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Root Cause Analysis versus Corrective Action

As per BRC Global Food Safety Standard Revision 6, Corrective Action and Root Cause Analysis are viewed as two different things. Corrective Action is defined as ‘Action to eliminate the cause of a detected non-conformity deviation’ Root Cause is defined as ‘Und...

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Advanced HACCP training

As the TESCO Food Manufacturing Standard, (TFMS), requires as an aspiration under section one, that food safety team leaders be trained in advanced HACCP, (FETAC level 6), the need for competency, and confidence in risk assessment, legislation, validation and verification has nev...

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Happy Christmas!!!

Happy Christmas everyone!!! It’s getting very festive altogether here in the SQT office… …well, that is once we eventually found our tree! (without fail we’re always scratching our heads come December – we should take bets next year on who will remember...

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Cost savings from Lean Six Sigma training continue

We have been delivering Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt training for the past 10 years. Our training is mostly in Ireland but increasingly we have started to deliver training overseas. We now have an International section on our website, Recently we have tracked the co...

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Health and Safety at work

A look at the statistics for fatal workplace injuries shows that the annual number of fatalities for 2012 has reduced. This is to be welcomed. Allowing for the decrease in construction activity, the number of fatalaties is still decreasing. The following table shows workplace fat...

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