NJMEP

Food Safety - SQF Practitioner
2022-08-23 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJ
8/23, 8/24/2022

Excel Intermediate - Virtual Training
2022-08-25 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | NJ
Participants will review the basic operations and then move to more advanced topics. Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
Apply built in and custom formats
• Change cell size and alignment
• Use the format painter and conditional formatting
• Hide and unhide rows and columns
• Use styles and views
• Change Excel options
• Create and name ranges of cell
• Use various commonly used Excel functions
• Use the Fill command and the AutoFill handle
• Sort a list of data
• Verify the correctness of worksheet formulas by displaying them
• Send worksheets through the internet
• Use drawing tools
Participants will be able to work with multiple spreadsheets simultaneously, manage, and manipulate large amounts of data, apply more complex formats, and add charts and graphs to their workbooks.

Cyber Security Awareness - Protect Your Business
2022-08-25 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Online
Cyber Security Awareness – Protect Your Business
Cyber Security is a daunting task. More and more money and time is being spent every year on protecting American business but every day we hear about another major company getting hacked, a new vulnerability that we need to guard against, a new solution that will solve all our problems, etc..
So, what can you do to cut through all the noise?
This NJMEP webinar will not have all the answers or address all your concerns but the 1 hour session will provide you with real take aways that you may implement in your business that will include:
• Important cyber risk lessons that we have learned that you can apply to your business
• Non-negotiable, best practices that you need to apply in your business!
• How to address the key threats of remote workers

Food Safety - Food Recall and Withdrawals
2022-08-30 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States

PPE Hazard Communication Training
2022-08-31 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Bubble NYC LLC, 1250 Valley Brook Ave, Lyndhurst, NJ, 07071, United States
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Food Safety - cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) Requirements and Readi
2022-08-31 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States

Quality Control
2022-08-31 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States
8/31/2022, 9/1/2022
Market competitiveness and customer satisfaction have become critical success factors. Organizations are realizing that their products and services must continually meet or exceed customers’ expectations. Final inspection has long been the preferred method to ensure suitable products and services reach the customer. However, final inspection is the most expensive and wasteful process to insure acceptable product.
Quality and quality control is essential to supplying products and services consistently. They are solid concepts that build successful and efficient businesses, minimizing waste and operating at high levels of productivity.
This course introduces quality control initiatives that are effective, practical, current practices and state of the art. We convey the fundamentals of quality and quality control systems, how to practically plan and manage a successful quality program and describe, choose and employ the most practical tools to identify quality breaches and correct them to continuously improve and sustain operational quality.
It demonstrates the expert techniques and tools for planning quality, establishing methods, collecting data and analyzing.
Quality Course Outline
• Quality and Quality Control Fundamentals
• Setting Practical Quality Standards
• How Quality Control and Quality Assurance Collaborate
• The Role of Inspection in Quality Control
• Assessing the Current State of Quality
• Identifying Current and Critical Customer Requirements and Issues
• Preparing to Measure Current Quality Status
• Collecting Quality Data
• When to Evaluate with Statistics
• Popular Organizational Quality Initiatives
• Effective Quality Tools & Methodologies Part I
• Effective Quality Tools & Methodologies Part II
• Managing the Quality Program
• Motivating & Empowering the Quality Work Force
Every quality oriented operative, supervisor and manager will benefit with the information in this course. It enables them to return to operations with the tools, knowledge and techniques to begin making a difference in the quality practices of the organization.

Succession Planning and Building the Value of Your Business
2022-09-02 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online

FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food (formerly PCQI)
2022-09-06 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States
9/6, 9/7, 9/8/2022

Food Safety - Food Defense
2022-09-08 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States
Food Defense is the effort to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration. The FDA issued the final rule in May 2016 on mitigation strategies to protect food against “Intentional Adulteration”, which requires applicable facilities to formulate and implement food defense plans. The purpose of the food defense plan is to prevent food products being adulterated from any source inside or outside the company. Such acts intended to cause wide-spread harm to public health, including but not limited to acts of terrorism intending to target food supply, could cause illness, death and economic turmoil to the food supply. Implementing an effective food defense plan will allow for the prevention, protection against, mitigation, response time and recovery from any intentional adulteration of our food supply. Furthermore, food defense is already a requirement for all GFSI accredited Food Safety Management Systems (SQF, BRC etc.).

