How to implement a Food Safety Culture

Implementing a Food Safety Culture for your food business will ensure that your management team takes the lead in living your company values whilst working together towards a shared vision for your company that includes food safety.

With an effective communication plan the value system will cascade to all employees and drive better food safety habits and behaviours to increase the integrity of your food safety system and prevent food safety incidents.

Our workshop will take your team through the process of developing a Safety Culture Strategy for your food business:

• We start with a Food Safety Culture survey with the management team
• Identify the core values for your company by asking some tough questions
• Compile a mission and vision statement that realigns the focus for your company
• Learn about the dimensions of Food Safety Culture based on the GFSI guidelines
• Identify any food safety culture barriers
• Identify the tell-tale symptoms of a weak food safety culture
• Develop your Food Safety Culture Strategy
• Receive a food safety culture survey questionnaire for your employees

• Assess your organisation’s Food Safety Culture using a simple assessment tool
• Develop a food safety culture strategy for your company
• Receive a food safety culture survey questionnaire for your employees
• Help your management team develop core values that will form the basis for any decision making
• Develop a vision and mission statement that will realign your company’s focus
• Develop a food safety culture strategy for your company

Your entire management team

• Introduction to Food Safety Culture
• What do the experts say?
• What are the GFSI, BRCGS and FSSC 22000 requirements?
• The broader perspective of norms, beliefs and values that impact the workplace
• How norms are and behaviours are formed
• GFSI – People Element Maturity Model
• Mindset and behaviour
• Cultural Change as described by GFSI
• Food Safety Culture Survey
• Building a vision and mission statement
• Develop company core values
• Barriers to Food Safety Culture
• Dimensions of Food Safety Culture
• Leadership and communication
• Food Safety Hazard and risk awareness
• Food Safety Culture Strategic Plan
• and much more……

Develop a food safety culture strategy and complete a short knowledge test