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Posted by Jim True on August 19, 2009 11:50 PM. Last Updated August 19, 2009 11:50 PM

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CH 15: Employee Safety & Training

Identifying Food Safety Training Needs

• A food safety training Need:
• Gap between what staff needs to know to perform their jobs and what they actually know
• Can be identified by:
• Observing performance on the job
• Testing food safety knowledge
• Identifying areas of weakness

Training Staff

• Managers should:
• Provide initial and ongoing training for employees
• Provide general food safety knowledge to all staff
• Provide staff with job-specific food safety knowledge
• Retrain employees periodically on food safety practices
• Keep records or all food safety training conducted at the operation

Critical Knowledge for Employees

• Employees should receive training in:
• Personal hygiene:
• Behaviors that can contaminate food
• Hand issues (handwashing, single-use gloves, hand care)
• Personal cleanliness
• Correct work attire
• Health issues that must be reported
• Policies for eating, drinking, smoking, and chewing gum or tobacco
• Storage of dirty and contaminated clothing
• Safe Food preparation
• Preventing time-temperature abuse
• Identifying type of contaminants
• Identifying how contamination occurs
• Preventing contamination and cross-contamination
• Handling food safely during the flow of food
• Cleaning and Sanitizing
• Cleaning and sanitizing food-contact surfaces
• Identifying when cleaning and sanitizing is needed
• Safe Chemical Handling
• Handling chemicals in the operation

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