The Importance Of Food Safety Training Authorities

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In the UK the main authority is the Food Standard Agency. The Food Standards Agency is an independent Government department set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food. There core function is to create a vision of Safe food and healthy eating for all individuals on the British Isles. These authorities are important entities that make sure that the end user gets the correct product with the correct ingredients and avoids individuals becoming ill due to lack of food safety regulations.
The best way to combat issues of misconduct in food safety issues is to go back to the front line and ensure that the correct training is carried out by companies who make the food and are responsible for the end product. All food companies in Ireland and the UK are required by law to ensure that all employees are trained in the correct disciplines of food safety training. The difficulty that employers are faced with is the ability to train large numbers of staff while making sure that the production line does not suffer due to lack of human resources. One company who has ...
... just released a new training solution for food companies involved in the Manufacturing, Retail and Food industries is Group Learnerâ„¢. Group Learnerâ„¢ identified the problem that employers were having in terms of the ability of training large volumes of people in a short time span and created the solution based on these findings.
Group Learnerâ„¢ combines City and Guilds accredited courseware along with a unique keypad training system to enable you to train and assess 100's of people in a very short space of time. Companies simply bring together a group of trainees (up to 100 at a time), show them the Group Learner training course and they use the keypads to answer the assessment questions. An assessment record for every trainee is stored within the system so trainers can report and generate certificates at the click of a button.
Group Learnerâ„¢ partners with leading courseware suppliers making a large amount of courseware available. Trainees can chose from Food Safety Levels 1 and 2 in Manufacturing, Retail and Catering. They also have Health and Safety for Food Workers Level 2. All these courses are accredited by City and Guilds. These courses can all be completed in less than 2 hours. This allows participants to train 100 people in a City and Guilds accredited training course in under 2 hours!
In addition to this Group Learnerâ„¢ have a wide range of simple, quick shot Health and Safety Courses such as Manual Handling, Slips Trips and fall and Working at Heights to name just a few. These courses can be completed in less than 45 minutes.