FOOD SAFETY POLICY AND OBJECTIVES

What are Food Safety Policy and Objectives?

As part of your organization’s commitment to serving safe and suitable food, you must implement food safety policies and have objectives. By ensuring food safety, you are protecting your consumers from food borne illnesses. Additionally, it protects consumers from health-related conditions such as allergies and death.

Each business creates its own food safety policy. Ensure food safety throughout your supply chain by establishing everything you will do. It will include the legal obligations and processes, which they must meet, as well as the food safety policies that they want to adhere to ensure the utmost food safety in their company.

What is a food safety objective?

Creating food safety objectives will help your company track its progress towards meeting its food safety policy. SMART objectives are an effective framework to help create food safety objectives. If you are creating food safety objectives, it is important that they meet the 5 SMART objectives.

S – Specific. Describe specifically what you are trying to accomplish.

M – Measurable. If you have a solid metric, you’ll be able to measure whether you’ve achieved your goals or not.

A – Achievable. When setting goals for your company, make sure they are achievable.

R – Realistic. Achievable goals are realistic. You must set goals that are realistic for your company, not for your competitors.

T – Timely. Your goals need to be time-bound. Make sure you set your goals realistically and not too far in the future.

Why is a food safety policy important?

As part of your food safety policy, you should make sure to meet your legal responsibilities, as well as ensuring you can prove to your customers those high standards are being reached.

Some of the benefits of a food safety policy are:

1. Reduce your spoilage product costs
2. Educated employees
3. Improve company reputation