Food Manufacturing Safety Training Videos Essential to Worker Knowledge

Workers in the food manufacturing industry are prone to a number of risks including biological and chemical hazards, dangerous equipment, and the typical dangers expected of any workplace including things like slips, trips, and falls. Those outside the industry, including the customers who purchase and eat foods that are processed by major food manufacturers are prone to their own risks as well, particularly those associated with incorrect or unsafe manufacturing processes. When it comes to safety in food manufacturing, safety training videos are essential to helping workers gain the knowledge and understanding necessary for safe processing and handling of foods for their own safety as well as for the safety of others.

Food manufacturing safety training videos can be provide a number of benefits to food business workers as well as to the customers that purchase foods from grocery stores, restaurants, and related establishments. Consider all of the important benefits that come along with providing training via video.

Safety Training Videos Accessible for All Workers

Any worker that is expected to handle food or food processing equipment should be properly trained on food safety. Video makes this possible! Where providing in-person training might be challenging, particularly as new workers in the food manufacturing industry come and go, a vault of on-demand training videos makes it possible for workers to train as soon as they’re hired so that no worker is involved in food manufacturing without first receiving proper training.

Prevent Foodborne Illness & Mitigate Other Health Risks

With food manufacturing safety training videos, workers can learn about the importance of personal hygiene and proper food handling to prevent foodborne illness as well as to potentially mitigate other health risks. With more than 48M people suffering from foodborne illness each year and 3K deaths, teaching food manufacturing employees how to safely handle foods so that they don’t get sick as well as so that others who may eat the foods that they are responsible for processing don’t get sick is critical.

Proactive Reputation Management

Something like an E.coli outbreak or similar foodborne illness that is tracked back to a particular food manufacturing center, and worse tracked back to be at the fault of that center, can tarnish a reputation overnight.  There’s nothing that’s harder to come back from than the news of widespread foodborne illness outbreaks that are traced back to a particular manufacturing plant. With proper food manufacturing safety training videos, your staff will have the knowledge required to prevent many of the potentially hazardous outbreaks that could otherwise occur with an untrained staff. 

While it’s never possible to prevent all foodborne illness outbreaks, proving that you have provided proper food manufacturing training for your workers ahead of any outbreak can mitigate some of the negative marks on your reputation should an accidental outbreak occur. Video is a powerful training tool that you can make readily available to your workers at all times so as to prevent or mitigate as much risk as possible.

Immersive Training Experiences

One of the greatest advantages of producing food manufacturing safety training videos is the immersive technology that is currently available which can create unique scenarios-based training that helps your workers to fully understand the concepts that are important to safe food handling. With this type of food safety training, employees can be placed in a virtual manufacturing plant in which they can experience lifelike training scenarios that require their immediate attention. 

With immersive video training experience, employees are immediately able to interact in the environment and see what the outcomes of their actions and choices are. This type of training engages trainees with a realistic, lifelike experience that can be used to help them understand the different processes that are expected of them as well as the potential outcomes in preventing food contamination, mitigating risk, or avoiding injury or illness without training in an actual real life scenario where these risks are reality.

Resource Saving

The use of food manufacturing safety training videos will save you time, money, and resources. By making videos that you can use to train your employees on proper food handling and manufacturing practices, a single video series can be used to train employees over and over so there is no expensive training seminar or side-by-side training required. 

Videos also save food resources. Where typical training with food might require that the food be discarded after the training is complete, there is no food waste when the training is provided via video. 

The time that is saved by providing video training is also incredibly valuable. Workers can train anytime, from anywhere and since training is available 24/7, a new worker can get hired, train, and start working right away without having to wait for management to coordinate training around a busy schedule or around previously scheduled training sessions. Additionally, if a worker has a question about a process or task, they can refer back to their training videos for the answer rather than bother their management.

Certainly, the use of food manufacturing safety training videos is essential to providing workers with the knowledge required to mitigate foodborne illness risks and prevent workplace injury. To learn more about producing safety training videos for your food manufacturing business, give Beverly Boy Productions a call!