Food Safety Culture SA

Food Safety Culture SA is rated 3 out of 5 in the category food & beverages. Read and write reviews about Food Safety Culture SA. The South African Listeriosis outbreak rocked our food safety world. All role players in the food industry have had to sit up and take stock of where we are. This issue should be a watershed moment in food safety for South Africa. We should all be using this tragedy to review all our systems and identify potential weaknesses. But this is not just about more regulations and more audits. There are many companies including Enterprise that have the right systems. Your company may even have certification in place. And yet you find yourself consistently battling with the same issues in your facility, from one audit to the next, from one day to the next. There is a flurry of activity prior to an audit and then we settle back into our day to day state of food safety inertia. Despite spending millions on food safety training, staff and management just do not engage wholeheartedly. We believe that food safety culture issues could be blocking companies’ food safety objectives - that organisational culture could be a hindrance to food safety initiatives and effectiveness. Food safety culture lies beyond food science in the realm of human sciences - but we believe it is an essential ingredient for food safety success, not just a “nice to have” - as does Frank Yiannas, our friend and mentor, who states that food safety culture is a pre-requisite programme – it should be in place before we even venture into formal food safety management systems. Join us on this journey as we seek to equip the food industry to identify and define stronger and more sustainable food safety cultures within their organisations.