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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-45
HACCP Plan for a Food Business
For: Quality and hygiene managers, production managers and supervisors in the food industry, institutional catering and small-scale food processing.
Learning outcomes
- Identify the biological, chemical and physical food hazards in a unit.
- Implement the prerequisite programmes and good hygiene practices of a food unit.
- Build a HACCP plan: critical control points, critical limits, monitoring, corrective actions.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Biological, chemical and physical food hazards; prerequisite programmes; good hygiene practices. |
| Week 2 | HACCP method: hazard analysis, critical control points, critical limits, monitoring, corrective actions. |
| Week 3 | Verifying and documenting the plan; graduated hygiene approaches for small-scale processing, institutional catering and street food vending. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: HACCP plan of a food unit (in the field with the organisation's written consent, or on a case provided). |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): anonymised HACCP plan of a food unit; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). Any fieldwork requires the organisation's written consent.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Food Safety Management
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-45C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- ISO 22000:2018 standard and its amendment Amd 1:2024, studied from the text itself.
- How the standard fits with the HACCP method and with other management system standards.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Professional experience in food production, processing or distribution, assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Quality, Health, Safety and Environment, within a period set by the certificate regulations.