Practical maintenance training for the food industry

Effective maintenance isn’t just about preventing equipment breakdowns.

Within the food industry, maintenance also has a critical role in protecting product safety, quality and legality, maintaining the condition of the facility and equipment, and ensuring that equipment continues to operate consistently and as intended.

Our Maintenance Training for the Food Industry provides engineering, maintenance and technical teams with a practical approach to developing, implementing and managing a compliant maintenance system.

The course brings together maintenance compliance, maintenance system management, day-to-day maintenance workflow and project management, so that learners understand not only what needs to be controlled, but how those controls work together.

Course duration: 4 hours | Certificate: Digital
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Who is this maintenance training course for?

This course is designed for people who are responsible or accountable for maintenance within food and related manufacturing businesses, including:

• Engineering managers
• Maintenance managers and leads
• Engineers
• Project managers
• Technical managers
• Staff responsible for equipment, maintenance or engineering compliance

It’s particularly useful for businesses that want their engineering and maintenance teams to understand how their activities link directly to product safety and certification requirements.

What does the maintenance management course cover?

The course contains four units:

Unit 1: Understanding Maintenance Compliance
Develop a clear understanding of why maintenance controls are important and how maintenance can affect product safety, quality, legality and operational performance. Learners are introduced to the different elements of the maintenance system and how planned preventive maintenance, maintenance workflow management and project management work together. The unit also considers maintenance culture and the progression from reactive maintenance towards a more proactive approach.

Unit 2: Managing the Maintenance System
Learn how to develop and manage the overall maintenance system and the procedures required to control maintenance activities. This includes defining the scope of the system, responsibilities, equipment and materials controls, maintenance facilities, contractors, maintenance records and the arrangements needed to ensure that maintenance doesn’t introduce a risk to product.

Unit 3: Maintenance Workflow Management
Learn how to control the day-to-day maintenance activities taking place within the facility. The unit covers the practical management of maintenance work, including breakdowns and repairs, temporary repairs, equipment handback, tools and materials, lubricants, calibration and other controls needed to ensure that maintenance work doesn’t compromise the product or production environment.

Unit 4: Project Management
Learn how to manage changes to facilities and equipment using a structured, risk-based project management process. The course covers projects of different sizes, from relatively small equipment or facility changes through to larger projects, and explains how risks must be identified and controlled throughout the process. It also covers equipment commissioning and the checks needed before new or modified equipment is released into production.

Compliant to the following standards

• BRCGS Food Safety
• BRCGS Packaging
• BRCGS Storage & Distribution