Saturday, 26 September 2015
Thursday, 17 September 2015
GCSE-FHP Launches Its Cost Sharing Arrangement with SSQA Flagship Operations:
With the approaching implementation of new food regulations in the US, Canada and other countries, GCSE-Food and Health Protection is
prepared to take the bold steps with you that will involve some cost sharing
arrangements. GCSE-FHP is prepared to help you with certification stress relief, gain increased customer confidence and establish productive customer relations.
We are looking for SSQA flagship operations to work with in managing the cost of developing and implementing programs that meet the evolving regulations. The lead technical resource contact is the Food Sector Chair for GCSE-FHP (Felix Amiri).
If your company is interested in becoming a flagship operation, you may request details from the Coalition Technical Team
If you are interested in serving as the SSQA
Facilitator for a flagship operation you may also request details from the Coalition Technical Team
Saturday, 12 September 2015
Step Up to Distinction
This blog post has been moved to the author's eBook.
Posted by Felix Amiri
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Sham Invasion (Fraud Expansion in the Food Industry)
This blog post has been moved to the author's eBook.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KHD313B
Posted By Felix Amiri
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Felix Amiri is the current Food Sector Chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Small Advice for Your Planned Yearly Training
The
Bane of the Generic Training
You are likely opposed to training that merely presents generic information, especially
information that is unrelated to real life events in the operations where the
trainees are engaged. Generic training does more harm than good in some
instances. At the least, it wastes valuable time and gives the false sense of satisfaction
that training has been done. Just
because some outside standard says you must provide GMP training to every
employee every year, you do not have to provide the same GMP training to all of your employees every year. Unfortunately, outside
standard auditors may mark this as a failure during the audits. So, like well
controlled robots, many operators provide the same GMP training to every employee
every year. As they sign the attendance sheet that will be presented to the outside auditors as evidence of completed training, the employees wonder what the trainers think of them.
Make
Training Useful
You
have to first establish what the people you are going to train need to know and
practice in order to avoid the most frequent undesirable incidents in your
operation. This means you must first identify those undesirable incidents. On
the other hand, you may want to encourage an increased commitment to what is
producing desirable results in your operation but you must first identify what
is producing the desirable results. Once you have established either or both of
these, you can then build your training content, method of delivery, etc.
Further Reading: “Personnel Training – Mercenary or MOM”
Posted By Felix Amiri
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Felix Amiri is the current Food Sector Chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection
Thursday, 3 September 2015
Why We Obey
I listened to the CBC Ideas broadcast on “Why
We Obey” and, naturally, my mind went straight to the rules that must be obeyed
in my vocation. Many food businesses currently feel they have no choice but to obey
the following rules:
- You shall conduct third party audits to confirm that you are able and committed to implementing your food safety program according to one of the commercialized third party schemes.
- You shall be certified to the selected third party auditing scheme.
- You shall conduct re-certification audits every year.
Why do some businesses feel they must obey these
rules with the usual rationalization that they cannot do business if they do
not obey?
Posted By Felix Amiri
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Felix Amiri is the current Food Sector Chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Free Quick Guide to SFCA Required CFIA Registration-Licensing Process
The
Safe Food for Canadians Act (SFCA) may seem like a distant rumble to some
people at the moment. You may not even have heard or known anything about this.
The regulations are currently being developed and they will be enforced at some
point when the reviews and revisions have gone on for some time. For many food operations in Canada, it is no longer a matter of choice.
Every Canadian food business that imports, exports or conducts inter-provincial trade will be subject to mandatory CFIA registration/licensing. Do you know how to go about this process? If not, you should take a look
at this free QUICK GUIDE courtesy of afisservices.com.
It outlines 15 steps towards CFIA registration.