Improved Communication in American English for the Workplace
2022-09-08 08:30 - 2022-09-29 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29/2022
Improved Communication in American English for the Workplace is an intermediate level interactive course focused on improving speaking and listening, with limited reading and writing as required for workplace needs.
Building upon the existing knowledge of English of the students, the result of this course is to improve the participants’ ability to understand and be understood when communicating in English. Participants will learn strategies to improve pronunciation and grammatical structures to communicate about work, family, and community. They will participate in conversations asking and answering work related questions, practice reading out loud, problem solving and reading directions and maps.
Companies benefit from the improvement in the quality and accuracy of interpersonal communication as employees become more comfortable and clearer when speaking English at work.

Virtual - IMDG DANGEROUS GOODS TRANSPORTATION TRAINING
2022-09-09 | NJ
IMDG DANGEROUS GOODS TRANSPORTATION TRAINING
INTERNATIONAL MARITIME DANGEROUS GOODS CODE
Shipping Dangerous Goods by Sea
This course is designed to familiarize you with the most recent edition of the IMDG Code which is a two-volume book that covers various provisions for the safe maritime transport of dangerous goods. It will acquaint you both with the rules put forth by the IMDG Code and with the layout of the book itself.
Shipping dangerous goods requires many precautions, even before setting sail. Exposure to hazardous materials (HAZMAT) can harm ecosystems, damage property, and cause long-term health problems, immediate injury, and death. That’s why it is so important for the maritime industry to properly pack, label, store, load, and track dangerous goods. Hazmat training helps the freight industry protect people and the environment.
This course certification meets the requirements set forth under the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code). The training program meets all IMDG training requirements for shipping by sea.
This course is for:
Dockworkers, longshoremen, freight forwarders, container packers, port employees, and other land-based ocean shipping professionals involved in transporting hazardous materials must understand relevant portions of the IMDG Code.

Time Management & Delegation
2022-09-13 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
This course includes pre-work of completing a weekly activity log.
Purpose:
Time management skills are essential for achieving results. This course provides the
tools to set priorities and be more effective and productive.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
• Analyze time for ways to become more effective
• Identify common time wasters and develop strategies to overcome them
• Categorize tasks that can be delegated and an approach to successful delegation
Topics Covered Include:
• Benefits of Effective Time Management
• Common Time Wasters
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Eisenhower Urgent-Important Matrix
• Meeting Effectiveness
• Saying “No”
• The What and the How of Delegation

Fundamentals of Continuous Improvement
2022-09-13 12:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Online
9/13/22, 9/14/22

Principles of Lean Manufacturing with Live Simulation
2022-09-14 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJ

Supervisory Skills for New Managers - English
2022-09-14 12:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Moving into a position of authority means meeting new challenges, taking on new responsibilities, and mastering new skills. It may also mean learning to manage across cultural and language differences. New Managers can often be overwhelmed by new responsibilities and anxious about the transition from “coworker” to “boss.”
Workers who have recently become supervisors often worry about the way others will react to their new supervisor status … have concerns about keeping up with a tougher workload … and wonder how to handle the new tasks they will be faced with: hiring, disciplinary action, managing change, even firing.
A program to ease the transition …
This supervisory training course was specifically designed to address the needs of anyone who is new to managing others, with a special focus on those managing in a multicultural workplace. The content of this course will provide a powerful new set of skills, strategies, and techniques for dealing with the issues you will encounter as you take on your new position and move forward in your career.
You will find out how to relate well to former peers who are now your subordinates, and you’ll learn the communication skills that will help you handle these changing relationships in a way that’s comfortable for everyone. You’ll discover secrets for motivating and encouraging people to do their “personal best” for you, and find out how to discipline firmly and fairly, without creating resentment. This supervisory training will show you how to positively influence the behavior of your workers.
In this workshop you’ll learn:
How to communicate more effectively as a new supervisor
When to be flexible, and when to stand firm
How to build trust and gain respect
Strategies for motivating others to achieve results
The truth about discipline — how to handle uncomfortable situations
What every new supervisor and manager should know about hiring and firing
Time management skills that really work
And much, much more!

