This course will delve into the principles of risk assessment, implementing corrective action and root cause analysis. These skills are essential to developing and managing an effective food safety system. Risk assessment provides the foundation for identifying food safety hazards in an operation, developing the risk profile of the hazards identified as well as the controls necessary to effectively manage the risk to product safety. When non-conforming events occur in an operation it is important to implement corrective actions that are highly effective. Root cause analysis is an essential component of corrective action and provides the methods necessary to identify the true cause of a non-conforming event so as to properly address the source of an issue.