Food safety culture training course
A one-day course introducing the principles of food safety culture as defined by The Global Food Safety Initiative.
Food Safety Culture can be defined as the food safety attitudes, values and beliefs shared by a group of people. It is the product of employee attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that determine the commitment to and robustness of an organization’s food safety management. In effect, an organization’s food safety culture reflects “how we make safe food around here”.
This one-day course will help you understand the principles of food safety culture, The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) introduced the idea of a food safety culture in version 7 of its benchmarking requirements, catapulting this concept into the spotlight, since the GFSI is the motor behind a wide range of certification schemes, from IFS and BRC to FSSC 22000 and beyond.
Understanding how to approach food safety culture to ensure compliance and stay in sync with industry trends and customer expectations means understanding 3 basic questions:
- Why food safety culture?
- What exactly is food safety culture?
- How can organizations implement it effectively?
Objective:
This course was designed to allow you the opportunity to learn about the concepts and elements related to the Culture of Quality and Food Safety, based on the main standards and publications in Food Safety and Human Behaviour.
The course covers the following specific learning objectives:
- Understand the combination of valuable concepts that are able to effectively support the reduction of outbreaks of Food Borne Diseases and consequently improve food safety performance in the Organization,integrating human behaviour, the Culture of the Organization and the Food Safety Management System.
- Understand the meaning of culture, from the organizational point of view and its relationship with behaviour, at all levels of the organization.
- Understand the role of leadership in maturing the Food Safety Culture.
- Know how the use of recognition can influence and strengthen behaviour change initiatives.
- Improve knowledge about tools that can help accelerate Behaviour Change in the Organization associated with Food Safety programs.
Audience:
Anyone involved in driving food safety management in the company and planning, implementing, maintaining, or supervising an ISO 9001, ISO22000, FSSC, BRC, IFS etc.
All our public courses can also be delivered in-house at your premises either as standard or tailored depending on the needs and requirements of your business. Contact us if you are interested or want to know more on in-house courses.