What's Wrong With This Picture (Team Training Exercise)

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What’s wrong with this picture? Image: Freepik

Training Activity

Suitable for:

• Front-line workers in food service and food handling operations.

• Food safety team members.

• Food safety learners.

Outcomes:

• Get team members thinking about food safety.

• Team members engage in an informal risk assessment process.

• Team members learn about the principles of hygienic design, colour coding and hand hygiene.

Procedure:

Show the image of a person slicing bacon (above) to the team.

Ask team members to identify as many food safety problems, errors or potential audit non-conformities as they can. Provide context, for example, “This operation is occurring in a supermarket/grocery store deli area”.

The exercise can be written or verbal, and be used as a competition or just for discussion.

After team members have viewed the photograph and submitted answers, the trainer or team leader leads a discussion on each identified non-conformity and facilitates an informal risk assessment for items which are not black and wh…