BRC launches food safety culture module
BRC Global Standards has announced the launch in June of a new voluntary module assessing food safety culture.
The module is being offered in partnership with Taylor Shannon International (TSI), which specialises in the fields of food safety, management, education and organisational culture.
The Food Safety Culture Module was developed in order to offer a simple, cost effective way for manufacturers to receive a food safety culture assessment at the same time as their annual audit, with this new product available to all sites choosing food safety certification with BRC Global Standards.
Culture is often considered a broad or blurry concept, but this assessment provides a way to evaluate food safety culture, identify areas for development and measure the success of changes over time as a company’s culture evolves.
It involves two questionnaires, one completed by employees and the other by the external auditor following the audit. With answers measured across four categories – people, process, purpose and proactivity – the results provide both manufacturers and specifiers with a tool to evaluate site culture, and an assessment report with clear, actionable findings.
David Brackston, BRC Global Standards technical director, says, “We are delighted to be working with TSI to offer this industry leading assessment of food safety culture. We’ve seen considerable interest in the module when presenting it to BRC Global Standards sites, conference delegates, certification bodies and auditors, and look forward to being the only GFSI benchmarked scheme to offer this tool to the food safety industry.”
