The goal is to help form a national consciousness for food safety education and awareness.
The primary focus will be on these questions:
- What is the greatest challenge in your jurisdiction, concerning the enforcement of food safety education requirements? Is it the public’s ignorance of regulations? Resistance to learning? Refusal to change? Procrastination by those who must meet the regulations?
- How do you communicate with the various health department offices throughout your jurisdiction? Phone? Email? Other?
- How do you communicate with those who must follow the regulations?
- Do you have any methods to communicate with the general public?
- Are you directly involved in the development of Food Service regulations, such as standard practices concerning bare-hand contact, temperature control, facility design, other?
- Are you directly involved in creating legislation and statutes for food safety?
- Do inspectors in your jurisdiction have the authority to instantly close an operation for excessive food safety violations?
- Can you name one thing which would be the most help to you in your task of enforcing food safety regulations? This can be a policy, a method of communication, broader powers of enforcement, or anything else.
- Would a partnership between your department, public schools, and food safety training organizations be a benefit in your quest to promote food safety education to everyone?
If you're a regulatory administrator, you're input is requested.
If you know a regulatory administrator with especially good ideas and high standards, please let me know.
Andy Bozeman, AHI 9200, CFPM
phone 334-834-1714
internet FoodSafetyTrainingCenter.com
