UL Food Safety will help mitigate risk by employing science-based processes to help address industry concerns, new government regulations and heightened consumer awareness of food safety issues, the company said.
Hank Lambert, general manager of UL’s Global Food and Water Businesses, said: “As safety evolves, so does UL. UL Food Safety is a natural extension of our commitment to help protect people, products and places from new risks in new and important ways.”
UL Food Safety is launching its initial training platform with the first of three courses, Food Safety Culture, which is designed to guide food industry executives through the process of creating an organisational culture to ensure that food products are safe and meet consumer and regulatory requirements.
It also establishes a framework for corporate management responsibility, communication of food safety objectives to all company employees, and continuous improvement in HACCP and overall food safety systems.
Developed by UL and food industry experts, this food safety culture curriculum integrates behavioural science with food science across organisations within the food supply chain to help assure that food professionals, from senior management to line workers, are empowered to work towards the production and supply of safe food products in a healthy and sanitary work environment.
The UL Food Safety training programme will include succeeding courses on Food Safety Awareness which provides actionable information to empower and equip food industry workers to the first line of defence in food safety and Evaluation of HACCP & Food Safety Preventative Control Programmes which provides mid-level management and auditors the practical knowledge to make effective decisions in critical situations.
Source: Underwriters Laboratories
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