Food Safety Culture
Through practical guidance and real-world applications, learners will explore how to embed a culture of Food Safety across all levels of an organisation.
Course information
- Location
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Online Synchronous
- Next course
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25th September 2025
- Participation Fee
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€625 (ex. VAT)
- Application deadline
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16th September 2025
About : Developed by Social Food
This interactive face-to-face course provides an in-depth exploration of Food Safety Culture. It offers short, focused lectures and engaging discussions on key topics and challenges in the field.
Combining key insights from international academic and industry sources with practical experience in food safety management, this course explores official standards, emerging challenges, and real-world case studies. Participants will gain a clear understanding of the vital role Food Safety Culture plays in food production and learn how to use this knowledge to enhance the development and maturity of initiatives that promote a strong Food Safety Culture within their organisation.
Advantages :
- Stay compliant and ahead of the curve: Gain knowledge aligned with key global standards, including EU regulations, Global Food Safety Initiative and U.S. food safety laws.
- Build essential leadership and critical thinking skills: Strengthen your ability to lead, influence, and analyse Food Safety practices across all levels of an organisation.
- Harness technology to drive positive change: Engage in a foresighted understanding of technology and its potential role in fostering a robust Food Safety Culture.
What you'll learn : You will learn the following competencies
Food systems
- Analyse the food system using a range of systems approaches to appraise current and future sustainability challenges.
- Implement innovative responses to address sustainability challenges in the food system.
Technology management
- Mobilise appropriate technologies in innovation processes.
- Design effective actions to mitigate key unintended consequences of the use of emerging technologies.
Contribute to the development of new technologies for food system transformation.
Problem solving
- Appraise the problem space to identify current and future needs.
- Mobilise effective methodologies to generate new ideas.
- Appraise the validity of new ideas and co-create sustainable solutions.
Critical thinking
- Collect, analyse, interpret and report information to develop sustainable solutions to current and future challenges.
- Appraise unintended consequences of any course of action to devise ethical goals.
Leadership
- Appraise different strategies to deliver a food system innovation.
- Demonstrate leadership towards the implementation of a food system innovation.
Communication
- Devise effective communication methods that support organisational strategies.
- Engage in honest and inclusive two-way communication with stakeholders about their concerns.
- Adjust messaging for different audiences
Structure & Modules
- Day 1: Food Safety Culture Basics
On Day 1, you'll explore why Food Safety Culture is now a regulatory requirement and how it addresses the gaps left by traditional food safety management systems. The session tackles common misconceptions, introduces the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Position Paper, and outlines practical ways to begin building a positive food safety culture.
Through real-life examples, you'll examine how subcultures can form within factory settings—and how greater alignment and consistency can be achieved across teams and departments.
- Day 2: Food Safety Culture – Broader Considerations
On Day 2, you'll explore the practical, human, and organisational factors that shape food safety culture in real-world settings. You'll learn how to use metrics and KPIs to support cultural insight—not replace it—and discover how training, audits, and root cause analysis can be redesigned to reflect actual behaviours. With insights from scientific observation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation Foresight Report, you'll gain a future-focused perspective on the evolving challenges in food safety.
Finally, we reflect on how to build and sustain a “Just Culture”—an approach that empowers people, supports learning, and drives continuous improvement in everyday food safety practice.
- Days 3-8: Self-Study and Final Summative Assessment Submission and Feedback
Key Topics:
- Why Food Safety systems fail beyond the paperwork
- The role of societal values in shaping Food Safety behaviours
- Leadership at every level: top-down and bottom-up engagement
- Leveraging technology to support cultural change
- Aligning mindsets across the organisation
- Insights from global research on Food Safety Culture
- Rethinking Food Safety Management: Common gaps and misconceptions
- Behavioural insights in food safety practice
- Global regulations and guidance on Food Safety Culture
- Setting meaningful, preventive, and outcome-based KPIs
- Moving beyond compliance to build a strong safety culture
- Just Culture principles and Food Safety ethics
Who can attend
This training is designed for Food professionals who wish to improve their compentencies in Food Safety.
- Students in food-related studies, with a solid understanding of Food Safety Management Standards
- Executives and key team members from food manufacturing companies
- Entire HACCP teams, for stronger collective outcomes
Delivery Schedule & Frequency
- Join a course that runs monthly — find a date that suits your schedule
2025 course start dates: 23rd October, 27th November & 15th December - Online Synchronous — access to Zoom is required
- Learn in a supportive, small-group setting with just 10 participants
- Part of a HACCP team? Apply as a full team to train together
Training Provider : Social Food
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