Wendy White
Wendy White

Train Smarter, Not Harder: Utilizing Effective Training to Empower Employees

By Wendy Wade White
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For too long, annual food safety training has become an exercise in futility as you slowly PowerPoint your employees to sleep. The “retrain” corrective action has become the first solution for nonconformances, but it’s often a temporary fix. Train smarter, not harder by implementing the five cornerstones of teaching: legitimacy, authenticity, engagement, empowerment, and simplicity.

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Steve Knuth
Steve Knuth
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The Role of Temperature Monitoring and Reporting Technology in Food Safety

By Steve Knuth
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The No.1 priority for food manufacturers is ensuring their products reach customers in a healthy and safely consumable state. One of the key factors in ensuring safety is maintaining proper temperature in storage and transportation. Connected data loggers are cost-effective technology options that can save thousands of dollars and hours of hassle by alerting users to temperature issues before the only safe course of action becomes product disposal.

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