Create a productive food manufacturing environment through a skilled team The National Certificate in Food and Related Products Processing will engage and upskill your front line production teams. Your team members will build their knowledge in key areas to create a productive and efficient work environment. Modules include: Safety Essentials Understanding workplace hygiene, food safety and workplace safety requirements is critical in a food manufacturing environment. This module ensures your team members are aware of; and can demonstrate basic requirements in these areas. Quality Ensuring quality standards are met requires your team members to know how to identify and communicate product and/or packaging faults as well as performing calculations. This module teaches your team members how to demonstrate and communicate this information in line with your organisations requirements. Food Safety It is essential for any person working with food to know about food safety requirements and demonstrate basic knowledge of contamination hazards and control methods as well as clean and sterilise equipment (floors/benches) manually. This module builds on safety requirements. Health and Safety Health and Safety provides your team members with knowledge about how to keep safe at work. It covers safe work practices, handling chemicals and manual handling. This module provides your employee with the ability to apply these practices in your workplace. Communication It is important for your team members to know how their role contributes to their team’s success. This module introduces your team members to working as part of a team as well as correctly filling in a form and the implications to them, their team and the organisation when important information is not provided correctly. This programme has been developed to meet specific needs of employees working in a food manufacturing environment. On completion, your employees will receive the National Certificate in Food and Related Products Processing, Level 2. The qualification is made up of two compulsary modules, Safety Essentials and Quality. Your Account Manager can work with you to select the remaining modules to best suit your business needs. Contact your Competenz Account Manager for further details or call us on 0800 526 1800 Competenz is a multi-sector industry training organisation. We help kiwi industry grow skills, careers and businesses and make it easy to learn on-the-job. Bespoke Best Practice Compulsory Example training plan (48 credits) Safety Essentials Quality 10 credits 11 credits Pick n Mix Food Safety Health and Safety Communication 4-8 credits 7 credits 4 credits • Remaining 8-12 credits will be tailored to your specific needs • Remaining credits can come from: • Food and Related Products Processing stand alone assesments • Competenz stand alone assesments 8-12 credits Competenz Meeting your Training Needs Competenz is a multi-sector Industry Training Organisation (ITO). Every year, we work with over 3,500 businesses and 20,000 learners. Our goal is to help New Zealand businesses be more competitive, through skilled and productive employees. We set qualification standards for our industries, write training materials and make it easy to train on-the-job. www.competenz.org.nz
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