Building Your Food Safety Culture Training Course Outline

Module 1: Food Production

  • Emergence of Retail Food Establishments
  • Foodborne Disease
  • Retail Food Safety
    • Reducing Risk Early in the Food Production Chain
    • Changing Behaviour

Module 2: Why Focus on Culture?

  • What is Culture?
  • Why is Culture Important?
  • Who Creates Culture?
  • How is Culture Created?
  • Foundation
  • Core Elements

Module 3: A Systems-Based Approach to Food Safety

  • What is a System?
  • Systems Thinking
  • Behaviour Change Theories and Models
  • Environmental or Physical Factors
  • A Behaviour-Based Systems Continuous Improvement Model

Module 4: Creating Food Safety Performance Expectations

  • Getting Employees to Do What They Are Supposed to Do
  • Expect More than Efficiency
  • Expect a Proper Food Safety Attitude
  • Start with the Food Code
  • Develop Risk-Based Expectations
  • Beyond Regulatory Compliance

Module 5: Communicating Food Safety Effectively

  • Importance of Communication
  • Use a Variety of Mediums
  • Posters, Symbols, and Slogans
  • Use More than Words
  • Have Conversations

Module 6: Developing Food Safety Goals and Measurements

  • Importance of Food Safety Goal Setting
  • Establishing Effective Food Safety Goals
  • Why Measure Food Safety?
  • What Should You Measure?
  • Lagging Vs Leading Indicators of Food Safety

Module 7: Using Consequences to Increase or Decrease Behaviours

  • Determine the Cause of Performance Problems
  • Creating Consequences for Food Safety
  • Positive and Negative Consequences
  • Negative Consequences

Module 8: Behaviour-Based Food Safety Management

  • Management or Leadership?
  • Traditional Food Safety Management Vs Behaviour-Based
  • Food Safety Management

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