Food Safety Culture and You

$ 199

Time

3.0 Hours

Modules

4 Lessons

Learning Recognition Framework (LRF) Level

Workplace Essential

Recognition Certificate

12k Enrolled

Course description

Cultivate a mindset where safety and quality drive every decision. This course equips employees in the food and beverage processing industry with a practical, scenario-based understanding of food safety culture and its impact on consumer protection, compliance, and organizational trust. Participants will explore how individual actions, communication, and accountability shape food safety outcomes, along with the shared responsibilities of governments, organizations, and workers in safeguarding the food supply. The course examines cultural influences on food safety practices, including national culture, workplace formality, power hierarchy, and communication styles, while clarifying key regulatory concepts such as legislation, regulations, and guidelines. By strengthening personal responsibility and ethical decision-making, employees help uphold the highest food safety standards—every day, in every role.

Skills you will learn:

  • Food safety culture
  • Personal accountability
  • Ethical decision making
  • Regulatory awareness

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
  • Understand how national culture shapes the workplace by recognizing key cultural factors and how they influence expectations, communication, and teamwork.
  • Navigate Canadian food safety expectations with confidence by understanding formality, power hierarchy, and workplace communication—and how Canadian culture supports food safety requirements.
  • Operate with compliance clarity by defining legislation, regulations, and guidelines and understanding how food safety is shared between government, industry, and consumers.
  • Build trust and future readiness by recognizing stakeholder roles (Health Canada, PHAC, AAFC, CFIA), protecting consumer confidence through safer practices and education, and strengthening your own accountability, assertive communication, and upskilling.

Who Should Take This Course?

  • All employees involved in food production, handling, or quality assurance.
  • Supervisors and managers leading food safety and compliance initiatives.
  • New hires building awareness of workplace safety expectations.

Course Outline & Major Topics

  1. Cultural Perspectives in the CANADIAN Workplace
  2. Government & Industry Collaboration
  3. Consumer Roles & Expectations
  4. Accountability in Food Safety

Course description

This course provides an understanding of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and the importance of having a food safety program. This introductory program outlines how every person working at that facility can have either a positive or a negative impact on food safety. Participants should be able to explain the benefits of a HACCP system, understand hazards and how they can be controlled, and the importance of GMP and Prerequisite Programs.

You will learn that food safety hazards are; biological, chemical, or physical substances that can make a food product unsafe to eat and cause illness, injury or death if consumed. You will also learn how biological, chemical, and physical hazards can be harmful to human health and how to prevent and control them.

Skills you will learn:

Food Safety

Cleaning

Quality Assurance

Hazards

Decumention

Pest Sources

Chemical Hazards

Learning Objectives

Once you have completed the course, you will have obtained the skills to understand the importance and benefits of food safety. What a HACCP system is and who invented it including:

Who Should Take This Course?

Course Outline & Major Topics

What is a Food Safety Program (HACCP System)

*Receive a nationally recognized certificate for participation in this course

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