FOOD SAFETY TRAINING

What is food safety training?

It refers to the training that all your employees and contractors receive who have a direct or indirect interaction with any of your food products. The induction to the site should include food safety training, especially if food products or the supply chain are involved.

Food safety training could include topics such as:

• Cross contamination
• Temperature monitoring
• Personal hygiene
• Cleaning and sanitising
• Pest control
• Maintenance and equipment
• Approved suppliers
• Good Manufacturing Programme (GMP)

Importance of Food Safety Training

It is important to provide food safety training to employees and contractors, so they are aware of the potential and real hazards of food safety.

Education will help you prevent food safety incidents or accidents that could result in a recall or a waste of your food products. In addition to preventing these incidents from occurring, it allows businesses to save time and have a workforce that knows how to act and implement effective food safety practices.

Benefits of food safety training

1. Reduce your spoilage product costs

By reducing the amount of spoilage product, your employees/contractor will save you money. Because your employees know how to avoid hazards like cross contamination, your food products will be less likely to be contaminated.

2. Save company resources

The most valuable resource you can preserve is time. Having fewer incidents to handle will give your employees more time to complete their daily tasks with food products.

3. Educated employees

As an employee, you can add more value to your company by training your staff in food safety. As a result, they are more loyal to your company and more productive since they have a more positive view of their work.

4. Improve company reputation

The key is ensuring all your employees are trained in the correct and safe food safety processes and implementing a training plan to ensure this occurs. Additionally, you convey to your customers that you are very concerned about food safety and the health of your customers. This will create a stellar reputation for your brand because you care about your customers.