The Food Safety Team Leader manages the organization’s Food Safety Management System (FSMS), overseeing food safety processes, audits, corrective actions, and recalls and keeping the organization informed of food safety issues. Food Safety Team Leader will also establish the Food Safety Team according to the requirements in the standard. Food Safety Team Leader are responsible for ensuring that the team has the appropriate expertise, training and experience for the tasks they are assigned.
Food Safety Team Leader will lead this team. Food Safety Team Leader will schedule meetings, prepare agendas, and collect information to bring to the meetings.
FOOD SAFETY TEAM
LEADER ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Periodically review all food safety procedures and instructions, to ensure they remain current
Review requests to change FSMS-related procedures and work instructions and direct the Food Safety Team through such reviews
Manage the Food Safety Team and ensure that processes needed for the FSMS are established, implemented, and maintained
Report to the President and also top management on the performance of the FSMS and any need for improvement
Ensure the promotion of awareness of customer requirements pertaining to food safety throughout the organization
Develop the Company’s prerequisite programs and ensure that PRPs are implemented, monitored, and communicated to the appropriate parties, and periodically review PRPs.
Assemble Food Safety Teams, as needed
Prepare a Flow Diagram for each product or process category covered by the Food Safety Management System and verify the accuracy of those diagrams
Conduct hazard analyses
Ensure that inspection requirements are included on Purchase Orders
Evaluate suppliers’/vendors’ food safety systems; monitor and report on supplier food safety performance on an ongoing basis
Review all rejections by the Food Inspector
Review revisions to manufacturing practices, to ensure potential food safety hazards have been adequately addressed
Confirming the nonconformity and determine the disposition of nonconforming materials
Oversee the internal food safety audit program – select internal audit personnel, review results of food safety audits, ensure that corrective actions are understood, and supervise corrective actions
Reporting on corrections and corrective actions taken at Management Review meetings
Collect, analyze, and publish measurement data, to determine the root cause of process and product food safety problems and recommend action to resolve those problems
Initiate and supervise product recalls, to ensure adequate implementation and effectiveness
Supervise hazard analyses, report results of analyses to top management, and periodically review food safety-related processes to ensure hazards are accounted for and controlled
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