Internal and Supplier Auditing Practices based on Food Safety Management Systems Training Course in South Africa (FS26)
This internal and supplier auditing training course helps learners build practical competence in FSMS-based auditing, internal audit planning, supplier audit practices, audit reporting and audit programme improvement for food businesses in South Africa and beyond.
Choose the auditing training format that best suits your learners, audit needs and operational requirements
This FS26 internal and supplier auditing course supports online self-paced learning, virtual instructor-led classroom training and onsite physical classroom delivery for businesses and teams in South Africa.
Online Self-paced Training
A flexible auditing learning option for individuals or businesses that want learners to start at any time, work through the material independently and complete the course at their own pace.
- ✓Flexible online self-paced course access
- ✓Duration: 20 hours
- ✓Start at any time
- ✓Useful for remote learners and budget-conscious teams
Virtual Classroom Training
Live Zoom-based internal and supplier auditing training for QA personnel, auditors, managers and technical teams who need facilitated explanation, guided discussion and practical examples.
- ✓Instructor-led virtual classroom
- ✓Duration: 2.5 days
- ✓Presented via Zoom
- ✓Suitable for public bookings and team development
Physical Classroom Training
A face-to-face classroom option for organisations that need onsite or in-house internal and supplier audit training for food safety, quality assurance and technical teams.
- ✓Onsite or in-house delivery
- ✓Duration: 2.5 days
- ✓Suitable for company audit teams and management personnel
- ✓Minimum learner numbers may apply
Designed for stronger internal audit competence, supplier audit confidence and better FSMS verification performance
This programme is especially valuable for organisations that need capable internal auditors, stronger supplier auditing practices and improved audit programme effectiveness across food safety management systems.
Audit programme understanding
The course explains how to establish, implement, manage and improve an internal auditing programme based on Food Safety Management System requirements and practical auditing objectives.
Internal and supplier audit competence
Learners strengthen their ability to prepare for audits, gather evidence, generate findings, report objectively and support continual improvement through both internal and supplier audit activities.
Standards-based application
The course supports practical auditing relevance across FSMS-based standards such as ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, BRCGS, GLOBALG.A.P., IFS and related systems used in food businesses.
Course Introduction
This internal and supplier auditing practices course based on Food Safety Management Systems equips learners with the practical knowledge and structured understanding needed to become more effective internal and supplier auditors in food handling and food manufacturing environments.
- ✓Focus on FSMS-based internal and supplier auditing skills
- ✓Explains auditing tools, audit planning, findings and reporting
- ✓Supports improvement of existing audit programmes and auditor competence
Delegates receive helpful auditing templates and are expected to perform a practical internal audit activity as part of the assessment process.
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for people directly involved in internal auditing, supplier auditing, quality assurance, quality control and Food Safety Management System implementation or maintenance.
- ✓Internal auditors and supplier auditors
- ✓QA managers, QA personnel and technical managers
- ✓QC managers and food safety system personnel
- ✓Companies certified or implementing ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, BRCGS, GLOBALG.A.P., IFS or similar systems
Minimum prerequisites: the learner should already have implementation-level knowledge, previous training or equivalent experience in a Food Safety Management System standard such as ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, BRCGS, IFS or a related scheme.
Key topics covered in the FS26 internal and supplier auditing practices training course
The course outline below reflects the main internal auditing, supplier auditing, audit programme management and standards-based FSMS auditing topics covered during this advanced programme.
The audit process and audit programme management
- ✓What a food safety audit is
- ✓Standards-based food safety audits
- ✓The importance of food safety audits
- ✓Different audit categories
- ✓Auditing tools and audit principles
- ✓Managing the audit programme
- ✓Establishing the audit programme
- ✓Determining audit programme resources
- ✓Implementing an audit programme
- ✓Selecting audit team members
- ✓Assigning audit responsibility to the audit team leader
- ✓Managing audit programme results and records
- ✓Monitoring the audit programme
Conducting audits and auditor competence
- ✓Initiating the audit
- ✓Audit planning
- ✓Generating audit findings
- ✓Determining audit conclusions
- ✓Preparing and distributing the audit report
- ✓Food safety auditor requirements
- ✓Roles and responsibilities of auditors
- ✓Audit process summary and practical expectations
- ✓Preparing to conduct a GAP audit
- ✓Internal and supplier auditing requirements for the relevant standard
- ✓Overview of the relevant standard’s auditing protocol
- ✓Workplace assignment and classroom assessment
What learners and food businesses gain from this FSMS internal and supplier auditing course
The aim is stronger auditing competence, better internal verification performance and more confident application of audit tools, findings and reporting requirements.
Better practical auditing ability
Learners should leave with a better understanding of internal audits, supplier audits, audit programme weaknesses, evidence gathering, findings and reporting within FSMS-based environments.
Certificate of achievement
The learner receives a certificate of achievement after successful completion. A course pass rate of 70% is required to receive the course certificate.
Useful workplace application
This course supports practical workplace value for businesses that need stronger internal auditors, better supplier monitoring and more effective audit systems for continual improvement.
Upcoming virtual internal and supplier auditing classroom training events
Bookings in advance are strongly recommended. If no public dates are shown, on-demand virtual classroom and onsite physical classroom delivery can still be arranged for companies and teams in South Africa.
Time: 09:00 am to 04:30 pm (Timezone UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Need FS26 pricing, registration support or onsite internal auditing training details?
If you need support with FS26 course registration, internal and supplier auditing training enquiries, virtual classroom delivery, onsite team training, pricing or learner planning, complete the form and ASC Food Safety Consultants will review your request.
Common questions about the FS26 internal and supplier auditing course
Explore more FSMS, auditing and food safety related training courses
These related training pages support internal linking, topic relevance and progression through the ASC food safety and management systems training pathway.
Questions, feedback and comments
Use the discussion area below to ask a question, share feedback or read previous replies about this internal and supplier auditing training course.
0 Comments
Recent questions and responses from learners and the ASC team.