Food safety is not just encompassed in a HACCP plan or regulatory statues.  Food safety in today’s food industry is a cultural adaption that is influenced by every action and decision made in the development, production, handling, and service in the food chain.  Recently, this has been demonstrated in an increased focus on making culture changes, which are illustrated in comprehensive management commitment sections in industry accepted standards.  But when reality hits, leaders are often forced to solve complex challenges facing a people-driven industry like,

• How often has a person tried to make the right food safety decision, only to make a riskier choice? 
• How often has a small lapse in concentration or incorrect decision lead to unsafe choices or even a food safety crisis? 
• How have food companies turned the dial to make a perceptive change in their corporate culture after a crisis? 
• Other than traditional training, what tangible things can be done to drive real change and continuous progress?

This session will hear from food safety experts who must answer those types of questions every day.  They have developed strategies to capture employees’ attention and engage them to be cognizant and legitimately concerned about making informed, smart food safety decisions in their businesses and everyday tasks.  Attendees will garner tips and share ideas on how we make these initiatives sustainable (innovative educational projects, incentives), not lose focus or get bored of the topic, establish baselines in a food safety culture's understanding/level of engagement of food safety, and discover ways to measure/show progress?

We will be asking our final speaker to use the interactive Alchemy remote system to conduct a short quiz for the audience, during his presentation.

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