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Employee Training
Empowering Employees Through Food Safety Training. This section offers multilingual videos, posters, courses, and job aids to support new and experienced employees in understanding food safety principles, regulations, and workplace practices. From handwashing and GMPs to food safety culture and advanced workshops, these resources help build a knowledgeable and safety-focused team.
Resources
Resources for Employee Food Safety Training
ACS Learning Center & Archive
Access to educational webinars and materials available to ACS members for free.
New Employee Training Videos
Food Safety Training videos for new employees to watch before entering a facility.
Online Course for Food Safety Basics for Artisan Cheesemakers
On-demand, self-study resource, designed to help cheesemakers of all experience levels by providing important information in an easy-to-use format which is accessible at the user’s convenience. Includes topics on: Importance of Food Safety, Regulations and Standards, Food Safety Hazards, Good Manufacturing Practices and Process Controls and Environmental Pathogen Monitoring and Testing.
Cheese Food Safety Videos for Owners & Supervisors
Food Safety Hazards Training
Food Safety Training Schedule
Find links to videos, posters, templates & checklists.
Retail Training Materials
Food Safety Culture Webinar
Learn what Food Safety Culture is and How Best to Create It
Advanced Training Courses & Workshops
As personnel develop more in-depth training and certifications may be useful and/or required.
Spanish Translated Training Materials
New Employee Training Videos
Food Safety Training videos for new employees to watch before entering a facility
Cheese Food Safety Videos for Owners & Supervisors
Retail Training Materials
- Serv Safe Materials in English & Spanish: Online Food Handler Certification
- IDDBA FSMA Compliance Trainings: Explore Trainings and Certification Exams
- IDDBA Entrenamiento en linea de IDDBA: Job guides in Spanish
- IDDBA Successful Service Department Management Series
Food Safety Culture Webinar
Food Safety Culture Webinar: Learn what Food Safety Culture is and How Best to Create It
Advanced Training Courses & Workshops
As personnel develop more in-depth training and certifications may be useful and/or required. Some of these advanced training opportunities are listed below.
Cornell University
- Introduction to Food Safety Principles in Spanish and English - Self-paced online course
https://cals.cornell.edu/introduction-food-safety-principles-spanish-and-english - Dairy Science and Sanitation in Spanish and English - Self-paced online course https://cals.cornell.edu/education/degrees-programs/dairy-science-and-sanitation
- Accredited HACCP in Spanish and English - Self-paced online course https://cals.cornell.edu/education/degrees-programs/accredited-haccp
- 3-Day Milk Pasteurization Course - In-person and online course https://cals.cornell.edu/education/degrees-programs/high-temperature-short-time-htst-pasteurizer-workshop
- Vat Pasteurizer Course-Self-paced online course https://cals.cornell.edu/education/degrees-programs/vat-pasteurizer-workshop
- Certificate Programs & Courses https://cals.cornell.edu/dairy-extension/small-processors/certificate-program-courses
North Carolina State University
- Food Safety Basics for Ice Cream Makers
- Course 1: Importance of Food Safety
- Preventive Controls for Dairy Processors: https://units.cals.ncsu.edu/foodsafety/preventive-controls-for-dairy-processors/
- This course is appropriate for owners or managers. Participants will earn a HACCP Certificate and have one-on-one assistance with their food safety plan.
- Sanitation Controls Practitioners Program: https://units.cals.ncsu.edu/foodsafety/sanitation-essentials-in-food-manufacturing/
- This course is appropriate for employees with hands-on responsibility for sanitation. Participants learn how to carry out daily operations, how to be vigilant for emerging sanitation threats and how to maintain a sanitation program.
- Environmental Monitoring in the Dairy Industry: https://units.cals.ncsu.edu/foodsafety/environmental-monitoring-in-the-dairy-industry/
- GMPs for New Hires & Refresher Course: https://units.cals.ncsu.edu/foodsafety/gmps-for-new-hires-and-refresher-course/
- GMPs for Aspiring Managers: https://units.cals.ncsu.edu/foodsafety/gmps-for-aspiring-managers/
- GMPs Mastery Course Bundle: This course covers all GMP topics and provides resources for managers to use with their employees in group huddles to dig deeper into the GMP topics and promote discussions about food safety: https://units.cals.ncsu.edu/foodsafety/gmps-mastery-course-bundle/
- Food Safety & Quality Management Program: https://online-distance.ncsu.edu/program/undergraduate-certificate-food-safety-quality-management/
- Online course providing foundational skills and knowledge about food safety, quality control, and operations management concepts essential to career advancement related to the food manufacturing supply chain. Participants will earn an undergraduate certificate.
Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University
University of Wisconsin River Falls
Wisconsin Center For Dairy Research
- Training | Center for Dairy Research (wisc.edu)
- Advanced Sanitation | Center for Dairy Research (wisc.edu)
- HACCP Certification Workshop | Center for Dairy Research (wisc.edu) International HACCP Alliance Certified
- Environmental Monitoring
- Certificate in Dairy Processing (CDP) | Center for Dairy Research (wisc.edu)
- Safety & Quality | Center for Dairy Research (wisc.edu)
- Informational Short Training Videos
- Online Milk Pasteurization and Process Control Short Course with Spanish Captions
Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy Food Safety Workshops
- Upcoming Workshops from the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy
- Visit this interactive map of food safety resources for additional information.
Spanish Translated Training Materials
Guías / Guidance Documents:
- Recursos para acrecentar su negocio de producción de quesos de manera segura / Essentials to Start and Grow your Business Safely
- Control de Listeria monocytogenes: guía para la industria láctea de EE. UU. /Control of Listeria monocytogenes guidance
- Lista de verificación del diseño para el equipo de procesado de lácteos / Dairy Equipment Design Checklist
- Lista de verificación del diseño de la instalación láctea / Dairy Facility Checklist
- Ejemplo de SOP y lista de verificación de un plan para garantizar la inocuidad de los alimento /Example Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure (SSOP)
Posters listos para imprimir / Ready-to-print posters:
- Póster de Videos de Capacitación para Empleados con Códigos QR/Employee Training Videos Poster with QR Codes
- Póster de las Buenas Prácticas de Manufactura, GMP por sus siglas en inglés/GMP Poster
- Cartel de Concienciación sobre Alérgenos/ Allergen Awareness Poster
- Siete Pasos para una Desinfeccion Humeda Eficaz Poster/7 Steps for Effective Wet Sanitation Poster
Videos:
- Por qué es importante la seguridad alimentaria del queso (5 minutos)/Why Food Safety Why Matters
- Cómo minimizar los riesgos de la seguridad alimentaria del queso (5 minutos)/How to Minimize Food Safety Risk of Cheese
- Video de capacitación para nuevos empleados (5 minutos)/New Employee Training Video
Recursos sobre la Ley de Modernización de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos (FSMA, por sus siglas en inglés) / FSMA Resources:
- VIDEO: ¿Cuáles son los peligros biológicos en la planta? (12 minutos) / What are biological hazards
- VIDEO: ¿Cuáles son los peligros químicos y físicos? (12 minutos) / What are chemical and physical hazards
- VIDEO: ¿Cuáles son los controles de proceso para los peligros biológicos? (16 minutos) / What are process controls for biological hazards?
- VIDEO: ¿Cuáles son los controles para alérgenos? (21 minutos) / What are allergen controls?
- VIDEO: Controles preventivos de Sanidad y Saneamiento (18 minutos) / What are sanitation controls?
- Manual de los Controles Preventivos para Alimentos de Consumo Humano, de la FSPCA / FSPCA Participant Manual for Preventive Controls for Human Food
