The Food Standards Agency have produced both a Competency Assessment Record to be used by individual officers to demonstrate their compliance with the Competency Framework as well as a Summary Record for Lead Officers to demonstrate compliance by their team.

Competency Assessment Record

Please click here for the full record or on the links below to download the relevant sections.

• Guidance
• Officer Competency Summary
• A Common Competencies
• B1 Inspecting businesses
• B2 Auditing
• B3 Validation
• B4 Verification
• B5 Sampling
• B6 Assessing Products
• B7 Education, advice and coaching
• B8 Information Gathering
• B9 Monitoring
• B 10 Surveillance
• B 11 Alternative interventions
• C1 Reactive investigations
• D1 Informal action
• D2 Formal enforcement action
• D3 Prosecuting
• E1 Operational management
• E2 Import controls
• E3 Export controls
• E4 Assessing Industry assurance of compliance
• E5 Supporting external audits
• E6 Shellfish environmental monitoring
• E7 Specific processing methods
• E8 Specific products
• E9 Approval of businesses