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Certificates in Food Processing

Overview

What are the Certificates in Food Processing?

The Certificates in Food Processing are competency-based qualifications developed with direct industry input to enable food companies to build a competent workforce with the skills and expertise necessary for improving business competitiveness, productivity and profitability.

Competency-based training requires more than a person demonstrating skill only. It includes the ability to perform a range of tasks within the job requirements, to transfer skills and knowledge to new situations, to solve problems and to demonstrate the ability to communicate and work well with others.

The Certificates in Food Processing achieve these goals whilst offering a huge range of subject material and flexibility suitable for the diverse training needs of the food industry.

 Qualifications

We offer four nationally accredited Food Processing qualifications.

Each qualification is a stand-alone qualification that students can enter directly into with no entry prerequisites other than where specified for specific units.

Selecting the most appropriate course

Each Certificate is targeted to meet different competency requirements.
In general these are:

Certificate I: Usually for new employees, just commencing formal training.

Certificate II: For employees with some prior experience in food processing.

Certificate III: For more experienced employees who wish to advance to higher levels of responsibility.

Each Certificate consists of a combination of core, optional and specialist units.

• Core units are compulsory units for all students.
• Optional units as their name suggests, allow the student or business to select from a wide range of general industry based units.
• Specialist units focus on specific skills that are unique to the food sector that the business is involved in.

A range of appropriate units is combined to produce a Training Plan. This Training Plan is developed in close consultation with each business to meet their employee’s specific training and development needs.

If a business is unsure of their training requirements a Training Needs Analysis can be conducted. This identifies any gaps between employee’s current skill levels and those required by each enterprise.

Training Delivery

The training delivery strategy is developed in close consultation with each client depending on the qualification students are enrolled in and is usually a combination of both on-the-job and off-the-job (classroom) training.

All core units are trained off-the-job and can include:

1. Classroom based activities
2. Workplace tasks and exercises
3. Simulations
4. The use of workplace documentation (SOP’s, Checksheets, Production reports, O,H&S forms, policies and procedures etc)

Optional and Specialist units are trained both off-the-job and on-the-job, as the employee gains experience in different workplace operations and duties.

The delivery strategy is designed to maximise each student’s exposure to the skills they need and also meet each enterprises business goals. Business goals often provide a specific focus for the training and may include:

1. Embracing a new workplace culture
2. The implementation of new systems and procedures (such as HACCP).
3. The development and standardisation of existing documentation (such as SOP’s, Quality forms etc)
4. Increased emphasis on O,H&S and consultative processes
5. Improved workplace communication
6. Continuous quality improvement programs
7. Familiarisation with new technologies

Our aim is to ensure each business obtains maximum benefit from their training investment.
Please review the attached outlines for further details on each qualification.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Courses may be shortened considerably through students gaining exemption from units, or parts of units, under recognition of prior learning provisions. The main focus of RPL is to determine the student's current level of competency, so that courses can be tailored (and where possible shortened) to gain maximum benefit from each training investment.

Download our RPL Brochure to find out more.

Delivery Location

All training is conducted on site at your workplace, making it more efficient and cost effective. If this is not convenient, a suitable off site venue can be arranged.

Our Fees

Our services are provided through either government funded training schemes (eg User Choice funding) or through fee-for-service.