Food safety culture: creating a behavior-based food safety management system

Food safety awareness is at an all time high, new and emerging threats to thefood supply are being recognized, and consumers are eating more and more meals prepared outside of the home. Accordingly, retail and foodservice establishments, as well as food producers at all levels of the food production chain, have a growing responsibility to ensure that proper food safety and sanitation practices are followed, thereby, safeguarding the health of their guests and customers. Achieving food safety success in this changing environment requires going beyond traditional training, testing, and inspectional approaches to managing risks. It requires a better understanding of organizational culture and the human dimensions of food safety. To improve the food safety performance of a retail or foodservice establishment, an organization with thousands of employees, or a local community, you must change the way people do things. You mustchange their behavior. In fact, simply put, food safety equals behavior Firstsignificant contribution on how to create a behavior-based food safety management system INDICE: Introduction.- Looking Back to Shape the Future.- Why the Focus onCulture?- A Systems Based Approach to Food Safety.- Creating Food Safety Performance Expectations.- Educating and Training to Influence Behaviour.- Communicating Food Safety Effectively.- Developing Food Safety Goals and Measurement Systems.- Using Consequences to Increase or Decrease Behaviours.- Tying it allTogether – Food Safety Performance Management.- Unwrapping – Thoughts on the Future of Food Safety.- Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-72866-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 70
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés