The management systems community
27th Feb 2012
I believe that employees must not only be made aware of the big picture, but must also understand the vision and objectives of the organization and their responsibility vis-à-vis food safety. My experience has also shown that a well-thought-out management system to help achieve this objective is crucial.
21st Feb 2012
Training plays a critical role in assuring food safety. We can take our cues from recent work done by the GFSI. With the objective to improve food safety systems across the globe, the GFSI developed a tool kit to help food suppliers meet GFSI recognised certification schemes.
21st Feb 2012 by Alex Briggs
In the US, two food safety crises over the past three years have led certain interested parties to question the role and even complicity of both second and third party certification industry in managing risks in the food supply chain – LRQA discusses independent third party audits and why they are a good for food [...]
20th Feb 2012 by Cor Groenveld
Manufacturers and retailers see the benefits of a harmonised approach and they are more and more willing to work together. This is essential because this is the only way to achieve harmonisation.
17th Feb 2012 by JChowdhury
I would like to talk about the trends in the food supply chain – mainly related to audits and certification. I think the organisations in the food supply chain are ready now to harmonise. Manufacturers and retailers see the benefits of a harmonised approach and they are more and more willing to work together. This [...]
17th Feb 2012 by Cor Groenveld
When you look at LRQA’s auditors and our approach at audits, we are intensively training our people to make sure that they have a management system process based approach.
16th Feb 2012
Over 900 delegates from 47 countries discussed food safety, collaboration across the food supply chain and management systems on day one of the GFSI Food Safety Conference in Orlando, Florida.
16th Feb 2012 by Cor Groenveld
I believe that the harmonisation of standards in the food supply chain is one of the most important topics within our industry. If we think back almost to 20 years ago, where the food sector started to expand the focus on food safety, we ended up with more than 100 standards for food safety management systems!
16th Feb 2012
LRQA’s Cor Groenveld and Vel Pillay join the GFSI’s leading expert on auditor competency, Bill McBride, in this podcast on auditor competency.
15th Feb 2012 by Cor Groenveld
We have seen a very big change when you look at the approach of certification and audits and I think a very positive change. When we started with certification in the food supply chain it was more about inspection; we had the inspection bodies, they came in with a check list and what they did was to simply ‘tick the box’.
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