3 Factors That Influence Employee Acceptance Of Food Safety Practices

By Lance Schultz, Food Safety Consultant

Despite rigorous efforts to inform and educate staff, why does training not always translate to improvement in food safety practices?

Positive food-safety behaviors have been linked to preventing food borne illnesses and are necessary for the best possible measure of food safety. Scientific literature shows that preventing foodborne illness depends on the behaviours of workers and management who operate food production systems.

One such scientific article, Factors influencing workers to follow food safety management systems in meat plants in Ontario, Canada, identified factors influencing workers in their implementation of food safety practices in a medium-sized meat processing establishment. In the study, thirteen interviews were conducted and the scripts were analyzed using NVivo 7, qualitative data analysis software. From the data collected, three themes emerged relating to how well food safety practices are accepted: production systems, organizational characteristics, and employee characteristics.

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