Safe Food Solutions Enters the Food Manufacturing and Processing Training Market

BALTIMORE - Aug. 9, 2013 - PRLog -- Safe Food Solutions, a leading provider of online food safety training and LMS services for foodservice, hospitality, campus foodservice and institutional feeders, announced the release of its new online training course in food safety and good manufacturing practices for the commercial manufacturing industry, GMP eStart™.  The comprehensive program, designed specifically for manufacturers and processors of food products, covers food safety and sanitary practices relative to the processing workplace and is for companies seeking to comply with FSMA and GFSI requirements. GMP eStart™ examines the scientific principles behind food safety and sanitation practices while providing practical and effective methods that can be implemented on a facility’s front line to ensure safe production and distribution. The course’s accompanying Learning Management System tracks and stores evidence of compliance, networks employee completion information by location and position and allows for easy analysis of all company training data. 

“Over the years, we have repeatedly received inquiries to produce a manufacturing product,” said Eric Webster, Safe Food Solutions’ Managing Director.  “Once we took a look at the solutions that were out there, we realized the manufacturing sector was choosing between courses that were either expensive one-time, instructor-led offerings or overpriced online programs with limited interactivity.  More importantly, the existing products provide limited opportunities for companies to track and network their training data.  It was an opening for our team to provide services at a quality level and price point that simply does not currently exist in the marketplace.”

GMP eStart™ is a student-paced, interactive tutorial, highlighting real-life scenarios and recent foodborne illness events to create an engaging and entertaining focus on food safety principles and methods of incident prevention.  The online delivery and accompanying Learning Management System provide companies with flexibility for training deployment and robust capabilities for tracking, networking, storing and analyzing all company training information.  The low per student cost allows for full companywide training implementation at a typical savings of 50% over competitive products. 

GMP eStart™ is a 4-5 hour course that incorporates video sequences, Flash animation, interactive activities, full audio narration and remediation questions throughout.  The program culminates with a 30-question, graded assessment, provides a Certificate of Completion and covers the following topics in detail:

·         Foodborne Illness & Microbiological Safety

·         Hygiene, Handwashing & Inspections

·         Time, Temperature, Food Flow & HACCP

·         Buildings, Facilities & Equipment

“GMP eStart™ provides clients with a practical training approach to support their food safety initiatives,” noted Webster. “Our online education offering for manufacturing and processing is dynamic, user-friendly, affordable and optimized for corporate or regulatory compliance- and can ideally help our clients run a safer and more productive operation.”