Governing safely, collaboratively and with integrity
Safe to Trade is underpinned by a robust governance structure. Bringing together a formidable team of the brightest minds from across the industry. Including renowned experts, professionals qualified to the highest level, industry leaders and consumers.
Governing safely, collaboratively and with integrity
Safe to Trade is underpinned by a robust governance structure. Bringing together a formidable team of the brightest minds from across the industry. Including renowned experts, professionals qualified to the highest level, industry leaders and consumers.
Technical Standards Committee (TSC)
The TSC is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the Safe to Trade standard, ensuring that it is always consistent and up to date with the latest legislation. Committee members have high expertise and experience in hospitality food safety management, food safety enforcement, hygiene regulations, health and safety and the development of standards.
Applications for the Technical Standards Committee are currently open. To apply visit our opportunities page.
We're looking for new members of the TSC
Stakeholder Engagement Forum (SEF)
The SEF’s responsibility is key to keeping all stakeholders connected, and to promote awareness and understanding of Safe to Trade across all stakeholder communities, maintaining strong links with food industry regulators, inspection bodies, consumers and other groups.
Previous Stakeholder Engagement Forum attendees
Certification Body Impartiality Committee (CBIC)
CBIC’s purpose is to ensure fairness and neutrality in the certification process, avoiding any bias. The committee operates on behalf of the Shield Safety Certification Body. Threats to impartiality are sources of potential conflicts of interest, bias and prejudice that could impact the objectivity of Safe to Trade certification.
We're looking for new members of our governance committees
Primary Authority
Milton Keynes City Council serve as the primary authority. This role includes the provision of authority-assured advice and guidance. Importantly other local authorities are required to respect the advice provided by Milton Keynes
Integrity Programme
The purpose of the integrity programme is to provide stakeholder confidence in the integrity of audits conducted by Certification Bodies. Within the integrity programme, Safe to Trade, on an ongoing basis, conducts audits on Safe to Trade certified locations and can carry out head-office audits of Certification Bodies to assess compliance with the Protocol
