Management Systems Auditor + Developing HACCP Plans

The skills to build a HACCP plan and to audit one.

Behind every safe product on a supermarket shelf, every export certificate, and every retailer audit passed, there is someone who knew how to trace the food safety system from producer to plate and prove it works. That person could be you.

This bundle pairs complete ISO lead auditor training with hands-on HACCP plan development. Food safety is one of the most heavily audited disciplines in the world: retailers audit suppliers, importers audit exporters, and certification underpins market access at every step of the chain. The Management Systems Auditor course builds your management system auditing foundation to ISO 19011:2026, with remote auditing methods from ISO/IEC TS 17012:2024 integrated throughout. Developing HACCP Plans then takes you through the twelve Codex steps, the five preliminaries and the seven principles, so you can build a complete HACCP plan and understand the food safety system an auditor examines.

The bundle is open to everyone, and it suits compliance career development at any stage. No prior auditing or food industry experience is needed, whether you are starting fresh or formalising skills you already use in production, quality assurance, or technical roles.

The management system auditing methodology you build here also transfers across legislative and regulatory compliance contexts, food regulation included.

As you complete each course you are issued its credential: two Exemplar Global Certificates of Attainment (TPECS) covering AU26 and TL26 for Management Systems Auditor, and a Certificate of Attainment (RTP) in HACCP plan development for Developing HACCP Plans. Together they show you can both audit a management system and build the food safety plans that sit inside one.

Who this bundle is for

Food safety auditing runs on people who understand that the paperwork and the production floor have to tell the same story. Some come up through QA and technical roles, others start in auditing and grow into the discipline. Both routes work here:

• Newcomers building an auditing career in one of the most consistently audited industries in the world
• QA, technical, and food safety professionals formalising the audit side of their role
• Internal auditors who want to add food safety and HACCP to their first-party audit scope
• Aspiring external and certification auditors building a food safety audit portfolio
• Supplier and second-party auditors evaluating food chain partners for retailers, brands, and importers
• Consultants advising food businesses on HACCP plans and food safety system maturity
• Teams and organisations building in-house food safety audit capability, with group enrolment available through ATOL corporate training
• Anyone building toward Exemplar Global Lead Auditor personnel certification with a food safety focus

What you'll be able to do after this bundle

Professional auditing credentials matter most when they map to what you can actually do. By the time you complete both courses, you will be able to:

• Plan, conduct, and lead management system audits using a consistent ISO 19011:2026 methodology
• Lead an audit team through every stage of an audit, from initiation and planning through to reporting and corrective action follow-up
• Build a complete HACCP plan through all twelve Codex steps, from hazard analysis to documentation and records
• Identify and analyse biological, chemical, physical, and allergenic hazards, and determine critical control points
• Set critical limits, monitoring, corrective actions, verification, and records that keep a HACCP plan working
• Audit effectively in on-site, remote, and hybrid environments using ISO/IEC TS 17012:2024 methods
• Write audit findings and reports that are clear, accurate, fair, and useful to the organisation
• Demonstrate two Exemplar Global Certificates of Attainment and a Certificate of Attainment (RTP) in HACCP plan development to employers, clients, and certification bodies

What you'll learn

Two courses, one structured learning pathway. Each theme below builds on the one before it.

Auditing any management system with confidence

Before you can audit food safety effectively, you need to understand how auditing works. The Management Systems Auditor course builds that foundation using ISO 19011:2026 and ISO/IEC TS 17012:2024 for remote auditing. You will learn the seven auditing principles, how to plan and manage an audit programme, collect and evaluate evidence, run opening and closing meetings, document findings, and lead a team through a complete audit from initiation to follow-up.

Where food safety starts: hazards, hygiene, and the law

Before you build a plan, you need the ground it stands on. Developing HACCP Plans covers food safety hazards, microbiology, food composition and hygiene, prerequisite programs, and the Codex Alimentarius and FSANZ food safety legislation that HACCP plans have to satisfy.

Building the HACCP plan, step by step

The course then works through the twelve Codex steps in order: the five preliminaries that set up the plan, and the seven principles where food safety is won or lost, from hazard analysis and critical control points through to monitoring, corrective action, verification, and record keeping. You finish with a HACCP plan you have actually built, and a clear view of where food safety systems break down between the manual and the floor.

For the full module-by-module breakdown across both courses, see the Modules tab above.

Tools and resources included