Improving Food Safety with Educational Videos for Food Safety Industry Training

Unfortunately, the food that is prepared on a regular basis across restaurants and for grocery stores worldwide isn’t always safe. The risk of contamination from harmful bacteria is almost always there, it’s how the food is handled, stored, and cooked that mitigates that risk. According to the CDC, foodborne illness affects 48M people each year resulting in 128K hospitalizations and 3K deaths. This is why food safety is so incredibly important and what makes educational videos for food safety industry training so valuable.

If you’re looking for ways to improve the food safety in your restaurant, grocery store, catering business or food processing facility, producing educational videos for food safety industry training could just be the answer! At Beverly Boy Productions, we specialize in producing top quality educational videos that can be used for training in virtually any industry. To learn more about how you can improve food safety in your establishment, give us a call to discuss the production of educational videos for your business.

Improving food safety with the production of educational videos for food safety industry training is certainly a growing trend. As more businesses are realizing the value of using videos to help people understand how to properly handle or cook food and mitigate risk of foodborne illness, traditional training methods are largely being replaced. 

Why Consider Video for Food Safety Training?

If you’re wondering why you should even consider video for food safety training, you’re certainly not alone. From farmers to restaurateurs, the idea of shifting from traditional training by way of slideshow presentations, handouts, and lectures is something that isn’t always immediately accepted, but it should be! Video is ideal for food safety training for a number of reasons, consider it is:

• More engaging and effective.
• Easier to digest. 
• More likely to stick with the viewer long term.
• Better for teaching complex topics.
• Ideal for a variety of settings.
• More convenient to the audience.

The use of educational videos for food safety industry training is gaining popularity, particularly for the interactive potential behind certain types of training, but faster broader acceptance would be beneficial for all involved.

Interactive Scenarios-Based Training 

One of the ways that educational videos for food safety industry training can be incredibly effective is through the use of interactive scenarios-based training for food handlers. In this type of training video, the trainee is fully immersed in an environment that is similar to their own kitchen, restaurant, or food processing area. The use of 360° video to fully immerse the individual in the environment and teach important food handling lessons can be incredibly powerful.

In this type of scenarios-based training, the trainee might be presented with a unique situation in which food temperature must be checked to determine whether or not it’s safe to cook or refrigerate, or if it must be thrown away. Another scenario might provide the learner with a situation in which they must take steps to avoid cross contamination of their kitchen to prevent foodborne illness. Scenarios like these can reinforce important lessons and concepts in a safe environment. 

Learners can navigate through various scenarios and in making their own decisions they can immediately see the outcomes whether good or bad. This is great for identifying areas in which additional training might be required in order to mitigate any potential food handling safety risks.

Save Time, Money & Food

It’s commonly understood that the use of educational videos for food safety industry training will save time and money, but how does this training save food? In video based training, food is used once to create the video and then a single video can be used to train learners over and over again. However, when food is used during real life training, it typically gets discarded after use. Thus, frequent training with food could result in substantial loss of food product compared to when video is used.

The use of training videos in the food industry will also save a lot of time and money. Employees can be trained over and over with a single video or series of videos which reduces the amount of money that may otherwise go out for in-person training. Just consider how much it costs to have a professional train your employees. Each time a new employee requires training, or an existing employee requires additional training, you must pay the trainer again and again.

With video, employees can train anytime, anywhere, and at one flat cost. The video is produced, and once that cost is incurred, there are no other costs involved for potentially several years of training. 

As you can see, improving food safety is an important task for any business that works with food. The use of educational videos for food safety industry training can have profound benefits including improved trainee understanding and knowledge of how to handle food handling scenarios, savings of time and money too. If you’re thinking about producing educational videos to train your food service industry employees, give Beverly Boy Productions a call today!