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Food quality and hygiene technician
Guaranteeing a food product is safe requires a system: HACCP plan, checks, traceability, non-conformity handling. The quality technician builds and runs that system, station by station, batch by batch.
Keeping a quality system alive
The HACCP plan shapes the day: identified critical points, target values, check frequencies. The technician samples, measures, records, and verifies that operator records are genuinely kept. A non-conformity triggers a precise chain — isolate the batch, trace the cause, decide the product's fate, correct durably. Internal audits complete the arrangement, and training production teams is its most effective part over the long run.
- Build and update a HACCP plan for each production line
- Take samples and run checks, on products and on surfaces
- Handle a non-conformity from batch isolation to corrective action
- Run an internal audit and train production teams
A requirement that keeps spreading
Processing units
Juices, flours, oils, dried products: access to modern retail and to export runs through a documented quality system.
Beverage industries
In-house laboratories, frequent checks, strict cleaning plans: the sector's most structured organisations.
Catering and hospitality
Mine site canteens, hotels, caterers: sanitary control there is contractual as much as regulatory.
What the qualification commits to, figure by figure
These values come from the official catalogue filed with the ministry, and they can be recomputed. One credit stands for twenty-five hours of work, ten of them taught by an instructor. Multiply the credits by ten and you land on the hours shown below. That is the very calculation an equivalence office runs when it opens a file, and you can run it before you even apply.
- qualification level
- 5
- months of programme
- 10
- taught hours
- 700 h
- credits
- 70
- competency blocks
- 5
Senior technician and supervisor
Led by an instructor.
1 credit = 25 h of work, 10 of them taught.
Framework of the « Food Quality and Hygiene Technician » qualification, code TP54.
The framework, block by block
The qualification is built from competency blocks. Each is assessed separately, on real output, and each carries its own hours. From day one you know what you are working on, in what order, and what each part weighs. The blocks add up exactly to the total shown above: both figures come from the same document.
- 01
Food safety
Biological, chemical and physical hazards, HACCP, the food safety plan — 200 taught hours.
- 02
Quality control and laboratory
Sampling, routine analyses, interpretation, non-conformity — 180 taught hours.
- 03
Traceability and crisis management
Upstream and downstream traceability, withdrawal and recall, alert handling — 160 taught hours.
- 04
Internal audit and standards
Hygiene audits, sector standards, action plans — 120 taught hours.
- 05
Professional conduct
Stopping a non-compliant production run, training teams — 40 taught hours.
Building a quality skill set
The programmes below build the skills this role mobilises. Each row shows what the institute commits to: duration, credits, taught hours and fees in Guinean francs, read straight from the catalogue. You compare on the same basis as the admissions office, with exactly the same figures.
| Programme | Duration | Credits | Taught hours | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health, Industrial Safety and Environment · Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 120 | 1200 h | 5 400 000 GNF per year |
| Certificate in Industrial Site Safety Management · Professional certification | 6 months | 18 | 180 h | 3 800 000 GNF in total |
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