Product Packaging

$ 199

Time

2.0 Hours

Modules

6 Lessons

Learning Recognition Framework (LRF) Level

Level 1 Foundations

Recognition Certificate

12k Enrolled

Course description

Refine how products are presented, protected, and preserved. This course equips frontline food production employees with essential knowledge and practical, scenario-based learning to understand the critical role of packaging in food safety, product quality, and regulatory compliance in Canada. Participants will explore common packaging materials, equipment, and techniques, along with labeling requirements and inspection practices used throughout food processing operations. The course highlights how proper packaging protects products from biological, chemical, and physical hazards, extends shelf life, and supports brand reputation. By understanding each stage of the packaging process, employees across production, sanitation, labeling, and food safety functions help safeguard product integrity from production to consumer.

Skills you will learn:

  • Packaging safety basics
  • Labeling compliance
  • Hazard protection
  • Shelf-life preservation

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
  • Understand packaging’s role in food safety and customer trust by explaining why packaging and labeling matter and how they prevent biological, chemical, and physical contamination.
  • Select the right packaging solutions by comparing common materials, their properties, pros and cons, innovative trends, and packaging techniques used in the industry.
  • Operate within compliance and control standards by applying packaging and labeling regulations, using standardized samples, managing receiving deviations, and executing changeovers correctly.
  • Run fill-and-seal processes safely and consistently by using required PPE and hygiene equipment, following lockout/tagout, selecting the right filling equipment, and completing sealing and end-of-run procedures for bottles and cans.

Who Should Take This Course?

  • Understand the purpose and importance of packaging in food processing.
  • Identify packaging materials and their appropriate applications.
  • Apply proper inspection, sealing, and labeling procedures.
  • Recognize how packaging affects product quality, safety, and presentation.

Course Outline & Major Topics

  1. The Role of Food Packaging Materials in the Food Industry
  2. The Properties of Various Food Packaging Materials
  3. Special Packaging Techniques Used in Various Food Processing Industries
  4. Monitoring Packaging Quality and Safety
  5. Perform Packaging Change during Changeovers
  6. The "Fill and Seal" Packaging Technique

Course description

This course provides an understanding of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and the importance of having a food safety program. This introductory program outlines how every person working at that facility can have either a positive or a negative impact on food safety. Participants should be able to explain the benefits of a HACCP system, understand hazards and how they can be controlled, and the importance of GMP and Prerequisite Programs.

You will learn that food safety hazards are; biological, chemical, or physical substances that can make a food product unsafe to eat and cause illness, injury or death if consumed. You will also learn how biological, chemical, and physical hazards can be harmful to human health and how to prevent and control them.

Skills you will learn:

Food Safety

Cleaning

Quality Assurance

Hazards

Decumention

Pest Sources

Chemical Hazards

Learning Objectives

Once you have completed the course, you will have obtained the skills to understand the importance and benefits of food safety. What a HACCP system is and who invented it including:

Who Should Take This Course?

Course Outline & Major Topics

What is a Food Safety Program (HACCP System)

*Receive a nationally recognized certificate for participation in this course

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