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All the documents you need to Get MSC certification
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MSC Certification through the ROC Group is a simple process, and there's not a great deal of paperwork involved. Here is everything you need
1. ROC Group Handbook
The key document for MSC Certification - it outlines the simple traceability systems which must be in place in your restaurant.
These systems are designed to ensure that MSC fish is not substituted with non-MSC fish within your business, so the ecolabel is always used against fish which is genuinely from an MSC certified fishery.
Read this document first
3. Training Materials
As part of the requirements, you are required to carry out some staff training. These materials are all you need to ensure staff understand what they need to do:
Training Session Presentation Training Film
Including a quiz and Welcome your staff to
training record sheet MSC Certification
2. Application Form
Once you are confident that the requirements outlined in the Handbook are in place, you can apply to become certified by completing the online application form
4. Audit Checklists
Once your Application Form has been received, you will be contacted to arrange a suitable date for the Group Manager to visit to check that the requirements outlined in the Handbook are in place. In some cases a more convenient online checklist can be completed - the Group manager will let you know.
Onsite Audit Checklist:
Here's a simple checklist of everything that will be checked by the Group Manager during the visit
Online Checklists:
INITIAL AUDIT
Use this if you aren't already certified
ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE AUDIT
Use this if you are already certified
The forms are automatically saved using something magic called cookies, so you can return to it up to 4 weeks later, as long as you use the same computer.