About this course
About this course
Threat Assessment and Critical Control Points (TACCP) is the methodology BRCGS and other standards expect sites to apply to deliberate threats, including malicious contamination, extortion, cyber threats and extremist action. This one-day virtual programme teaches the TACCP methodology and shows how to apply it alongside HACCP and VACCP without duplication.
Who should attend
The course is designed for technical managers, quality managers, security managers, site leadership teams and HACCP team members with responsibility for food defence. It is equally relevant to consultants supporting clients through BRCGS certification and to brand-owner technical staff assessing supplier TACCP frameworks as part of supplier approval programmes.
What the programme covers
Sessions cover the definition of threat versus hazard versus vulnerability, the TACCP methodology itself, threat identification across physical, personnel, supply chain and cyber domains, threat scoring frameworks, control measure selection, documentation standards and the evidence auditors expect during certification. The programme addresses how to handle the confidentiality challenges of a TACCP assessment, how to manage threat information without either under-sharing or over-distributing sensitive content, and how to integrate TACCP outputs with HACCP, VACCP and wider site security planning. Case studies from published food defence incidents are used to stress-test methodology and show what effective threat management looks like in practice.
Assessment and certification
Delegates complete a written assessment at the end of the programme. A pass earns a certificate of achievement, suitable for technical file inclusion during BRCGS certification and for continuing professional development records.
Course format and delivery
The programme runs as a single full-day live virtual session. Delivery combines methodology teaching with case study discussion from real food defence incidents and structured exercises in threat identification and scoring. Delegates receive TACCP templates and documentation guidance for use after the course.
Why this matters
TACCP is one of the clauses where auditors most commonly find superficial or generic evidence, typically because the assessment has been copied from published examples without genuine site-specific analysis. A team that understands the methodology produces sharper, more defensible threat assessments and reduces the risk of a food defence incident leading to business loss. The course pairs naturally with the BRCGS HACCP programme for hazard framework context, with the VACCP-focused BRCGS Vulnerability Assessment course for the fraud side of the food defence framework, and with the Food Safety Issue 9 Sites Training for wider certification knowledge.
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