4 March 2021
Report webinar 1: Food Hygiene, safety and handling
Report
The FLAVOUR project team at Marjon University, together with the project’s partners in Brighton (FareShare Sussex and Brighton and Hove Food Partnership) organised a free training webinar to organisations and individuals working in food (surplus) processing and distribution.
The
participants had the opportunity to learn about the essentials of food
safety and hygiene, the impact of Covid-19 on food hygiene and safety,
developing their skills as a coach or mentor.
Wayne Blything,
currently the Food Safety Manager at Harrods, talked in detail about the
four Food Safety Hazards, the three Pillars to Food Safety and the
COVID Risk Assessment – responsibilities and considerations.
The FLAVOUR team designed an interactive tool – animation videos
(see also below ) – which highlights in a creative and humorous way
that the fight against bacteria starts with personal hygiene. The video
then goes on to explain various rules that guarantee food safety for
food processing. For example, it mentions specific rules about keeping
food at certain temperatures, preventing cross-contamination, and
maintaining a high standard of general cleanliness of worktops and
equipment.
The visual animated ‘learning’ resource offers an easy
and effective way to communicate important food safety and hygiene rules
and regulations to those working in the food (surplus) sector. This
animation video is a tool for organisations or individual
coaches/mentors and can be used to easily explain the basic food safety
and food hygiene rules.
The feedback from the participants who
took part has been excellent, for example the participants valued having
the opportunity to connect with other people in similar roles,
developing their coaching/mentoring styles and gaining practical food
hygiene and safety advice.
The project team is planning two more
webinars focusing on food distribution and logistics, food waste, health
and well-being. Each webinar will also address specific coaching and
mentoring techniques and tactics to help coaches/mentors in their work
with people far from the labour market.
Thank you to all the
participants and speakers who attended the successful Zoom event. We
look forward to welcoming you back again soon and extend a warm
invitation to any new guests (attendants).
The Belgium project
partners (Herw!n, VIVES Hogeschool and Vonst) delivered a comparable
webinar to all the Dutch and Belgium partners, collaborators and other
food (surplus) processing or distributing organisations. Read more here.
The
webinars are part of the FLAVOUR project that aims to create socially
innovative business models to increase the efficiency and effectiveness
of services dealing with food surplus whilst creating jobs/pathways to
employment. The webinars are to foster cross – border learning and
engagement and create a platform for sharing knowledge and resources;
with the aim of supporting mentors/coaches and organisations in their
work with people far from the labour market in the food ‘surplus’
sector.
Tools
The Flavour team is working on several tools to use on the workfloor,
aimed at coaches and mentors of people far from the labour market. The
animation videos below are an example of these tools. At the end of the
project all tools, good practices will be put together in a training
guide.
On the left below: basic food safety/handling rules in the kitchen
On the right below: basic food safety/handling rules in distribution