Culture is often considered the core of a flourishing organization. Culture is based on a firmly held and widely shared set of beliefs supported by strategy and structure. A strong culture empowers employees to deliver their best consistently.

Frank Yiannas, FDA Deputy Commissioner of Food Policy and Response, drew a brilliant analogy of building a food safety culture and envisioned this as a trademark for every food safety organization. As written in his book, Food Safety Culture Creating a Behavior, “Your goal should be to create a food safety culture – not a food safety program. There is a big difference between the two. Culture is one of those terms getting used often in today’s society, maybe even overused.”

Food Safety Culture and its Importance

Developing a Food Safety Culture in the food safety industries will lay out a longer-term thought process, which can help industries stay away from safety failures. This will shape attitudes towards food safety, willingness to discuss food safety concerns, and enhance the attention to the details regarding food safety.

The consequences of not having a solid Food Safety Culture can have an adverse impact:

• Consumers health
• Brand’s reputation
• Business finance

Maintaining a qualified Food Safety Culture can reduce the dangers of food safety incidents. In organizations with a weak culture, incidents are not acted upon sufficiently, and instructions are not followed, which means the business is at risk of more incidents. On the other hand, a poor safety culture settles for lesser food safety.

For example, if incidents are not reported and lessons learned, they will continue to occur; this is neither efficient nor effective for long-term food safety goals. This may affect employees' morale, discourage them from taking ownership, and bring operational deficiencies.

Planning or establishing a food safety culture will require strong commitment at all levels of the organization, starting from the top to bottom. This will develop a more practical long-term analytical thinking towards a lasting food safety culture. In today’s times, focusing on food safety programs may not give the expected deliverables, whereas a Food Safety Culture shall ensure successive deliverables.

Developing a Food Safety Culture At Smart Food Safe

As quoted by Prasant Prusty, “A smart technological evolution in the food safety management system will foster towards developing a niche Food Safety Culture,” we at Smart Food Safe swear by it.

Demonstrating How To Develop The Food Safety Culture.

With a vision to make food safety smarter with Smart technologies through software solutions, we have evolved to create a food safety culture and spread awareness. Smart Food Safe Software brings digital transparency to an organization that helps comply with the due diligence requirements and encourages employees to be more responsible and accountable. We strive harder with each passing day, developing a strong food safety culture to build a relation with food safety technology by focusing on and incorporating:

• Behaviour Change Theories
• Behavioural Theory
• Social Cognitive Theory
• Health Belief Model
• Theory of Reasoned Action

This has enhanced our outlook towards Food Safety and boosted us to strive harder to develop a more competent Food Safety Management module that focuses on food safety and encourages and builds a Food Safety Culture.

Let’s Grow In A Culture Of Wellness, Let’s Grow In Food Safety Culture. Learn More  how Smart Food Safe can help companies create a transparent food safety culture.