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<p>Food health safety has always been an important element for consumers. Enterprises in the food sector want to meet customer expectations and the requirements set out in national and international legislation and implement a variety of tools, methods, or techniques in their organizations. Increasing health safety and even improving the quality of produced food is possible through properly planned training of employees. This training should be tailored to the capabilities and needs of both employees and the enterprise. Nowadays, with the era of the COVID -19 pandemic, training in food safety becomes of particular importance, as the production of safe food is a basic objective to be taken into account by all employees. Under these circumstances, it seems appropriate to carry out additional training in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 in the context of the health safety of the produced food. The aim of the present paper is to examine the subjective assessment of food employees regarding the amount and quality of food safety training in the COVID-19 pandemic. The research is a pilot study conducted at the turn of December 2020.</p>
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Food health safety has always been an important element for consumers. Enterprises in the food sector want to meet customer expectations and the requirements set out in national and international legislation and implement a variety of tools, methods, or techniques in their organizations. Increasing health safety and even improving the quality of produced food is possible through properly planned training of employees. This training should be tailored to the capabilities and needs of both employees and the enterprise. Nowadays, with the era of the COVID -19 pandemic, training in food safety becomes of particular importance, as the production of safe food is a basic objective to be taken into account by all employees. Under these circumstances, it seems appropriate to carry out additional training in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 in the context of the health safety of the produced food. The aim of the present paper is to examine the subjective assessment of food employees regarding the amount and quality of food safety training in the COVID-19 pandemic. The research is a pilot study conducted at the turn of December 2020.

Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Food Safety Training of Food Sector Employees? Case Study

Medical University of Silesia/Czestochowa University of Technology

System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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Food health safety has always been an important element for consumers. Enterprises in the food sector want to meet customer expectations and the requirements...

Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Food Safety Training of Food Sector Employees? Case Study

Published Online: Jun 20, 2021

Page range: 201 - 213

Received: Dec 06, 2020

Accepted: Mar 30, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/czoto-2021-0021

Keywords
food safety, training, COVID-19

© 2021 Szymon T. Dziuba et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Food Safety Training of Food Sector Employees? Case Study

Published Online: Jun 20, 2021

Page range: 201 - 213

Received: Dec 06, 2020

Accepted: Mar 30, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/czoto-2021-0021

Keywordsfood safety, training, COVID-19

© 2021 Szymon T. Dziuba et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
food safety, training, COVID-19