Agenda

Developing a company culture built around food safety will make compliance with the new food safety standards much easier to accomplish. Learn how to embed a food safety ethos throughout all ranks within your organization. Take away practical insights on how to:

• Use current state as a benchmark to measure, manage and monitor change
• Adopt change management strategies to achieve buy-in to new corporate food safety goals
• ‘Lead from the middle’ and engage company executives to become active participants in culture change

New technologies are allowing manufacturers to achieve food safety excellence. Access the tools and techniques for successfully deploying your food safety compliance system. In this interactive workshop, you will take away strategies on:

1. Data Integration for effective communication between departments
2. Creating a “Cultural Disruption” as part of compliance training
3. Available tools to help you achieve to your goals
4. How to integrate tools and techniques to improve your training and compliance system

While regulations under FSMA and the SFCA are similar in most respects, there are gaps that could represent challenges to exporting your products to the U.S. Advance your awareness with Q&A with the speaker and optimize your process for success. Adapt your best practices to:

• Comply with FSMA regulations that differ from the SFCA
• Create a streamlined approach to incorporating both sets of regulations
• Stay ahead of the leading U.S. food safety issues and enforcement programs

Inform your company’s North American export strategy and avoid penalty.

Untrained employees are the cause of poor food safety. Ensure your permanent and temporary workers are trained using the latest techniques to maximize food safety compliance. Identify shortfalls in employee readiness and proactively determine a path for improvement. Create a roadmap to:

• Hone management skills and train temporary employees on a consistent basis
• Engage with employment agencies to determine where gaps in training may exist
• Develop a relationship with training facilities to identify and recruit top candidates

Adopt a comprehensive approach to employee training to improve GMP.

Foreign materials can have a disastrous effect on your brand. Develop innovative solutions to detect foreign materials before they contaminate your food products. Develop your strategy to:

• Enhance your glass and plastic controls
• Monitor your suppliers
• Ensure the quality of your equipment

Protect your brand with enhanced foreign material controls.

Consumers are increasingly demanding food that is free from pesticides. However monitoring farmers and crop control is extremely challenging. Master the success factors to:

• Work with farmers on their pesticide use
• Improve traceability standards across your supply chain
• Change your labelling so consumers are fully informed

Enhance your traceability program to include hard-to-monitor parts of the supply chain.

Consumer-facing businesses are always on the sharp end of the latest consumer trends that will impact your business. Enrich your food safety practices with insight into what consumers are looking for from the food service sector. Walk away with an action plan to:

• Align your product line-up with current consumer preferences
• Enshrine the latest food safety practices in your operating procedures and staff training
• Gain insight into how restaurants are staying on top of food safety

Don’t let your business become the next negative news item.

While the market for organics products continues to expand, there are specific challenges in this market that still need to be addressed. Boost your knowledge of what it takes to get properly certified organic product to market. Develop a blueprint to:

• Ensure your organic products can actually be certified as organic
• Improve your quality assurance program
• Adapt your communication strategies and product labelling to reflect the ongoing changes in this market

Reduce your risk of missing important changes in the organic marketplace..

Use tools and methodologies beyond those commonly prescribed for use in the food industry to deliver significant improvements not just to your food safety to also to your cost savings. Gain insight into integrating Lean Six-Sigma methodology to continuous improvement to create a proactive approach in your organization. Take away practical tips to:

• Strengthen your current HACCP program to reach new levels of effectiveness
• Employ root cause analysis to pinpoint areas of risk in your current process
• Reduce waste and improve your bottom line

Improve your food safety process, improve profitability, and safeguard your brand’s integrity.

The steady advance of global warming has increased concern that we face increased threats to food safety from new microbial hazards. There is an increase in foodborne pathogens and microorganisms resulting from more extreme weather events and you need to know how to identify them. Increase your organization’s level of preparedness for:

• Increases of certain types of pathogens, and the events that triggered them
• How climate change will impact microbial hazards on crops
• Specific types of microorganisms and foodborne pathogens thrive in warmer temperatures

Create a road map to inform your organization’s surveillance strategy.

As digital technology continues to transform all aspects of the food industry, traceability throughout the supply chain from farm to fork is the ultimate goal. Advance your knowledge of how the move to digital documentation will impact your food safety program. Discover the improvements to how you do business and your ability to meet new traceability standards digital documentation represents. Take away an action plan to:

• Identify the possibilities for an end-to-end digital record
• Determine the practical impact on your documentation system
• Strengthen your relationship with your suppliers and customers

Ensure your company achieves the new standards for traceability and benefits from transformational technology.

Food fraud continues to concern the food industry and the risk of damage to your reputation is high. Augment your food safety program to protect your brand. Source practical tips to:

• Apply the latest methods for detecting and deterring substitutions
• Adopt strategies for reducing opportunities for fraud
• Understand the role company culture and buying behaviour can play in deterring food fraud

Reduce your risk of food fraud.

To achieve real success with your food safety program, support from top management is crucial. Discover how you can bolster a culture of food safety within your organization. Walk away with an action plan to:

• Engage and train all employees to adopt a team approach food safety
• Audit existing sanitation procedures and products to identify areas for improvement
• Engage vendors with your food safety and quality assurance program

Perfect your font-line food safety control practices to create a culture of food safety.