Food Standards Agency - Safer Food Better Business

What the law says

The principles of the Safer Food Better Business legislation came into force on Jan 1st 2006 and help small food businesses to:

• Comply with the new food regulations
• Make food safely
• Demonstrate how the food is made safely
• Improve the business e.g. by wasting less food
• Plan and organise food safety within the business.

The Shieldyourself approach

Shieldyourself have been instrumental in devising the SFBB directive and have been responsible for training Safer Food Better Business to over 1000 businesses across 14 local authorities.

The Food Standards Agency awarded funding to 14 Local Authorities in the North West to provide Safer Food Better Business training.

The SFBB is a simple, easy-to-follow toolkit for small catering businesses to demonstrate they have an effective food safety management system in place.

Shieldyourself solution

This is an outline of our project for one of the North West local authorities for which we have conducted this training on behalf of.

Case study:

Their requirements: Needed to establish SFBB rollout programme for approximately 1000 small caterers under their jurisdiction.

• Supply experienced coaching teams for group seminars and one-to-one mentoring sessions.
• Conduct course evaluations after seminars for analysis and feedback to relevant parties.
• Provide coaches for business training seminars.
• Co-ordinate with food standards Agency to provide SFBB packs.
• Manage and co-ordinate the deliver of the training across 12 Local Authorities using a bespoke extra net
• Provide all relevant bodies with 24/7 on-line reporting via a secure extranet system.
• Liaised with Environmental Health Officers throughout programme and for sign off.

Not only has the Safer Food Better Business training been extremely well received, but there are plans to rollout the training of this course to many other similar local authorities across the country once the next rounds of funding have been secured.

One of our partner Local Authorities recently made the comments below on the feedback and overall success of Safer Food Better Business initiative.

Testimonial

Divisional Environmental Health Officer - The Wirral