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Food Safety Culture and Effective Food Control Systems. Abdul Rashid Malik CEO Pillsbury Consulting. Food Safety Culture. Question Why do people systematically violate safety & hygiene rules despite training and being advised of the safety consequences?. Food Safety Culture a definition ….
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Food Safety Culture and Effective Food Control Systems Abdul Rashid MalikCEO Pillsbury Consulting
Food Safety Culture QuestionWhy do people systematically violate safety & hygiene rules despite training and being advised of the safety consequences?
Food Safety Culturea definition … “Is the aggregation of the prevailing relatively constant, learned, shared attitudes, values and beliefs contributing to the hygiene behaviours used in a particular food handling environment”. “Provides staff with a common sense of food safety purpose “ FOOD SAFETY CULTURE – is a management responsibility
Food Safety culture is ... • It is a set of shared attitudes, values and beliefs around food safety • Production/sources • Handling/storage • Preparation • You can have a good food safety culture or a bad one
Food safety culture is also … Maintaining a food safety at all times • Operators and staff know the risks associated with the products or meals they produce • Know why managing the risks is important • Can effectively manage those risks • Demonstrable
Who creates the culture • Organisational cultures are created by leaders and one of the most decisive functions of leadership may well be the creation, management and – if necessary, the destruction of a culture
Conclusions • Good safety culture underpins safety management, training, technology and procedures. • Helps ensure people will apply training and procedures. • Prompt employees to improve safety performance, report and solve problems • Our method assesses safety culture and develops organisation specific improvements
Effective Food Safety Legislation • Must achieve its primary objective to ensure the sale of safe, uncontaminated food of good quality. It protects public health and reduces the risk of food-born illness Is it needed, will it contribute to food safety?
International Organizations Involved in Food Safety and Quality • protect public health • prevent fraud and deception • avoid food adulteration • facilitate trade
FAO/WHO Guidelines 2003: Assuring Food Safety and Quality: Guidelines for Strengthening National Food Control Systems 2006: “Strengthening national food control systems: Guidelines to assess capacity building needs 2007: Strengthening national food control systems: A quick guide to assess capacity building needs
Elements of a National Food Control System • Food Control Management • Food Legislation • Food Inspection • Official Food Control Laboratories • Food Safety and Quality Information, Education and Communication (IEC)
Food Control Management Single agency system Multiple agency system Integrated system
Effective Food Safety Legislation • Capable of being complied with and enforced • Recognition of owners and management responsibility
Effective Food Safety Legislation • Supported by comprehensive Codes of Practice/Industry Guides providing advice on compliance and best practice • Requirement for training resulting in competency
Effective Food Safety Legislation • Updated in light of new evidence and epidemiology
Effective Food Safety Enforcement • Competent mangers and effective systems • Competent inspectors with auditing/HACCP experience in relation to the types of business they are inspecting
Effective Food Safety Enforcement • Consistency of output – cost-effective compliance • Sufficient resources • Government targets based on quality not quantity • Frequency based on risk/food safety culture/confidence in management
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Questions and feedback ! Abdul Rashid Malik, Msc. Bsc. MCIEH CEO - Pillsbury Consultingemail: Abdul.Rashid@Pillsburyconsulting.comwebsite: www.pillsburyconsulting.com www.facebook/pillsburyconsulting mobile: +971- 5678 1686