Ohio State University Adopts Safe Food Solutions’ Online Food Safety Training

Nov. 26, 2012 - PRLog -- Safe Food Solutions, a leading provider of online food safety training for the hospitality and foodservice industries, is pleased to announce that The Ohio State University has selected Safe Food Solutions’ Basic Food Safety eStart™ and accompanying Enterprise-class Learning Management System for use by its Dining Services division. Through the partnership, Ohio State University will use Safe Food Solutions’ technology-based training, ready-to-deploy delivery model and custom training portal to execute comprehensive core food safety training and testing to all of its foodhanding students and employees.

Ohio State University operates over 20 locations on campus, with a variety of service-styles, locations, hours, and cuisines to serve its student and faculty community. With implementation of the Basic Food Safety eStart™ course and streamlined delivery system, Safe Food Solutions offers Ohio State University improved operational effectiveness, better efficiency in training and a cost savings.

According to Zia Ahmed, Dining Services Director for OSU, “Training a large group of student employees in a physical environment can be a challenge. We feel that the online system will streamline the process. Our hope is to significantly reduce the time it takes from when a student employee starts working to the time they complete the training.”  Eric Webster, Managing Director of Safe Food Solutions added, “We are pleased to add The Ohio State University to our distinguished and growing list of campus foodservice clients. Safe Food Solutions prides itself on its distinct ability to streamline food safety education and increase efficiency.  That’s what our campus foodservice offering is all about.”

About Ohio State University

The Ohio State University’s main Columbus campus is one of America’s largest and most comprehensive. More than 55,000 students select from 14 colleges, 175 undergraduate majors, and 240 masters, doctoral, and professional degree programs. As Ohio’s best and one of the nation’s top-20 public universities, Ohio State is further recognized by a top-rated academic medical center and a premier cancer hospital and research center.


About Safe Food Solutions

Safe Food Solutions offers an innovative approach to food safety training- making it interesting, interactive, efficient and flexible. Safe Food Solutions’ training programs have educated over 500,000 foodservice and hospitality employees in the U.S., who have collectively logged over 1.3 million hours of training time. Basic Food Safety eStart™ covers all of the fundamental areas of safe food handling and preparation practices for all foodhandlers in the foodservice and hospitality industry.