Food Safety: September is National Food Safety Education Month

National Food Safety Education Month (NFSEM) was created by the National Restaurant Association in 1994. The purpose is to increase awareness about the importance of food safety education and training. A new theme is created each year. This year’s theme is “High-Risk Customers: Serve Your Fare with Extra Care.” Learning activities and posters are available free from the website, www.servsafe.com/nfsem.

The materials quickly communicate key concepts to employees. Since food safety is food safety, these would also make good in-service materials for healthcare food service workers. Also available on the website are the archived training materials from past years.

This month the blog topic is food safety. Please add your comments on what you have done in training your employees to prepare safe food!