AIB International Launches Online Course for Preventive Control

AIB International and ImEpik launch HARPC Online course for preventive control support teams.

The course is hosted on AIB’s online platform, LearningLab@AIB. HARPC Online is directed at the preventive controls support team, addressing the challenge faced by thousands of food plants now required to record and verify food safety training.

“Our clients, like most of the food industry, face the challenge of providing consistent, documented food safety training for their personnel who support the preventive controls qualified individual with the development and execution of the preventive controls plan (HARPC)”, said Anthony Raschke, director of food safety services innovation, AIB.

In HARPC Online, food industry employees take a pathway through FSMA’s required components for a food safety plan, including hazard analysis, preventive controls, monitoring, verification and validation procedures, developing a recall plan, recordkeeping procedures, and GMPs.
Lessons also address food defense, foreign supplier verification program, and creating a food safety culture. Learners work through product-specific case scenarios that culminate with development of a food safety plan outline.
In the online environment, training advances at an individualized pace, and meets the preferred learning styles of a wide variety of students.