Monday, March 25, 2013

Food Safety Update: Employee Training



The Food Safety Update section of Food Manufacturing is designed to offer our readers insight into the state of food safety concerns across the industry. We received hundreds of responses to this month’s survey on employee training.
 
Proper employee training is vital in maintaining adequate food safety standards throughout a food manufacturing facility. A plant is only as safe as its least-safe employee, and the quality of final products produced in a plant depend on the diligence of the workers employed there.

When we surveyed readers this month to find out about the effectiveness of their employee training plans, we found that many readers struggle to keep their employees up to speed and engaged. As seen in the chart below, food manufacturers report a wide variety of obstacles to proper plant floor training. Of the readers who selected “other,” over half noted a failure of training programs, materials or software to adequately address the training needs of their plant.

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