Food Safety Culture
Creating a Behavior-Based Food Safety Management System
Authors: Yiannas, Frank
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Food safety awareness is at an all time high, new and emerging threats to the food supply are being recognized, and consumers are eating more and more meals prepared outside of the home. Accordingly, retail and foodservice establishments, as well as food producers at all levels of the food production chain, have a growing responsibility to ensure that proper food safety and sanitation practices are followed, thereby, safeguarding the health of their guests and customers.
Achieving food safety success in this changing environment requires going beyond traditional training, testing, and inspectional approaches to managing risks. It requires a better understanding of organizational culture and the human dimensions of food safety. To improve the food safety performance of a retail or foodservice establishment, an organization with thousands of employees, or a local community, you must change the way people do things. You must change their behavior. In fact, simply put, food safety equals behavior.
The importance of organizational culture, human behavior, and systems thinking is well documented in the occupational safety and health fields. However, significant contributions to the scientific literature on these topics are noticeably absent in the field of food safety. This book is the first significant contribution on how to create a behavior-based food safety management system.
This book is intended for food safety professionals involved with the retail and foodservice industry, as well as quality assurance professionals working in food processing plants, Federal regulatory officials, and professionals employed by state agricultural agencies and local health departments.
- About the authors
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Frank Yiannas is the Director of Safety and Health at the Walt Disney World Corporation, Kissimmee, Florida.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Looking Back to Shape the Future
Pages 1-10
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Why the Focus on Culture?
Pages 1-9
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A Systems-Based Approach to Food Safety
Pages 1-8
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Creating Food Safety Performance Expectations
Pages 1-9
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Educating and Training to Influence Behavior
Pages 1-9
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Food Safety Culture
- Book Subtitle
- Creating a Behavior-Based Food Safety Management System
- Authors
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- Frank Yiannas
- Series Title
- Food Microbiology and Food Safety
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-387-72867-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-0-387-72867-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-72866-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-2500-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 96
- Number of Illustrations
- 30 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
- Topics