This free online course explores key concepts and components of ISO 22000:2018 needed for Food Safety Management Systems

Food safety risks continue to expand worldwide as supply chains grow more complex and public expectations increase. Organisations face pressure to demonstrate robust controls while navigating changing regulations, inconsistent guidance, and rising scrutiny. This course addresses these challenges by providing a structured and practical path to understanding ISO 22000:2018. It offers clarity in an environment often shaped by misinformation and media propaganda, helping you make sense of what effective food safety management truly requires.

This course builds a strong foundation in the evolution, structure, and core principles of food safety management systems. It explains how organisational context, leadership commitment, risk management, and operational control work together to support consistent food safety performance. It also clarifies the roles of OPRPs, CCPs, monitoring, measurement, internal audits, and continual improvement, enabling you to interpret ISO 22000:2018 requirements with confidence and apply them in real operational settings.

This course strengthens your ability to identify risks, improve processes, and maintain reliable food safety controls across your organisation. It enhances your decision-making by connecting global standards with practical actions that support resilience and compliance. You gain the insight needed to respond to performance issues, guide improvement efforts, and meet growing expectations for safe food production. This course provides a clear step forward in developing strong, confident, and accountable food safety practice.

This course content was created in partnership with Youssef Bensghir, MSc Food Quality Management from Salford University, UK. For more information on our subject matter expert, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/youssef-bensghir-811bab25/

The authors generated this text in part with ChatGPT, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft language, the authors and subject matter experts reviewed, edited, and revised the text to ensure it reflected accurate expertise and met high pedagogical standards.

Enrol now to gain practical ISO 22000 skills to manage food safety risks, strengthen processes, and build compliant systems.