A well-trained staff means well-made products, so how can your brand achieve both?
Food and staff safety starts with food manufacturing training. Creating guidelines and following food safety policy helps keep food products safe for consumers and your team from workplace injuries. However, it’s critical that your company’s training is comprehensive so it can be effective.
In this guide, we’ll go in-depth on how frozen food manufacturers can conduct successful food manufacturing training to inspire staff and create great products. We’ll review food safety policy regarding training, what food safety programs look like, and steps to take when designing a food production course with automated equipment. Quantum Technical Services is the industry leader in such equipment because we care about client success– success that starts with a well-trained staff!
Food Safety Policy and Training
The frozen food manufacturing industry needs to adhere to food safety policies, including training requirements. The FDA requires that employees need to be trained in proper methods to keep products safe and operations hygienic. Requiring training to meet FDA food safety policy mitigates the cases of foodborne illnesses, which can be deadly. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act was created to strengthen guidelines surrounding food safety. This Act highlights how necessary food manufacturing training is to ensure that food products are safe for consumers.
The local and federal laws regarding food safety policy are intricate, so it’s important to understand them within your brand’s jurisdiction. This helps your label stay up to date in food safety and create consumer-ready food. In addition to being legally required, training gives brands the opportunity to level up employee education, operations, and even their products. So, how can your brand implement such training?
In order to keep your employees and products safe, it’s critical (and legally required) to properly train your employees on proper food manufacturing procedures. This starts with developing and adhering to food safety programs that can effectively convey vital information to your team.
Food Safety Programs
Food safety programs keep food manufacturing teams safe from workplace injuries and ensure that their working knowledge of operations is current. Topics can include hygiene, workflows, and maintenance. However, it’s important to key aspects of food safety programs include schedules scheduled training, team safety refreshers, and incorporating safer equipment.
Scheduled Training
Scheduled training can take place during onboarding, annually, or throughout the year, for example. Scheduled reading is a simple yet straightforward way to connect with your employees to convey the necessary information needed to succeed. Training upon onboarding is critical in a new employee’s success as they learn workflows and operations. Yearly training is helpful to highlight important skills and safety protocols to ensure that everyone is on the same page.
Team Safety Refreshers
Like yearly trainings, holding team safety refreshers as needed further reiterates vital information. These safety refreshers can follow incidents or times of lowered productivity to reinspire staff. This way, food safety programs can continue to encourage team success. Here, it’s important to make sure that your team feels comfortable asking questions so mistakes can be avoided and your team can make strides while improving efficiency.
Incorporating Safer Equipment
While employing safer automated equipment isn’t part of a training program, this technology does improve the food manufacturing process as it relates to safety. This equipment is not only easier to maintain, but it helps prevent employee injury and food contamination. Incorporating new technology demonstrates your company’s commitment to employee and food safety, especially since automated equipment simplifies maintenance– a good food manufacturing practice. Your frozen food label can easily improve productivity while streamlining safety with automated food equipment from Quantum Technical Services. Our technology allows brands to seamlessly integrate new machines into existing production lines to increase efficiency. Safer automated equipment simplifies implementing safety practices while improving operations.
Scheduled training, refresher courses, and using safer equipment are all critical components of food safety programs. Now, let’s explore what makes an effective food production course when implementing automated food equipment.
Designing a Food Production Course on Automated Equipment
When your company is designing a food production course on automated equipment, it doesn’t have to start from scratch. New automated equipment is just another aspect of food manufacturing, and your leadership can apply the same principles when training the staff. In a food production course, we recommend talking with the experts to outline objectives, develop safety guidelines, and provide hands-on training with the equipment.
Talk With the Experts and Outline Objectives
Talking with the experts is an effective way to begin designing a food production course in automated equipment, especially if your brand is new and hasn’t used such equipment yet. At Quantum, we encourage our clients to contact us with any questions. As you talk with us, we can help your team outline training objectives to ensure that everyone’s on the same page. Our team of experts can help you gather the necessary information to successfully train your team.
Develop Safety Guidelines
With our automated equipment expertise, your leadership can develop safety guidelines, unique to your production lines. By creating a tailored set of guidelines, your staff can train with the necessary information to remain safe and operate the machines correctly.
Provide Hands-On Training
Once your staff receives the proper safety education, your leadership can start hands-on training with your automated equipment. Supervising staff as they learn goes to operate, maintain, and restock the equipment makes thorough food manufacturing training. Hands-on training boosts employee confidence while staff can learn how to successfully operate the equipment.
Improve Food Safety With Quantum
Quantum is committed to improving our clients’ food safety with our state-of-the-art automated food equipment. Our industry-leading machinery is easy to clean, simple to maintain, and requires less employee interaction to keep your team safe. These features make your frozen food products safer for your customers, limiting the chance of pathogen contamination, ingredient build-up, and employee errors. Quantum equipment sets the standard for food safety in the food manufacturing industry. Contact our team today to learn how your brand can improve food safety with any of our automated solutions.