FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

What is Food Safety Management Systems?

Food Safety Management Systems (FSMSs) are systems for controlling food safety hazards within a food business, to ensure that food remains safe for consumption. All businesses are required to implement, maintain, and conform to the principles of a FSMS based on the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system.

Using a food safety management system can make many aspects of food safety management easier. Some of these include:

  • Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP)
  • Incident reporting
  • Calibration
  • Quality control
  • Product recall
  • Training records
  • Competencies
  • Internal audit
  • Management review
  • Ingredients
  • Supplier Management
  • Facilities
  • Environment
  • Temperature Control
  • Receiving
  • Training
  • Traceability
  • Recall
  • Allergen Management
  • Labelling
  • Calibration
  • Cleaning and Sanitation
  • Personnel Processing Practices
  • Storage and Transport
  • High Risk Processes
  • Foreign Matter
  • Waste Disposal
  • Laboratories

What is the main purpose of a food safety management system?

Food safety management systems are designed to save your company resources.

Time is a particularly valuable resource for your company. If you give your employees more time by implementing a food safety management system, they will be able to accomplish more in less time as they won’t have to deal with as much paperwork.

 

Use SHEQ software

To design and implement a Quality Management System, SRM and many of our clients use Mango Compliance Software – www.mangolive.com Mango makes it easier to obtain and maintain ISO 9001:2015 certification.

 

SRM is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certified. Contact our consultants today. Let us know if we can help you with the development and implementation of your Quality Management System.