Глобальна ініціатива безпеки харчових продуктів (GFSI) у квітні 2018 року опубликувала свою нову позицію на тему «Культура безпечності харчових продуктів». Це документ на 54 сторінках, на який було витрачено 18 місяців роботи 35 представників від 12 країн.
Whether a company manages to ensure the quality and safety of its products over the long term is largely dependent on the corporate culture and value system within the organization. However, since topics such as corporate culture are difficult to capture in standards, they remain in the background in current certification systems such as IFS, BRC and FSSC 22000.
With its new position paper, the GFSI now aims to remedy this situation. The paper is intended to help managers and practitioners in the food industry to establish and maintain a culture of food safety. Essentially, the paper addresses three key areas:
In doing so, the authors are aware that they are trying a balancing act between, on the one hand, laws and standards that clearly regulate food safety and, on the other hand, the concept of culture, which goes far beyond that. Culture works independently of laws and more instinctively; the tools and checklists provided are an attempt - based on the authors' corporate experience - to convey how a corporate culture can be fostered and adapted to existing food safety initiatives.
In terms of content, the document is divided into five chapters that correspond to the five dimensions of a food safety culture; these are vision & mission, people, consistency, adaptability, hazards and risk awareness. Each of these chapters provides detailed information on achieving mature and sustainable food safety. In addition, guiding questions and supplemental appendices facilitate entry and understanding.
The authors put the document together under two guiding principles: first, the content had to be based on existing scientific evidence; and second, it had to have a clear practical focus on the most critical areas of food safety. In other words, with this guide, the GFSI aims to provide the most necessary and practical information for developing a corporate food safety culture.
You can download the full report of the GFSI working group entitled "A Culture of Food Safety" in Click here download it in English.
DQS is an approved certification body for the BRCGS additional module "Food Safety Culture".
Д-р Тійс Віллаерт є керівником відділу маркетингу та комунікацій у сегментах сталого розвитку та безпечності харчових продуктів. Він також є аудитором зовнішнього аудиту звітів про сталий розвиток. Сфери його інтересів включають менеджмент сталого розвитку, стійкі закупівлі та цифровізацію аудиторій.
