FOOD SAFETY IMPORTANCE
Food Safety is Everyone's Business
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ew Zealand has a global reputation for a high standard of quality and safety in food, and those in Aotearoa’s food sector work hard every day to protect this. With an increased focus on having a strong food safety culture, food safety becomes everyone’s business. If correct food safety principles are not applied at any point in the food supply chain or during food preparation, the consequences can be catastrophic, compromising the safety of customers and causing potentially irreparable damage to a brand’s reputation. With recent COVID-19 developments, a strong food safety culture is now even more critical for the hospitality sector. Most businesses are fully aware of these risks and have good procedures in place to ensure staff are well trained in food safety and the effective application of food safety principles to safeguard their customers and their business. Having staff that understand
food safety hazards and are committed to a food safety culture is key. When a business embraces a food safety culture, it can be the difference between a few people following checklists because ‘they have to’ and the entire staff being onboard, responsible, and contributing to the food safety system every day. When this happens, maintaining food safety for customers and being ‘audit-ready’ every day, becomes easy. AsureQuality’s nationwide team of food safety specialists understand the challenges that food businesses face and are committed to helping them achieve a strong food safety culture. The AsureQuality Academy has been operating as an internationally recognised Private Training Establishment (PTE) for over 27 years and holds a Category 1 status with NZQA. They offer a wide range of food safety training courses suitable for staff at all levels across the entire food sector; from cafes and Quick Service Restaurants to New
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Zealand’s largest manufacturing plants and everything in between. The Academy’s latest course offering, ‘Building a Food Safety Culture’, is proving to hit the spot for many businesses who are embracing the movement towards a strong food safety culture. Participants in this course leave with a clear roadmap to help benchmark the status of their food safety culture and the specific steps needed to monitor and measure that culture. This includes how to obtain relevant metrics, how to implement specific food safety goals as well as other key performance indicators within their workplace for improving food safety culture. This course was created by AsureQuality’s food safety experts to support customers in meeting requirements of the Food Act 2014 and ultimately to keep their customers safe. Contact the team for more information on training courses via training@asurequality. com or go to www.asurequality.com. n
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