Food and Ag Processing Safety

Businesses that manufacture, process, package or handle food must take every precaution to prevent contamination and spoilage. Proper instruction is essential for ensuring these companies and their employees adhere to stringent safety practices and guidelines. Safety Made Simple offers an array of online training programs designed to help food industry entities achieve these objectives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 48 million people in the U.S. become sick from foodborne illnesses each year, resulting in 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. Completing our food safety training programs can reduce the likelihood that your business will contribute to these statistics. You'll learn safe practices that protect your workers and consumers from potentially serious diseases.

Our interactive food safety training resources cover essential areas that impact your business. Examples include:

Traceability and Recall: Learn about various traceability and recall systems and why they're important for ensuring food safety.

Allergen Handling: Our 20-minute allergen handling training program teaches you how to identify the nine major food allergens in the U.S. You'll also learn how to apply practices to protect people with food allergies.

Food Safety: Food Defense Awareness - Food Defense Surveillance: Use our food defense online training course to identify intentional alteration, the practice of deliberately contaminating food supplies. Learn procedures to safeguard your facility against internal and external threats.

Personal Hygiene and Employee Illness Reporting: This valuable course instructs employees on how to practice safe hygiene habits at work and at home to prevent foodborne illnesses. Workers will also learn when to report illnesses to their supervisors.

Sanitation and Pest Control: This session focuses on understanding the Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) and how to apply them in the workplace. You'll also learn how to manage pesticide use safely.

Other food safety areas our courses address include good manufacturing practices and understanding the basics of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) food safety guidelines.

• Grain Handling Safety
• General Safety
• Agriculture Safety
• Livestock Safety
• Agronomy Safety
• Construction Safety
• Employee Development
• DOT / Driver Safety