Food Safety Culture Awareness Training

Food Safety Culture Training – an online course is designed to provide you with knowledge and awareness of food safety culture, and hence, helps to improve overall safety in the Food Organization.

DESCRIPTION

This online Food Safety Culture – Awareness Training course will help users to gain knowledge and understanding of all dimensions and attributes of food safety culture.  Food safety and quality culture is basically shared values, beliefs, and norms that affect mindset and behavior toward food safety in, across, and throughout an organization. In today’s scenario, food safety culture has gained significance and various international food safety standards and legislation, including BRC Global Standard Issue 8, FSSC 22000 V5.1, HACCP and Codex Alimentarius, have stressed the need to develop food safety and quality culture in all types and sizes of organizations in the food safety chain. The USFDA has also introduced food safety culture requirements.  The knowledge shared in this course can be very useful for those who want to understand the basic elements of food safety and quality culture and how it can be developed and measured. This online Food Safety Culture training course also takes into consideration the convenience of attendees and aims to increase their knowledge and understanding of all aspects of food safety culture. In a short time, this course will satisfy the training needs of individuals seeking a basic knowledge of food safety and quality culture, including the method for its assessment.

CONTENT COVERED IN THE FOOD SAFETY CULTURE TRAINING COURSE

This Food Safety Online Course contains video tutorials recorded by experienced food safety management system implementers and trainers. For better understanding, handouts in .pdf formats are also provided as an easy download. The contents include online session exams and a final exam to check the effectiveness of the training course.

1. Videos
   The video tutorials on the following topics are given in this course:
   • Session – 1: Introduction to Food Safety Culture
   • Session – 2: Steps for Food Safety Culture Development
   • Session – 3: Food Safety Culture Assessment
2. Handouts
   The handouts in PDF format for all of the above three sessions are provided to the participants of this online Food Safety Training Course. The participants can download and save the handouts on their computer for better understanding and for future reference also. They can read the handouts offline, anytime and anywhere.
3. Online Exams
   The participants of this online course will be required to clear all three session exams and one final exam, which are given as a part of the course. After successfully passing the final exam, his/her auto-generated Certificate will be issued and can be downloaded and printed from the dashboard.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this online course are to increase your knowledge and understanding of:

• Food safety and quality culture
• Dimension, attributes, and indicators of positive food safety and quality culture
• The importance of food safety and quality culture
• How does food safety culture work?
• Benefits of food safety culture
• Standards/ regulations where food safety culture has been addressed
• Steps for development of food safety and quality culture
• Methods and tools for assessment of food safety and quality culture.

WHO CAN ENROL IN THIS COURSE?

This course is for all people who require or want to gain knowledge about food safety, food safety mainly in Food Organization. This course will also help all those who want to know about food safety identification and control measures and food safety management.

 In particular, this course is useful for:

• All employees working in any food Organization
• Food safety team members
• Food safety inspectors and auditors
• Food safety culture improvements
• Management representatives.

PREREQUISITES

There is no prerequisite for joining this course; however, the following will be helpful for better understanding and utilization of this course:

• General awareness of food safety system and food safety processes in the food processing units and food manufacturing organizations.
• Knowledge of basic terms related to food safety improvement.
• Ability to understand instructions and food safety measures.

STUDY MATERIALS

This e-Learning course is provided with study materials and you can read it after your log in or download (PDF format). Use the study materials to reinforce key points and to keep a reminder of what you already learned as well as you can save it in your computer for future reference. The access of this study material is removed after exam is cleared and on line certificate is prepared for the student.

EXAMINATION AND COURSE CERTIFICATE

This training program includes the Course Certificate that is issued upon course completion and passing the session exam as well as final exam given in the course with minimum 60% marks. The option to reappear in the exam is also given to student to get this course certificate

END OF COURSE INSTRUCTION

After completing the session and passing each session examination the student can appear for final exam. Once the final exam is cleared then it is considered a end of course. The training certificate is ready on our LMS and student can print it or save the training certificate. It is also available for verification by entering the name and certificate number.