About Course

The objective of this qualification is to provide food safety trainers, consultants, enforcement officers, auditors and quality assurance officers with the enhanced knowledge and skills required to develop and implement effective policies and standards to safeguard businesses and customers throughout the food supply chain. 

Qualification Awarding Body
Highfield Qualifications  - UK

​Entry Requirements
Learners must have a food safety level 4 qualification

Course Duration

Sixteen (16) Hours (2 days)

​​​Modes of Study

• ​Online

• Classroom

• In-House

• Blended

​​Mode of Exam

• ​Online

Guidance on Assessment

• Assessment Method : Multiple-choice and Portfolio of Evidence

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This qualification is assessed in two parts (PART 1 and PART 2):

PART 1: Portfolio of Evidence: This part of the assessment is completed in three sections (A, B and C):

Section A
Assignment: learners must complete an extended essay with a minimum of 3000 words (maximum 5000 words), based on a topic developed by the center assessor. Assessors must develop a topic of research, a case study/scenario related to food safety, ensuring that the topic has scope to allow learners to apply skills such as review, evaluate, research and apply food safety and HACCP principles; identify strengths and weaknesses; make recommendations; present arguments and conclusions, all in the context of the Given case study/scenario.

Alternatively, Highfield will provide a list of topics of research - case study/scenario and the assessor can choose one of these topics for their learner assignments. This list will be available within the Highfield tutor/assessor support pack. Instructions on the assignment conditions are available in the Learner Assignment Brief, which learners can use to ensure their assignments comply with the requirements.

The topic for the assignment case study/scenario that the center assessor has designed must be submitted to Highfield for approval before assigning this to the learners.

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Section B
Professional Discussion: learners must discuss the main areas of their essay. their evaluation, arguments, and conclusions with their assessors. This can be completed using a PowerPoint presentation or a verbal discussion and reflection of sections of their essay with their assessor. This mandatory section is an opportunity for the assessor to review and ask questions for further engagement and interactions. This discussion including Q&A between the assessor and the learner, must be a minimum of 60 minutes. and must be video recorded. This evidence, along with assessor feedback, must be part of the portfolio of evidence.

The assessment outcome for the assignment will be graded as Refer, Pass, and Distinction. The assessment conditions, the minimum performance criteria, and marking guidance for each of these grades are provided in the tutor/assessor/IQA Support TAI pack available in the members’ area.

The assessor will mark both sections A and B and provide further guidance to learners if necessary. The assessor must write a feedback report for the learner on their performance on both sections.

Relevant feedback templates from the members' area are available in the assessment pack.

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Section C
Bespoke documents creation: Learners must produce four bespoke documents relevant to food safety management as part of their portfolio of evidence:

• A bespoke internal auditing form/checklist

• A bespoke HACCP control chart

• A report on developing a positive food safety culture

• A comprehensive emergency plan for a food business to deal with power outage/fire incident/floods.

Assessors can provide existing templates, which learners must adapt to make these templates bespoke to either their workplace (if a food business) or to a fictitious food business business scenario as provided by the assessor. This section is not marked, but is mandatory, to ensure that learners have the knowledge and understanding required to develop such plans when required in their careers.

The portfolio of evidence (assignment, presentation, video recording of discussions, bespoke documents/forms developed by learners, assessor feedback report and the assessment pack), Along with the results for all learners, it must be submitted to Highfield for external quality assurance checks before certification

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PART 2: Multiple-choice Questions Exam:

• Assessment Method : Multiple Choice Question [MCQ]

• No. of  Questions : 45

• Pass mark : 27/45 (60%)

• Distinction : 38/45 (85%)

• Duration : 90 Minutes

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To pass the qualification, learners must pass both Part 1 and Part 2 of the assessment. Learners will achieve a distinction grade on the overall qualification if they achieve a distinction on both the assignment and the multiple-choice exams.

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Course Content

The content includes: Managing food safety in a food business; effective management and leadership, responsibilities of food safety staff, management skills and failure, effective communication, developing management systems and food safety culture, managing and controlling hazards, management training responsibilities, HACCP, and inspections/audits. The qualification also requires learners to use research, analyse, review and evaluate food safety protocols; to apply reasoning, provide solutions to identified problems, make recommendations and provide conclusions. 

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E-Assessment
The exam is conducted via Highfield E-assessment and is remotely invigilated online at your home or your workplace.​
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Exam Requirements

• Photographic ID [Passport / Driving Licence / National ID ]

• PC/Laptop - PC or Laptop running Windows 7 or higher, or a Mac running iOS X or higher

• Webcam

• Smartphone running Android 4.1 or IOS 8.0 with camera / video functionality.

• Good internet connection

• Personal email address​

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Certification​

• Successful candidates receive a certificate from the Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance.

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Qualification Documents​