Computer Aided Manufacturing using Fusion 360
2022-09-15 08:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Trinity, LLC, 60 Leonard Street, Metuchen, NJ, 08840, United States

Basic Material Handling and Ergonomics
2022-09-15 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online

FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food (formerly PCQI)
2022-09-20 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States
9/20, 9/21, 9/22/2022

Team Effectiveness and Team Building
2022-09-20 12:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Online
This half day virtual workshop provides participants training in team building and team effectiveness. Team Building & Effectiveness is most often a precursor to a focused team based effort to address specific business areas, or an integral part of a more comprehensive business improvement strategy. During the class, basic team concepts are covered including, but not limited to stages of team development, roles and responsibilities, ground rules for acceptable team behavior and team decision making processes.
Teams have become a principal building block of the strategy of successful organizations. Whether the focus is on service, quality, cost, value, speed, efficiency, performance, or other similar goals, teams are the central methodology of most organizations in the private, non-profit, and government sectors.
In most teams, the energies of individual members work at cross purposes. Individuals may work extraordinarily hard, but their efforts do not translate into team effort, and this results in wasted energy. By contrast, when a team becomes more aligned, a commonality of direction emerges, and individual energies harmonize. You have a shared vision and an understanding of how to complement each others’ efforts.

ISO 9001-2015 - Internal Auditor Training - Virtual
2022-09-20 12:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Online
ISO requires you to conduct internal audits of your own system. Your registrar expects that your internal auditors will become qualified to conduct internal audits. The facilitator will help the Internal Audit Process Leader schedule the audits according to status and importance of your processes and confirm the independence of the auditors involved. The ISO 9001-2015 Internal Auditor Training Class is designed to train your personnel to become qualified and confident to conduct internal audits in a positive, constructive approach consistent with the objectives of your management system and adds value to your business . This class teaches the fundamentals of conducting an end to end process audit and includes a number of workshops/case studies that facilitate the learning process.
Link for meeting will be emailed to all registered guests the day prior to the event.

Using Mergers and Acquisitions to Protect and Grow Your Business Value
2022-09-22 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Online
25% of business owner’s will be involved in an
M&A transaction in the next 24 months.
You may be actively contemplating one now, or it could be an unexpected “knock at your door”. You need to be ready!
As an owner you are faced with more and faster changes today than ever before. Challenged as you attempt to deal with increased complexities and choices in the environment in which you compete.
In times of disruptive change, with opportunities such as consolidation, increased competition, new technologies or decreased loyalty, standing still is not an option. And, the standard principles of managing the challenges of running a business no longer apply. Most owners are not aware of the tools that are available to deal with these complexities.
We will examine the ways owners can protect, create and drive value in their business .
This presentation will arm you with key information to guide you on how to become a winner in this time of disruptive change.
Participants will learn strategies to:
• manage risk and hedge against the unknown
• identify the “hidden” value within your company
• leverage mergers and acquisitions as a positive change agent to stay ahead of the competition
• Learn about the various options for exiting your business
You will leave feeling better equipped to not only protect your company but to maximize its value in the current environment.

DoD Cybersecurity - Are You Meeting Current CMMC Requirements?
2022-09-22 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online
DoD Cybersecurity – Are You Meeting Current CMMC Requirements?
Join NJMEP for a brief webinar to discuss the current CMMC changes.
Learn how these changes impact you and what you need to get DoD contracts, including:
• The notable changes to CMMC 2.0 and why they matter.
• Your current DFARS Requirements
• How DIB contractors can prepare for these upcoming changes.
• Future planning to get, and remain, in compliance.
Every manufacturer in the Defense Industrial Base must be compliant with CMMC Version 2.0 Update within the next few months. The time is now to prepare for stricter data protection regulations that will be required in your contracts. This cyber security program not only is required for DoD business you will have an enhanced environment to gain the trust of customers and increase your revenue.
The CMMC 2.0 is the most recent version of the DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). Built on a foundation of NIST SP 800-171, the CMMC 2.0 establishes three certification levels that reflect the maturity and reliability of a company’s cybersecurity infrastructure to safeguard sensitive government information on the contractors’ systems. Under CMMC, a contractor must be certified to be eligible to bid on, win or participate on a contract.
Without a valid CMMC certification the prime and/or sub will be barred from the contract (May 2023 is the target date for contract inclusion). Unlike previous requirements to be NIST SP 800-171 compliant, under CMMC the contractor can NOT self-certify.

