A lot has changed over the past few years on how the food processing industry operates. From COVID-19 to new FSMA updates, the industry has had to adapt faster than ever before. These industry wide changes can also directly affect a company’s food safety culture. It is therefore necessary that companies pay close attention to what can impact a positive food safety culture so that they can readily adapt to the changing industry.
One major impact that the global pandemic caused across many industries is the loss of a long-term workforce. Whether due to layoffs or new opportunities in remote spaces, many veteran workers either found new jobs or decided to retire early. These types of workforce upheavals have the potential to undo years of positive food safety culture cultivation.
The good news is that companies have found new ways to adapt to training employees quickly without compromising their strict hygiene standards. One of the ways in which co
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A common buzzword among food safety circles is “standardization”. Consistent pathogen removal from plant to plant is a crucial aspect of food safety. One of the bigger challenges recently has been standardizing hygiene SOPs across a multi-layer facility with two or more hygiene zones or even multiple facilities across the country. Making sure staff in different areas and working under different shift leaders are all following hygiene SOP’s is no small task. Standardizing the hygiene process across all a company’s plants, helps to make sure that everybody understands what consistent hygiene goals need to be.
Standardization is really about consistency. If a hygiene process is put into place, then that sets the foundation for your organization's positive food safety culture. It is therefore crucial to make sure that every process implemented is simple and easily understood by all employees. A simple, automated, and standardized hygiene process develops consistency from person to person and from facility to facility.
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Companies that are the most willing to adapt new technologies and solutions as a response to the ever changing world of food safety have shown that they can overcome the many challenges inherent in this dynamic industry. For them, developing a positive food safety culture is that much easier.
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