Training and Education

Everybody involved in the food chain needs both education and training to be competent to fulfill the assigned tasks, but there is more. All staff should be well motivated, but without sufficient time, an adequate infrastructure, clear procedures and instructions, feasible policies and directives, consistency between responsibilities and authority and adequate resources, product safety will still be at risk, in particular because lacking these requirements will lead to conflicts and potentially to wrong decisions. This chapter discusses the relation between the many factors that play an essential role in food safety management, of which proper training and education, of course, are primary requirements.