MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS VERIFICATION

Course Details

This course provides structured, practical training on the verification of control and measuring instruments used in food safety and quality management systems. Accurate monitoring equipment is critical for ensuring regulatory compliance, product safety, and process control. The programme combines theoretical principles with hands-on verification techniques for thermometers and weighing scales.

Participants will gain clarity on the distinction between verification and calibration, understand regulatory expectations, and apply practical verification methods aligned with food safety standards and prerequisite programme (PRP) requirements.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Explain why instrument verification is critical to food safety
• Differentiate between verification and calibration
• Perform thermometer verification correctly
• Conduct scale eccentricity testing
• Apply corrective actions when deviations occur
• Maintain and store instruments properly

Course Outline

1.  Importance of Control Instrument verification

1.1. Five (5) elements of monitoring

2. Verification vs Calibration of Measuring Instruments

3.  Handheld Thermometer Verification

3.1. Preparation & verification at 3 points

3.2.  Corrective action

3.3. Temperature danger zone

4.  Scales Practical Verification Method (Eccentricity Test)

4.1. Preparation & verification using eccentricity test

4.2. Weight tolerances

4.3. Corrective action

5.  Maintenance and Storage of measurement instruments

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About Us

Iyalago Food Assurance Consultants cc (IFAC) is a consulting company based in Walvis Bay Namibia. It was founded in 2017 by two experts in food safety and production in the food industry. Iyalago provides food safety

and quality assurance interventions such as training, auditing, and consulting services to food businesses and individuals as prerequisites to access local and international markets. Local and international food businesses value IFAC’s services which highly enable them to optimize their current food safety and quality management systems. This is done through interactive employee training and assistance in obtaining certification from various regulatory and certification bodies.

Iyalago Food Assurance Consultants’ style of instruction boosts a unique learning model that encourages application of topics that participants can directly apply to new and existing food safety systems. The courses are offered in person for maximum interaction and cover content that encourages live collaboration and peer-to-peer learning.

The Iyalago team has a combination of over thirty years industry experience and knowledge obtained through working in the food industry, providing a great advantage in facilitating the training courses offered.

Iyalago’s hands-on training courses follow a smart approach, which are offered in various languages to all skill-levels; inclusive of food safety management requirements and their application to food businesses.

Learn about our services and how they contribute to Food safety globally, on www.iyalago.com