Our Services
Food Safety Experts has a range of services for the food manufacturing industry, all aimed at facilitating and enhancing the work of quality and food safety professionals. Below, you will find a list of our services – including a brief description of each service.
For all our services, the starting point is for you and us to have a conversation. We place your success central in everything we do, hence we need to have a deep understanding of your needs before we can advise what might be the best direction for you and your company (even if that means we have to refer you elsewhere). We also offer bespoke solutions to specific issues for our clients, so please view the below list as starting point for our conversation.
Workshops
Our workshops will help you to be successful as a quality and food safety professional.
The workshops contain live presentations about the WHAT, WHY and HOW, live explanations of the downloads, video lessons, practical templates, best practices and useful external sources and tools for you to download and use.
At the end of each workshop, you get a certificate as proof of continuous learning.
Next to this you also have access to 3 times 30 minutes one-on-one meetings with one of our coaches. All questions you have will be answered during these meetings.
QFS Training Repository
How are you keeping your knowledge of food safety up to date? Do you have all the knowledge that you need to be successful in your job?
Our QFS Training Repository is the one stop shop to help you address quality and food safety issues. It contains already over 20 courses! All of these courses are immediately available for you to follow. All the trainings are on demand. You can follow the training as often as you like. You can search for the topic that you need. You can follow the training when you want to follow it. You can follow the training when you need. The courses are ± 45 – 60 minutes. And as proof of learning you can download your certificate.
Next to these 20 trainings you will get in our QFS Training Repository a new training on a monthly basis! This way you will always get new topics that you can learn from! You get real life examples of food safety situations explained in an easy way. All the training modules are to the point, and have practical information for you, which you can apply straight away. The trainings are focused on Best Practices and Most Common Mistakes.
You will keep access to all trainings as long as you are a participant of the QFS Training Repository.
As a participant you have access to the Food Safety Forum. The coaches of Food Safety Experts actively participate in the forum. Here you can ask all the questions you have. It is a community to develop, share and exchange knowledge on food safety, to learn from experts globally, and to share your lessons learned. This way we all help other quality professionals to improve food safety everywhere!
And we share our list of useful online tools and websites – this alone will already save you an enormous amount of time searching for the tools you are looking for:-).
To learn more on the QFS Training Repository, click here
QFS Mastery Program
The QFS Mastery Program is a unique program which will help you be successful as a quality and food safety professional.
You Already Know The WHAT and the WHY of Food Safety – Finally, Here’s The HOW
- How To Get Employees To Embrace Food Safety On The Manufacturing Floor
- How To Get Management Behind Your Efforts and Ideas
- How To Create A Culture of Food Safety In Your Organization
- How To Continuously Evolve Your Program to Meet the Needs of Your Organization and its Clients
One of the challenges is implementing certification and legal requirements efficiently. How will you implement all the QFS Mastery Modules in your organization?
Our QFS Mastery Program helps you implement every aspect within 1 month! Are you facing a hurdle? Just hop on the monthly Open Office Hours and ask all your questions to one of the coaches of Food Safety Experts. The online Open Office Hours will be hosted by one of our senior coaches.
The approach consists of 12 modules. All the modules are focused on the HOW of Quality and Food Safety and will show you via step by step processes HOW to get shop floor workers to execute your Quality and Food Safety programs and HOW to influence your management to see it as a priority. You can use our QFS Mastery Program for understanding all the basics and get a complete step-by-step approach with tools and templates. This way you have all you need at your fingertips and you can start making improvements right away.
The modules contain video lessons, practical templates, best practices and useful external sources and tools for you to download and use. Next to this we also give you “homework” to HELP you to find the typical pains of your organization and HOW you can change this.
At the end of each module, you get a certificate as proof of continuous learning.
To learn more on the QFS Mastery Program, click here
QFS Success Coaching
QFS Success Coaching is our flagship coaching program, which truly helps Quality and Food Safety Professionals at every level be successful in their job. The starting point of this program are your personal growth objectives, your annual (team) targets and the typical challenges you face. We break all of these down to quarterly focus items for you to work on and so improve your performance and enhance your career. Every quarter you will have a meeting with your coach.
Next to this has each participant in QFS Success Coaching access to an unlimited number of 15-minute coaching calls. Any issue we cannot address ourselves during the call, we will research for you. On top of that you will also get emergency access to your coach via Whatsapp in case you face a recall situation or another major event where you need immediate support.
To learn more on QFS Success Coaching, click here.
Mentoring
In some cases, you as a quality and food safety professional, might have specific development needs. You might want to grow to the next level, our you might be placed in a new role where you feel unsecure. In these cases, it can be of tremendous value to have a mentor at your side.
Mentoring is intensive and it helps you grow both at a personal (managerial) level as well as a professional level. At the same time, mentoring is not a one-size-fits-all solution, it requires a personal approach and is aimed at your development needs. A typical mentoring program will last for a year, and during the year you will achieve a true personal and professional transformation with the aid of a seasoned coach.
To learn more on our mentoring services, click here.
Compliance Services
Especially for food and feed manufacturing companies in the Netherlands, we offer a full food safety compliance service. This service entails us defining the exact list of Dutch and European legal requirements for your company. Through the use of a system call Pharius, you will be kept up to date on any changes in legislation, including recommendations from our side on how to best implement these changes.
Moreover, the system even provides the option for you to document the way in which you embed compliance in your organization. If required, the tool can be expanded to include Health, Safety and Environment as wel through one of our partners.
To learn more (in Dutch) about our compliance services, click here.
Consulting
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FSMA Support
Next to the course and the book, we also provide FSMA consulting services, but we find that most of our clients are best served with our FSMA Masterclass, which contains all the tools and templates you need towards FSMA compliance.
To learn more about the FSMA Masterclass, click here.
Emergency Response
To learn more about our emergency response services for the food industry (in Dutch) click here