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[boarsrock]

Hi Guys

I work in a large petfood manufacturing plant. I am implementing a programme to raise awareness of food safety in the maintenance/reliability sections of the business. Maintenance staff can slip through the net as far as the normal food safety controls because they are more likely to be working during down time when HACCP controls are at their most lax, lack of awareness of food safety can introduce risks.

I would like to give out some information cards (credit card size) that the workers can carry on their keyrings, much like the OH & S cards for Risk assessment. Does anyone have a template or has seen such things before?

I would imagine that I could incorporate questions such as ' are you likely to change the environmental factors and introduce necessities of microbial growth, moisture, food source, change of temperature etc?' ' Has the equipment you are using and/or installing been clean and sanitised?' ' Is there any chance of cross contamination, have you or your tools moved from a hot zone to a cold zone?'.

The worker's have been exposed to quite a few educational presentations so the cards would be just used as prompts to remember Food Safety issues and aid in risk assessing tasks in relation to food safety.

Any thoughts or examples would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[Anne Z]

Hello,

I won't recommend small safety cards, as at some places in the factory you aren't allowed to have plastic, keys etc.

Last year I put up some safety posters. Work safety and not food safety. But maybe it helps you as well....as the idea is to remind people how they should act.
The idea of the champagne was "your guardian angel can be on a holiday so be carefull". I put the live size guardian angel in the cantine and some other places. Of course people are talking about the angels and the posters. However the effects only last a few weeks...after that the effect of a poster or even a live size angel is gone. So make it interesting....


In case you're wondering how the guardian angel looked like http://www.veiligheid.nl/alerta

Good luck!

[Simon]

Hi Boarsrock, I'm very tempted to get my soapbox out, but I know if I say they'll probably use the cards for getting their dinner out of their teeth - I'll sound negative.

Take a look at this old topic.

Why Don't Engineeers Follow the Rules

Anyone got ideas on the cards?

[QAGirl]

I agree with Simon.
Even if something like small plastic cards is allowed; chances are people will forget about them, or yes, use them as a toothpick
Signs, posters and anything eye-catching is the way to go.
And if you plan on using these as just a reminder......keep it short.
Place your reminders in your high risk areas, as well as places such as bathrooms and lunchroom, and any other area where your empoyees tend to congregate.

[Simon]

I admit it is a constant battle trying to refresh the same information in an interesting way, however it is important and that’s why it’s included as a requirement in food safety management systems standards. You have to keep the conversation going and in my experience training is most effective when it related directly to what the operators do. Humour is useful.