Donna Garren, Executive VP of Science & Policy, AFFI

Laura Nelson, VP of Food Safety & Global Alliance, Alchemy

Is Communicating Food Safety Best Practices

Haunting You?

• Donna Garren• Executive VP of Science & Policy

• Laura Nelson• VP of Food Safety & Global Alliances

Today’s Speakers

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FSWG meets to develop

best practices

2017 • FSWG unveils first food safety resource, ‘How to Validate Your Blancher’

• FSWG finalizes best practices

2018 •Launch AFFI Food Safety website, including over 120 Lm control recommendations

•Workshops & Webinars

2019

INDUSTRY BEST FOOD SAFETY PRACTICES: Listeria Control Program

Mark Your Calendar

Join us in San Diego for an event featuring leading researchers, regulatory experts, and the unveiling of AFFI’s new food safety best practices!

*Special registration rate: any company registering two attendees will receive a complimentary 3rd registration

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Amass Your Food Safety Army!

Typical EM Program – QA/QC Focus

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• Management Commitment

• Risk Assessment and Evaluation

• Sampling Plan

• Sampling Methods

• Evaluation of Results

POLL

• Increase the number of swabs.

• Decrease the number of swabs.

• No change in swab count.

How will your environmental monitoring program change in 2019?

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Re-evaluation of EM Programs

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• Increased incidents

• FSMA compliance

• FDA “swab-a-thons”

• Negative operational impact

Food Safety Magazine, June/July 2018

Average Reduction? … 18 % Average Increase?

… 107 %

What else can we do?

Typical EM Outcomes

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Take Swabs

Receive A

Positive Result

Perform A Root Cause

Analyses

• Equipment-- Damaged, unintended use, sanitation design challenges, etc.

• Facility Design-- aging floors, walls, ceilings, poor drains,

etc.

• Employee Practices

-- incomplete sanitation, GMP issues, etc.

Reactive!

PREVENTIVE EM Program – Amass Your Army!

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1. Risk Awareness

2. Shared Responsibility

3. Communication Plan

4. Recognition/Rewards

Employees Focus

1. Risk Awareness

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Educate Employees on the Pathogen Battle

• Present Micro 101

• Share the Why!

• Explain the investment

2. Shared Responsibility

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2. Shared Responsibility

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Creating the Inter-dependency Link

• Establish clear food safety responsibilities for all job roles

• Explain the importance of other departments

• Include employees/cross-functional personnel in EM Team

• Explain sampling site choices

• Hold short cross functional food safety mtgs

• Include employees in root cause analyses

• Obtain personal commitment

3. Communication Plan

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Establish Expectations of Employees

• Explain employees role in identifying areas of risk

• Present clear process for reporting risk areas

• Convey varied approaches/responses to identified risks

Share the News

• Post EM results

• Identify and share “focus areas”

• Share photo of an area of concern in breakroom

• Use EM sampling events to emphasis food safety protocols

Typical Employee Satisfaction Gap?… “The lack of communication in the organization”

EM Progress Report!

A+

4. Recognition and Rewards

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Launch the Recognition/Reward Program

• Communicate the “Food Safety Champion” recognition program

• Celebrate the early wins!

• Consider a monthly focus

• Other Considerations

• Insure you are driving the right behaviors

• Insure the rewards are appropriate

• Insure program is resourced

• Consider both group and individual winners

• Keep things simple – sustainable!

• Incorporate into existing continuous improvement program

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Leverage Your Employees!

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Enhance your EMP:• Expand Risk

Awareness• Share Food Safety

Responsibilities• Communicate

New Approach• Create Recognition

and Rewards

Alchemy’s Employee Engagement Solutions

• Educate your employees with multilingual food safety courses

• Keep food safety fundamentals top-of-mind with huddle guides and signage

• Drive continuous improvement with an on-the-job coaching app

• Stay audit-ready with automatic documentation and real-time reporting

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Q&A

THANK YOU

Questions? Laura Dunn NelsonLaura.nelson@alchemysystems.com