Biography
Biography: Herbert W Ockerman
Abstract
The best food safety program is useless unless the employees that handle the food are convinced that it is important. Convincing them that something they cannot see is important to food safety is difficult and at best short term. The dictum that “a picture is worth a thousand words” can be effective in communicating the importance of food safety and making the invisible visible. This presentation is designed as an employee training program for a meat environment, but the approach is just as effective for all food areas and it works best when all employees are involved. The objective of the training is to reinforce the critical nature of food safety and sanitation to the well-being of consumers and to the success of the food industry.