{"id":5315,"date":"2017-02-21T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vwa.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:17:45","slug":"excellence-food-safety-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/excellence-food-safety-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellence in food safety training recognised by leading provider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scarcely a week goes by without some type of food scare or product recall, so it\u2019s heartening to know that there are hundreds of companies who take the business of food safety seriously. Several of those undertake food safety training, HACCP training and the Auditing Skills course with leading training provider, Verner Wheelock<\/a>, based on the Broughton Hall Business Park in Skipton.<\/p>\n

Last year the company introduced its first ever Verner Wheelock Excellence Awards to coincide with 25 years in business. They proved so popular that they have become an annual event.<\/p>\n

\"Winner
Kathryn Broadburn of F Smales and Sons receives her award from Rachel Coote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Awards recognise the achievement of students who have undertaken courses with the company in the previous year. There are five awards in total: HACCP<\/a> Student of the Year, Food Safety<\/a> Student of the Year, Auditing<\/a> Student of the Year, Individual Excellence Award and Company of the Year.<\/p>\n

The Winners<\/h3>\n

This year\u2019s winners were from a variety of different companies.<\/p>\n

Kathryn Broadburn – F Smales & Sons<\/h3>\n

The Auditing Student of the Year was won by Kathryn Broadburn, a Technical Manager at Grimsby-based fish merchants, F Smales & Sons. Verner Wheelock MD, Alison Wheelock, said, \u201cAuditing is an essential element of the food manufacturing process, especially for completion of a successful BRC audit, and in light of the emphasis on combating food fraud throughout the supply chain. Kathryn was an exceptional student on our FDQ Lead Auditor<\/a> Certificate course and achieved the highest marks of the year in her examination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Shields – Symingtons<\/h3>\n

Winner of the Food Safety<\/a> Student of the Year was Chris Shields from the Consett site of Symingtons which produces the \u2018Look what we found\u2019 and ilumi brands, amongst other products. \u201cSymingtons were winners of the Verner Wheelock Company Excellence Award<\/a> last year,\u201d said Alison, \u201cand we\u2019re delighted to present Chris with the award for Food Safety Excellence this year, following his food safety training course. There was fierce competition for this award, so he has done particularly well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tina
Tina Sayers of PAS Grantham with her HACCP Student of the Year Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tina Sayers – PAS Grantham<\/h3>\n

The HACCP Student of the Year award went to Tina Sayers, Technical Account Manager, of PAS Grantham Ltd, which is a subsidiary of frozen potato company McCain (GB) Limited. \u201cTina achieved a distinction in her RSPH Level 4 Award in HACCP for Food Manufacturing examination and showed a real aptitude for her subject”, said Alison.<\/p>\n

Sharron Jacques – Harper Green Junior School<\/h3>\n

The winner of the Individual Excellence Award came from one of Verner Wheelock\u2019s specialist courses, \u2018Training the Trainer\u2019<\/a>. Successful completion of the course and examination enables delegates to provide training up to a stated level within their own companies, or to become a freelance trainer<\/a>. The accolade this time went to Sharron Jacques, a Senior Catering Officer, at Harper Green Junior School in Bolton, Lancashire. She was nominated by course tutor, Judith Sunderland, who said, \u201cSharron\u2019s enthusiasm was excellent and she gave the funniest micro-teach of the food handler from hell that I have seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"HACCP
Anna Skirkowska and Chris Pinder of pladis Group accept their Company Excellence Award from Alison Wheelock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

pladis Group<\/h3>\n

Last, but by no means least, is the winner of the Company Excellence Award<\/a>. This was presented to Strategic Functional Development & Training Director, Anna Skirkowska, based at the Halifax site of the pladis Group (formerly United Biscuits). There are seven pladis sites in the UK, producing sweet and savoury biscuits and cakes, including McVities, Carr\u2019s and Jacobs brands.<\/p>\n

Anna said, \u201cWe are thrilled to receive this award. We have been using Verner Wheelock to provide HACCP and food safety training and many other courses for our staff for nearly 20 years and the feedback we receive has always been very positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alison Wheelock added, \u201cWe decided to present the award to pladis Group because we believe their commitment to food safety, and to training, is second to none. We\u2019ve delivered several courses across the full spectrum of food safety training, HACCP, auditing and specialist courses such as Root Cause Analysis, VACCP and TACCP and Managing Food Allergens, both here at our training centre in Skipton and across Pladis\u2019 various sites. The delegates have all been enthusiastic and achieved good examination results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scarcely a week goes by without some type of food scare or product recall, so it\u2019s heartening to know that there are hundreds of companies who take the business of food safety seriously. Several of those undertake food safety training, HACCP training and the Auditing Skills course with leading training provider, Verner Wheelock, based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-safety-hygiene-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}