Food Safety Culture: an essential ingredient for healthy diets
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Where opportunity creates success Food Safety Culture: an essential ingredient for healthy diets Professor Carol Wallace 17 th November 2021
Transcript of Food Safety Culture: an essential ingredient for healthy diets
Where opportunity creates success
Food Safety Culture: an essential ingredient for healthy diets
Professor Carol Wallace
17th November 2021
Agenda
• What is food safety culture and why does it matter?
• What are the dimensions?
• How does it manifest/interact with systems in food businesses?
• What does good look like?
• How do we measure food safety culture?
• How do we improve food safety culture?
• Collaboration and networking for consumer health.
A new key to food safety management….2008 to 2021 (and beyond!)
Food Safety Programme
Essential Management Practices:Management CommitmentRoles and Responsibilities
Training and EducationResource Management
DocumentationSupplier/Customer Partnerships
Continuous Improvement
Prerequisite Programmes
HACCPSafe DesignFood Fraud Food Defence
Food Safety Culture
© Carol Wallace 2016
Food Safety Culture: Icebergs, onions and trees!
Metaphors for Food Safety Culture and impact on its assessment
…culture is not visible on the surface
Attitudes, Norms and Beliefs
• Learned and shared
• Affect mindset and behaviours
• Contribute to good and bad food safety behaviours
• Definitions:
• Griffith, 2010 – FSC = ‘The aggregation of the prevailing, relatively constant, learned, shared attitudes, values and beliefs contributing to the hygiene behaviours used within a particular food handling environment’
• GFSI TWG, 2018 – FSC = Food Safety Culture: Shared values, norms, and beliefs that affect mindset and behaviours towards food safety across/in/throughout an organisation.
• Sharman et al, 2020 - A long-term construct existing at the organisational level relating to the deeply rooted beliefs, behaviours and assumptions that are learned and shared by all employees, which impact the food safety performance of the organisation.
Food Safety Culture Dimensions
Values and
Mission
People Systems
AdaptabilityConsistency
Risk Awareness
Food Safety Culture Maturity
Food Safety Culture –Moving up the maturity scale
StrongPositive
WeakNegative
Maturing Food Safety Culture
Measurement is not enough…Apply improvement interventions, actions, tools
Identify position and level of maturity
Food Safety Culture Measurement ToolsCriteria being assessed (varies by tool)
Analysis and targeted
interventions
Pulse real-time feedback
technology
Food safety performance document
review
Interviews and focus
groups: for frontline and management
Periodic
Weekly ongoing • Strengthen food safety culture
in UK food manufacturing businesses
• Technology-based, low-effort, daily dialogue with frontline teams, weekly feedback and continuous leadership engagement
Food safety culture measurement and improvement
• Periodic (e.g., annual) culture survey and improvement plans
• Continuous measurement with food safety culture nudging
Food Safety Culture International Requirements
• Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene CXC 1-1969, 2020 http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/codes-of-practice/en/
• GFSI, 2020, Benchmarking requirements version 2020. https://mygfsi.com/news-and-resources/?type=publications&lang=english
– All GFSI audits require food safety culture improvement plans
– E.g., BRC, IFS, FSSC 22000
• FDA Blueprint – New Era of Smarter Food Safety (FDA, 2020)
• New update of EU852/2004 also includes Food Safety Culture – adopted 3rd March 2021
Collaboration and Networking – a menu for safer food
Working together and Sharing Best Practice
Academia-Governance-Industry
Thank You!
• Professor Carol A Wallace
• Professor of Food Safety Management Systems
• Nutritional Sciences and Applied Food Safety Studies Group
• University of Central Lancashire
• Preston
• PR1 2HE
Professor Carol A WallaceProfessor of Food Safety Management SystemsNutritional Sciences and Applied Food Safety Studies GroupUniversity of Central LancashirePrestonUK
Chair, IUFoST Working Group – Food Safety Scientific Communication
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