves from intentional food threats, such as food fraud and food crimes, with a food defence system. 

In addition to the moral obligation to provide safe food, failure to prevent or detect food threats can be harmful to businesses’ reputations and bottom lines. 

This VACCP and TACCP training is designed to help learners understand food threats and how to combat them. After completing the course, learners will understand:

• What TACCP and VACCP are.
• Why a food defence system is important.
• The main threats that can affect a food business.
• The types of attacker that may target a food business and what motivates them.
• How to create a food defence system.
• The questions that an effective food defence system should answer.

Further Training

Alongside this training, we recommended that all learners take one of our Level 2 Food Safety courses for Catering, Retail or Manufacturing. These courses cover a range of information on food safety and hygiene, knowledge of which is required to implement a food defence management system. We also offer a Level 2 HACCP Training course, which covers the creation of a food safety management system.

Duration

It takes approximately 2 hours to complete the course. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in a single session. There is no time limit for completion.

Assessment

All candidates must complete a multiple choice assessment after working through the training material. The candidate will be asked 16 multiple choice questions and need to answer a minimum of 12 correctly to pass. Candidates will be given instant feedback after completing the assessment stating whether they have passed or failed. The assessment can be retaken as many times as is required to pass at no additional cost.

Module Summary

Successful candidates will receive a Institute of Hospitality Certificate and 2 CPD Credits.

This course certificate has no expiry date because there is no formally recognised period of validity for any health and safety training or this type of course. The HSE recommends refresher training is carried out whenever it is felt necessary. Safety registration bodies such as CHAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine & SMAS and other members of the SSiP scheme recommend most re-training is done every 3 years. We would recommend refreshing knowledge as and when legislation or guidance changes applicable to these regulations.

All of our courses, systems and services have been registered to the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 quality standard. Quality Management Systems Ltd (QMS) made this prestigious award to Commodious in January 2018. This gives assurance that the training and assessment was completed with a quality registered organisation.

After a successful purchase you will be automatically taken to our registration process. Here you create your learner(s) and assign the course(s) to them so that they can start training immediately. If you do not know all the learner details - no problem, you can return later and create the learners when it suits you.

The system automatically creates an admin group of your learners, this means you can access your learner accounts to obtain certificates or schedule reports on the progress of your group, useful for Health & Safety audits or Registration to organisations such as CHAS, SMAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine etc or site access when certificates are required.

If this all sounds too complicated feel free to contact us, we are more than happy to enrol you or your colleagues on your behalf.