THE BRCGS PLANT BASED TRADEMARK STANDARD, ONE DAY OR BOLT ON
Is your company preparing to update its BRCGS food safety program to meet the Plant Based Certification Program Global Standard?
1 - Gap analysis: Create a fast, practical action plan in your time with your resource
To START the route to certification, the on-site gap analysis will assess the existing level of compliance. A gap analysis will assess:
What food safety systems are currently in place focused on PBCP requirements
How current systems compare to requirements of the standard standalone PBCP OR Combined with BRCGS and PBCP standards together
Paperwork systems (Provision of documented templates)
Fabrication
Personnel requirements – Training awareness in PBCP requirements
FOCUSED & PRACTICAL GAP-ANALYSIS
01. SENIOR MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT
Commitment at a senior level is essential including your new food safety culture plan. Hayfields gives you that comitmment
“Action plan that meets Plant based & Culture plan.”
02. THE FOOD SAFETY PLAN – HACCP
Hayfields designs and supports your HACCP system to inlcude Plant based smoothly.
“We provide a HACCP plan based on PBCP requirements and associated documents & records including HACCP review report. We can be part of review HACCP team to support your compliance easy and quickly.”
03. PBMS Maintenance & Reassessment
The PBMS team needs to review the PBMS at least annually, and prior to any changes that may affect product integrity. Hayfields can support directly, your training, documention, and the validation.
“We can be part of review HACCP and senior management team to support your compliance easy and quickly.”
04. Documentation and Records
The site shall have a procedure to manage documents that form part of the PBMS. Hayfields are your BRCGS approved auditor or competent authority.
“We provide the gap analysis, action plan but more than this, we ensure your Culture plan is intergrated as well.”
05. Internal Audits
Internal audits conducted by Hayfields means Plant Based compliance by an experienced demonstrably competent independant auditor. Cuture plan is inlcuded as a way to measure against time scales
“We provide Plant Based comprehensive fully compliant internal audits, especially important where your site handles animal based materials“
Support
We are here to provide ready access to any queries regarding supporting publications, and additional resources quickly and easily via our information management system (Clause 1.1.9)
Training
Hayfields Consultancy Ltd can provide specific PBCP awareness training for shop floor, supervisors and management alike to meet the standards need for specific PBCP training requirements. Training will ensure understanding and implementing the Plant-Based Global Standard, as well as specific food safety topics such as HACCP, root cause analysis, and vulnerability assessment (assessment of food fraud risks).
Alternatively visit BRCGS Training page on https://www.brcgsbookshop.com/bookshop/e-learning-/c-24/c-82
GAP ANALYSIS RESULTS
The results of a gap analysis will highlight any areas of weakness and expose what will need to be improved or introduced in order to achieve certification/s.
LEARN
Visit the BRC Global Standards website
Contact BRC Global Standards for more information
PREPARE FOR AUDIT
Select an audit option (stand-alone or combined)
Perform a self-assessment to determine compliance with the Standard
Select a CB
Provide Information to CB for audit preparation
Define audit date
POST AUDIT
Ongoing maintenance of the Standard and Continual Improvement
Use of PBCP logo
Ongoing communication with certification body
Schedule re-audit date before re-audit due date
APPLY
Apply to the program
Download the PBCP Global Standard and associated documents
ON-SITE AUDIT
Opening Meeting
Site Inspection
Document Review
Traceability Challenge
Final Review of Finding by auditor
Closing Meeting
DOWNLOAD THE PLANT-BASED GLOBAL STANDARD
Printed copies of the Plant-Based Global Standard can be purchased from the BRCGS bookshop, with the digital version available to download FREE of charge at brcgsbookshop.com
PROGRAM LICENSE AGREEMENT
Enter into a Program Lisence Agreement (PLA) outlining terms and conditions, manufacturing site locations, brands and sku's and annual licence fees
Submit a Schedule A
NON-CONFORMANCES AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS
Corrective actions provided for any non-conformances identified within 28 days
CB reviews evidence within 14 days
If corrective actions deemed satisfactory, certificate of recognition and audit report issued