Special Session: Diversey - Building a Food Safety Culture Utilising Connected Compliance Tools

Food safety is not only about microbiology, chemistry, or equipment.   It is first and foremost about people – people doing the right thing, executing the correct process.  Throughout the food chain, employees and managers need to follow correct processes and practices to ensure that food moves from farms, to plants, to stores, to restaurants, and finally to consumer’s tables as safely as it can possibly be.  Yet even today, we are still seeing process failures and gaps in food safety culture leading to foodborne illness and outbreaks.

A strong sanitation programme, with practices that are performed properly and consistently, is a prerequisite for any HACCP plan, and sanitation practices are critical to ensure the safety of our food supply.  This session will feature panelists who will discuss the key elements of building culture and the use of new digital tools used to enhance active managerial controls, so that they can measure compliance to food safety and sanitation processes and allow management to reinforce the culture necessary to keep our food supply as safe as possible.

Moderator:  Chris Jordan, CP-FS (Diversey)

Panelists: Chuck Seaman (HyVee Supermarkets), Allison Jennings (Amazon), Don Schaffner (Rutgers University)