All workers in a kitchen are responsible for safety. Image from Pixabay.
In this week’s article on my blog, I mentioned that developing a Food Safety Culture is important. I wrote:
The main recommendations from FDA and other food safety agencies is to cultivate a food safety culture. This refers to the specific culture of a facility enhancing food safety by increasing the awareness and improving behaviour of employees within a facility and, most importantly, influences their practices when no one is watching.”
Cultivating a food safety culture is easy to say and very hard to do because it requires a culture shift in your business as well as in your employees. A food safety culture must be both a top down and bottom up approach. It cannot exist in a facility where there is no trust, After all, which employee is going to tell their manager that something is wrong, if they will get blamed or punished as a whistleblower?
*It takes a team to build a food safety culture. Book a call so we can chat about how I can be a part of your team.