Food safety training protects your customers from health risks. Providing adequate food safety training to everyone who handles food in your business is essential to protecting your customers from food poisoning, allergic reactions and other health risks that could occur from eating contaminated food.

Why Food Safety Training is Important

Some food businesses still regard food safety as simply an extension of common sense, which is reflected in their food safety training policies (or lack thereof). A common sense approach to food safety may cut it at home where the only person you can harm is yourself, but it’s not good enough when you’re providing food to the public.

This is the case for a number of reasons. If you own, operate, manage or work in a food business:

• you are held to a higher standard by Health Inspectors
• you have to comply with federal, provincial and municipal laws and bylaws
• you face legal and financial consequences if you fail to handle food safely
• you could be fined or closed down for failing to meet food safety or hygiene standards

Food businesses are full of safety hazards — e.g. cleaning chemicals, broken glass, bacteria, viruses, toxins — and the only way to protect your customers, your business and yourself from these hazards is through ongoing food safety training and education.

Food safety training protects your customers from health risks

Providing adequate food safety training to everyone who handles food in your business is essential to protecting your customers from food poisoning, allergic reactions and other health risks that could occur from eating contaminated food.