HACCP Plan Training for Food Safety

Duration - 2 Weeks (Flexible)

Format - In person or Virtual

Language: English, French

Overview

HACCP plan training helps you design, review, and improve food safety plans that follow Codex principles. In this course, you learn how to describe products, map process steps, analyze hazards, and identify critical control points that are real and practical for your context.

The training is based on the Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene and its HACCP annex, and it uses examples from real plants and inspection systems. You practice building HACCP plans step by step, from flow diagrams and hazard analysis to critical limits, monitoring, corrective actions, and verification.

By the end, participants can draft or update a HACCP plan, explain their choices to auditors and regulators, and link the plan to prerequisite programs, national rules, and certification schemes.

What Is a HACCP Plan and Why This Training Matters

HACCP plan training focuses on the practical steps to design, document, and maintain HACCP plans that follow Codex principles. A HACCP plan describes the product, maps the process, analyzes hazards, and identifies critical control points that must be managed to keep food safe.

Many systems struggle not with the idea of HACCP, but with unclear or generic plans. This training helps you move from template documents to a site‑specific HACCP plan that reflects your real processes and constraints.

This training is aligned with the Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene and its HACCP annex, as set out in the Codex Alimentarius standards.

What You’ll Learn in this HACCP Plan Training

Explain the role of HACCP in Codex-based food safety systems and how a HACCP plan fits with prerequisite programs.
Describe products, intended use, target consumers, and process flows as the basis for a strong HACCP plan.
Conduct structured hazard analysis and decide which hazards are significant and must be controlled.
Identify CCPs using Codex decision trees and avoid confusing CCPs with operational prerequisite programs.
Set critical limits, monitoring, corrective actions, and verification activities that are realistic and auditable.
Review, update, and communicate your HACCP plan to regulators, auditors, and plant staff.

By the end of this HACCP plan training, participants can lead or contribute to the development and review of HACCP plans in their own organizations.

The course draws on FAO/WHO guidance on HACCP and adapts it to different regulatory and resource settings.

Training Agenda Snapshot for HACCP Plan Training

The agenda below shows how the HACCP plan training moves from core concepts to applied practice and country or company adaptation.

Theme	Focus
Topic 1	Foundations of Codex HACCP and relationship with prerequisite programs
Topic 2	Product description, process flow diagrams, and on‑site confirmation
Topic 3	Hazard analysis and determination of CCPs
Topic 4	Critical limits, monitoring, corrective actions, and verification
Topic 5	Capstone: drafting or reviewing a HACCP plan for your context

Who Should Attend this HACCP Plan Training

This HACCP plan training is designed for organizations that need to design, review, or strengthen HACCP systems in line with Codex and national requirements.

Government food safety officials and inspectors
Risk assessors and risk managers
QA/QC managers and HACCP coordinators in industry
Laboratory and technical leads supporting HACCP implementation
Donor‑funded project teams and consultants working on risk‑based food control

Certification

Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion recognizing their participation in this HACCP plan training and their readiness to contribute to Codex-based HACCP implementation.

Request for information

To schedule this HACCP plan training for your team, adapt it to your national context, or combine it with other courses, please contact me using the form below or by email.

You can also explore my other food safety and risk analysis trainings that complement HACCP, including prerequisite programs and risk ranking and prioritization.