Empower Employees Through Training Help reinforce good food safety practices in your establishment through stand-up meetings. Use this training outline as a guide for your next meeting. Cooling food safely prevents dangerous bacterial growth in food. Learning Objectives You may choose to read these learning objectives with your employees as a part of the stand-up […]
February Cartoon: 3 Food Safety Tips That Could Save Your Business
In 2017, a foodborne illness outbreak in California sent 10 people to the hospital with botulism poisoning. Botulism is a potentially deadly foodborne illness caused by toxins from clostridium botulinum, a bacteria that thrives in environments with low oxygen. The outbreak was traced back to a nacho cheese dispenser in a gas station. It resulted […]
ASL Food Handler Course Helps Deaf and Hard of Hearing People Get Their Food Handler Card
Typically, if you are deaf or hard of hearing and want to get your food handlers card online, you have one option: turning on the subtitles. But for StateFoodSafety, subtitles weren’t good enough. In 2012, we decided we could do more to make working in the foodservice industry easier for people in the deaf community. […]
Ask a Food Safety Scientist: What is Clostridium botulinum?
Have you heard of this intimidating bacteria? Most people have heard of the disease it can cause—botulism. Clostridium botulinum is an anaerobic bacteria, meaning that it thrives best in an oxygen-deprived environment. In addition to this, the bacteria can produce spores, which can survive until the conditions are ideal for bacterial growth. The bacteria produce […]
Tutorial: How to Run a Corporate Purchase Report
When you partner with StateFoodSafety, you gain access to our free online reporting tool to help you manage your employees’ training! Reports allow you to access information about employee training instantly, from anywhere. The Corporate Purchase Report is the most comprehensive report type. It will have information about all courses purchased through your company, including […]
Stand-Up Training: Cleaning and Sanitizing
Empower Employees Through Training Help reinforce good food safety practices in your establishment through stand-up meetings. Use this training outline as a guide for your next meeting. Cleaning and sanitizing a surface removes food particles, filth, and bacteria. Together, cleaning and sanitizing help prevent the spread of foodborne illness. Learning Objectives You may choose to […]
January Cartoon: How to Ace Your Health Inspections
If you work in a restaurant or food facility, chances are good you’ve been a part of an inspection done by a local health inspector. Health inspectors are there to make sure food workers are following food safety regulations and guidelines. Although inspections may seem inconvenient, they are crucial, and may even save your business. […]
Make Compliance Easier—Use Our Free Reporting Tool
Keeping track of food safety compliance is one of the most difficult tasks in our industry. It can be a constant headache to make sure all of your employees have current food safety training and certification. One of our best headache-saving features that we offer to our clients is the free reporting tool! You can […]
December Cartoon: 4 Keys to Dealing with Food Allergies
How to Protect Your Food Allergic Customers Researchers believe up to 15 million Americans have a food allergy, including 5.9 million children—and they’re becoming more common. For people with allergies, foods that would normally be considered safe can have dangerous consequences. An allergic reaction to food can range from simply feeling itchy to anaphylaxis, which […]
5 Common Foodborne Illness Questions
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 48 million people get sick each year from foodborne illnesses. When you become sick from a foodborne illness, you may not be sure what you should do. We’ve answered some of the most common questions about foodborne illness to help you know how to handle it when it […]