Free on-demand masterclass · ~20 minutes
Building a HACCP plan: the 12 steps, a worked hazard analysis, and where CCPs end and OPRPs begin
Most HACCP plans that fail an audit do not fail on the microbiology — they fail on the logic of the paperwork. This masterclass walks the whole Codex method on one worked product, a cooked sliced ready-to-eat chicken breast: the five steps that happen before you analyse a single hazard, the hazard analysis with a significance rule you can defend, five plain-English questions that return CCP, OPRP or prerequisite programme, critical limits and the validation behind them, and the six findings auditors write most often. Narrated slides, no fluff, watch on demand.
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The masterclass covers the method. The free HACCP Flow Diagram & Product Description Template is the working file for the first five steps — both documents with a note on every field saying what belongs there and why it matters later, the same cooked ready-to-eat worked example used in the video, and a 12-point health check with a live score for the flow diagram and product description you already have.
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What you'll learn
01 · The twelve steps
Why the seven principles are only steps six to twelve — and why nearly every weak plan rushed steps two to five and then built everything else on a foundation that could not carry it.
02 · Steps 1 to 5 — the foundation
The team and what qualifies them; the product description fields that decide which hazards are credible; the two intended-use sentences that set severity through the whole study; the flow diagram and the steps most diagrams leave out; and the on-site walk that confirms it.
03 · Principle 1 — the hazard analysis
All four hazard types at every step, what likelihood and severity are each rating, a documented significance rule with the full 5x5 matrix, and why the justification column is the one an auditor reads first.
04 · Principle 2 — determination
Five plain-English questions that return CCP, OPRP, controlled by a prerequisite programme, controlled at a later step, or modify the process — plus the honest test for telling a CCP from an OPRP, and the two ways this goes wrong.
05 · The worked example
A cooked, sliced, ready-to-eat chicken breast: fifteen process steps, sixteen hazard lines, and how they resolve into three CCPs and three OPRPs.
06 · Principles 3 to 7 — the plan itself
Critical limits and the validation basis behind them, monitoring fast enough to act, correction kept apart from corrective action, verification and reverification, and naming the actual record.
07 · ISO 22000, six common findings and a 30-day plan
What ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000 add to Codex, the six findings auditors write most often, and a thirty-day order of work.
Then build the plan itself
The masterclass covers the method. The free HACCP Flow Diagram & Product Description Template below is Codex steps 1 to 5 as working documents, with the same worked example and a 12-point health check. The HACCP Plan Toolkit takes it from there — significance calculated from likelihood and severity, the five determination questions answered by formula, both plans and a verification schedule.
Independent guidance from Qlause, in our own words: this masterclass reproduces no Codex, ISO or scheme text. It is not accredited training, not a food-handler or Person-in-Charge certificate, and not FSSC-licensed training. The worked example is illustrative — determine and validate every hazard, critical limit and control for your own product, process and legislation, and where your scheme, customer or national legislation prescribes a particular decision tree or plan format, use theirs.