ISO and Food Safety training loaded with accreditations and class discussion

QMS Audits Training is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO No. 45344) and Exemplar Global recognised. We are a Licensed SQFI Training Centre and approved training providers for Freshcare, VITAL and BRCGS. HACCP Training, Cook Chill, Food Micro are nationally accredited. Our Auditor Academy has Internal Auditor and Lead Auditor Training.

Need help or In-house training? Call 1300 404 505 from 8am until 8pm Monday to Friday or email info@qmsaudits.com.au

Our Food Safety training includes HACCP, SQF, BRCGS, Internal Auditor, Lead Auditor, Freshcare,  Advanced HACCP, Food Microbiology, Food Safety Culture, Food Fraud/Defence (TACCP/VACCP) and Vital Allergen Management training. Become an Internal auditor or Lead Auditor food safety or ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 in our Auditor Academy. Join our classes in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide or join us from Perth, Darwin, Canberra or Hobart or regional Australia via Zoom. We keep it real! Our class sizes are limited to 12 people, so you have time to ask questions and interact with our trainers.

QMS Audits Training is Fun!!

QMS Audits Training is about having fun!! Adults learn best when they are enjoying themselves through listening, talking and telling stories. QMS Audits Training is the largest independent provider of HACCP, Internal Auditor, Lead Auditor, SQF, BRC and Freshcare Training in Australia.  We are one of three organisations delivering Cook Chill courses and we are the only training company offering 40 hours of Food Microbiology with Cook Chill. We are passionate about ensuring everybody who attends our training learns how to do things. If you do our 2 day virtual HACCP course we want you to able to write up a HACCP Plan by the end of the HACCP training. If you do our Internal Auditor Training, we want you to be able to conduct a detailed Internal audit and to be able to understand audit trails.

If you undergo one of our Lead Auditor courses in either food safety or ISO Integrated management systems, then we want you to become a practical, competent auditor. 

With all types of HACCP, Internal Auditor and Freshcare training  – you have to get the technical part right. You need to learn the key parts, so you can feel comfortable and prepared during an audit. But adult learning needs to be fun – otherwise you will fall asleep. We also believe that it doesn’t have to be filled with acronyms and jargon. So, instead we fill it with lots of examples taken from day-to-day life, anecdotes from clients and audits and try to make it fun and interactive. We have gone out of our way to ensure our online training courses, which are delivered as Virtual Classrooms, using Zoom or MS Teams, are very human and very interactive.

We had more than 60% growth in our training last year. More and more we see past students send other staff to our training – so we must be doing something right. We keep it simple and straight forward and hopefully a little bit funny (just occasionally).

All QMS Audits' Public Training is Capped at 12 people
Learning and Interaction are key!

Just like our public training courses, all of our online training courses, including HACCP, Freshcare, Internal Auditor and Lead Auditor Training, are purposely capped at 12 people. Everyone has an opportunity to ask specific questions about their food business and their HACCP plan.

Whenever possible our examples are based on information supplied by class members. Why would you use examples from a fictitious factory, when class members can tell you exactly how they managed an issue with their HACCP Plan or quality management system. 

Whenever we can, we use examples from the class or from our own experiences conducting food safety audits, HACCP Audits, managing food businesses or preparing clients for SQF, BRC, FSSC 22000 and HACCP Certification audits. It just makes it more interesting and definitely more interactive. 

What is HACCP?

HACCP is a gateway system for food safety. If you can get your head around the fact that a pedestrian gate will probably only stop the dog from getting out, while a castle should stop an entire army, then you can probably get your head around HACCP.

HACCP is about identifying potential food safety and quality hazards and then deciding what type of gate you need to put in place – do I need a pedestrian gate or a castle with a moat, draw bridge, thick walls and guards with bow and arrows? We think a pedestrian gate controls for low risk hazards and is a Control Point (CP), while the Castle gate acts a Critical Control Point (CCP). If the guy controlling the drawbridge is only letting the pretty girls through – then maybe he is acting more like a Quality Control Point (QCP) and letting them pass through based on their quality!

We will teach you how to identify and analyse food safety hazards, what some of the regulations are and how to control them. Then we will teach you how to write up a HACCP Plan – we give you HACCP templates to give you a head start and you will get to write some of your HACCP Plan up in the class. We drive healthy class discussion to keep you awake and to keep it relevant.

What is ISO?

ISO is about setting a minimum standard of management across a range of industries. There are more than 1000 ISO standards, however there are three that relate to most businesses. The most common ISO standards are ISO 9001 – Quality, ISO 14001 – Environment and ISO 45001 – Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), also known as Workplace Health and Safety (WHS). 

The three ISO standards include a risk assessment of what can go wrong, requiring each organisation to identify control measures. Using a common structure, the 3 standards can be fully combined into a streamlined Integrated Management System or IMS. 

Two other standards apply to specific industries ISO 22000 – Food Safety (GFSI accredited FSSC 22000) and ISO 27001 – Information Technology

Practical Advice For All Audits

At QMS Audits – we do lots of ISO Consulting, Food Safety and GFSI consulting and HACCP Audits. We write concise ISO Management systems, HACCP Plans and well structured, simple GFSI quality manuals, such as SQF, BRC and FSSC 22000. 

We are full of advice! We work with lots of certification bodies. Our advice comes from working lots of auditors from different certification bodies, including Intertek, SGS, Aus-Qual and Merieux Nutrisciences. Basically we know what works and what doesn’t. Not only do we understand the requirements, we know how to fulfil the requirements and even know the why.