Food Safety

Apply the required food standards with HACCP, ISO 22000, SQF or BRC.

Food Safety Management Consulting - Codex HACCP 2020 - ISO 22000 - SQF - BRC

Get peace of mind and be prove your product is safe.

Do you need HACCP, ISO 22000, SQF or BRC Certification?

HACCP is the most widely known food safety standard, and ISO 22000, SQF and BRC are just a few of the world’s best practice standards for identifying and controlling food safety hazards.

Any company that handles or processes food meets HACCP, ISO 22000, SQF or other food safety standards can reduce complaints, prevent recalls, and keep your customers safe.

Want to grow your business?

Food safety certification is often a minimum requirement for dealing with high profile customers or getting your product onto the shelves in supermarkets such as Foodland, Coles and Woolworths or export.

How we help you achieve ISO 22000 & HACCP Certification

Our Services

Our process for helping you achieve Food Safety certification is highly refined.

Gap Analysis

Do you have some processes or documentation in place and want to know what you need to do to achieve HACCP Certification? We can complete a gap analysis to identify what areas need upgrading and provide an action plan to give you a head start.

Consultation

We provide a tailored service depending on your needs. From coaching and guidance to develop the system yourself, or if time and internal expertise are limited, we can prepare it for you.

We work directly with you to extract all the knowledge and information in your business and match it to the standard requirements.

Internal Audits

If you don’t know where to start with internal audits or would like a fresh set of eyes to confirm compliance with HACCP or other food safety standards, then our qualified auditors can help.

We can deliver an efficient, objective and unbiased assessment of how well your food safety system is working.

Training

Understanding food safety and how to implement the systems required for HACCP 2020 can be difficult, especially when training your staff. We can handle this for you with online or in-person training so you can focus on what matters most in your business.

Save time with our easy to use, ready-to-implement documents.

Document Templates.

Need a quick start to build your food safety system quickly? Or would like to get ideas to improve on your existing system. We have ready to use document templates you will need to comply with Codex HACCP 2020.

The templates are easy to use and entirely customisable in Microsoft Word or Excel.

To see all our templates, click the button below.

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"Ensured our compliance requirements have been managed, and the systems have been audit ready."

"Professional and down to earth approach to quality system management development.”

"I found Nicole to be very professional and her service was exceptional to us."

Common Questions.

HACCP can improve your business on a number of fronts. Here are a few common questions you might already have.

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How can HACCP, ISO 22000, SQF or BRC certification grow my business?

Having a HACCP, ISO 22000, SQF or BRC Food Safety Management can impact your businesses growth in a number of ways. Most importantly, it allows you to access customers that require either food safety standard as a minimum requirement do business with them, for example, retailers such as Woolworths, Coles, Foodland or for export.

Beyond accessing more potential buyers, achieving HACCP, ISO 22000, SQF or BRC certification demonstrates that your business takes its food safety seriously, provides a competitive advantage in your marketplace and gives you peace of mind that you won’t make consumer sick.
What is the difference between HACCP, ISO 22000, SQF or BRC certification?

HACCP, ISO 22000, SQF or BRC are only a small number of food safety standards available, but all are a set of criteria required to produce food safety.

HACCP is the fundamental code that all other standards are built on; it takes a risk-based approach to food safety, it is not as prescriptive as the other standards. HACCP is the best place to start when building a food safety.

All other standards include more stringent requirements in addition to including a management system framework such as management review, setting objectives, food safety policy and often have elements of quality built-in.

Your customer will often specify which standard they will accept. If you are still not sure, speak to us, and we will guide you to determine which standard is right for you.
How can I best prepare for an external certification audit?

Preparing for an audit can be stressful, and we have many tips on preparing, but here are our top three.
1. Ensure your documentation complies with the standard(s) – say what you do to meet these requirements.
2. Do what you say – keep records or other evidence to demonstrate you are doing what you say you will do.
3. Implement the system so it becomes part of your day to day business. It is stressful to rush around just before your audit, trying to fix up any gaps.

Our consultants are external auditors themselves and will provide clarity and assurance in the steps required to make sure you pass the upcoming audit with flying colours and no stress.
Is achieving ISO 22000 or HACCPcertification hard?

Yes, if it weren’t, everyone would have it, but it is worth it, so we make it easy for you.

After 17 years, we've helped countless business achieve HACCP certification. One thing we have learnt along the way is that every business is different and needs a bespoke solution.

We tailor our strategy to ensure your food safety system is matched to the individual business and is practical and easy to implement. Doing so has enabled us to maintain consistent success for every one of our clients.
Is there an opportunity for system integration?

Yes, our exclusive food safety systems are designed to be integrated with quality – ISO 9001, environment – ISO 14001 and WHS – ISO 45001. As we go, we'll identify redundancies, improvement, offer insight into how to reduce duplication and reduce double handling throughout your business. The result? Increased productivity and streamlined processes and systems.
What makes Pinnacle Management Systems different?

We don’t just give you a HACCP Plan; we mentor and guide the business to fully understand what their food safety system means, how it works and what needs to be done day to day to maintain and improve it. We partner with you to make the systems fit your processes and how you like to do things.

We extract all your knowledge about the business and map it to the standard. As auditors, we know what is required to meet the standard and pass an external audit the first time.

We prioritise simplicity and usability to add value and protect your business, not just for certification.
Where are you based?

Our consultants are based in Adelaide however we routinely travel to other states around Australia to visit clients, handle audits and deliver training.
Can you do our external audit too?

No.

It is a conflict of interest for consultants or anyone who has had input into your HACCP Plan or Food Safety System to deliver external certification audits.

You need to contact an accredited certification body for external audits.

Speak to us, and we can provide you with an unbiased recommendation for reputable certification bodies to contact.