Conflict Resolution : Dealing With Conflict Overview
2022-09-27 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online

OSHA 10-Hour Card Training
2022-09-28 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States
9/28/22, 9/29/22

Food Safety - Internal Auditing for Food Safety Management Systems
2022-09-28 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States
9/28, 9/29/2022
This Internal Auditor Training Class is designed to train your personnel to become qualified and confident to conduct internal audits in a positive, constructive approach to ensure the effective implementation of a Food Safety Management System. Besides the fundamentals and phases of the audit process this class focuses in addition on the particular requirements of food safety management systems and how to evaluate effectiveness. Practical exercises and case studies will facilitate the learning process. Further, the participants will have the opportunity to work on their individual internal audit plan during the training class. The participant will receive a certificate for successfully completion of the training after passing the written knowledge test at the end of the training class.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
* Explain the objectives of root cause analysis as a procedure to find and evaluate the causes of problems within the food industry
* Use problem cause data collection tools applicable to food manufacturing
* Apply appropriate root cause analysis tools to food manufacturing
* Develop efficient corrective action and preventative action plans for food manufacturing
* Understand and be able to apply how CA, CAPA, and RCA are all managed under FSMS.
The participant will receive a certificate of successful completion for the course after passing a written knowledge test following the training course.
The course is designed for:
Operations Staff in food and beverage manufacturing, packaging, holding, handling, and distributors. This can include the following but is not limited to: Logistics, Process Engineers, Quality Engineers, Plant Managers, Supervisors, Food Safety Manager, Quality Assurance Manager.

Excel Intermediate With A Focus On Finance
2022-09-29 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Students will learn how to utilize Excel for a wide variety of financial purposes, such as naming conventions and methodologies, outlines, worksheet and cell protection, concatenation, array formulas, array functions, consolidation, filters, pivot tables, goal seek, data validation, conditional formatting, recording macros, editing macros, auditing tools, hyperlinks, LOOKUP functions, IF functions, DATE functions. All of these functions will be beneficial to those working with financial data.

Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Training
2022-09-29 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
9-29, 9-30, 10-6, 10-7, 10-20, 10-21, 10-27, 10-28, 11-3, 11-4, 11-10, 11-11-2022

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
2022-10-05 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NJMEP North 2 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 305, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, 2 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ, 07927, United States
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Training
Overview
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt is the first step of Lean Six Sigma training.
In this 8-hour introductory classroom course you will follow the DMAIC methodology (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) while learning the various Lean and Six Sigma tools necessary to perform at a Yellow Belt level on a project team. This course is suited to those just entering the Lean Six Sigma arena as well as those preparing for Yellow Belt certification.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, students will be able to:
• Explain the key phases of the DMAIC methodology (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control)
• Distinguish between Lean and Six Sigma
• Describe the use of key tools such as Project Charter, SIPOC, 5S, TIMWOOD, Standard Work, 5WHYs, Fishbone Diagram and more
• Apply knowledge to solve simple “IMPLEMENT” level projects
Yellow Belt curriculum focuses on:
• Introduction to Lean Six Sigma
• 3i Model
• Problem Statement and Project Charter
• Process Mapping
• Baseline Performance
• Root Cause Investigation
• Improving processes
• Tollgate review, KPIs and Best Practices
• Control Plans, Sustaining the gains and the CI program

An Effective Approach to Managing and Controlling Your Information, IT, and Cybe
2022-10-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Webinar for NJMEP clients to have a high-level discussion on how the model of ISO 27001 enables organizations to manage the security of assets such
as financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted by third parties. This webinar will introduce you to the concepts of Information Security using ISO 27001. At the end course you will understand the following:
• Information, IT, and Cybersecurity: Events Past, Present, and Future
• Control types, properties, and concepts
• What information is relevant to the information security of your business
• How to help your company help themselves
o The history and purpose of the ISO 27001 Standard
o Certification vs. Compliance
• The general structure and scope of ISO 27001
• ISO Annex SL Management System Clause Structure
• Information Security Management System vs. Information Security IT Frameworks
• ISO 27002:2013 Information Security IT Controls framework
• Upcoming ISO 27002:2022 Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection – Information Security Controls framework
• The importance of applying effective Risk Assessment, Risk Management, and Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) methodologies
