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MANDATORY FOOD SAFETY SUPERVISOR TRAINING Welcome to the Mandatory Food Safety Supervisor Training news page. Please keep visiting to see more news as it comes to hand
5 March 2010
Update on the Food Safety Supervisor Initiative
The NSW Food Authority is continuing to work on the Food Safety Supervisor Initiative. The latest news for the Food Authority is:
RTO Approval Policy
The Food Authority have drafted an RTO approval policy and expect to have the policy completed in early April. RTOs will then be able to apply to be an approved training organization for Food Safety Supervisor Training. When sufficient number of RTOs have been approved the 12 month period for food businesses to appoint a trained Food Safety Supervisor (FSS) will commence, it is anticipated that the 12 month period will commence in early May. Businesses will then have until May 2011 to comply with the new requirements. FSS Workshops The Authority will conduct 16 FSS Workshops across the State for council Environmental Health Officers (EHOs). The FSS Workshops will commence from 20 April 2010. The Authority will be providing council EHOs with an information package. It is anticipated that councils will use these materials in the information packages to hold information sessions for their local businesses during the 12 month lead in period. The training required for Food Safety Supervisors comprises 2 units from the Hospitality Training Package they are:
Restaurant & Catering will be conducting training that covers these units on the following dates:
If you are interested in registering for the course please contact our TRAINING department via phone 1300 722 878 to register your interest Kind Regards, The TRAINING DEPARTMENT
17 April 2009
Industry News: Mandatory Food Safety Supervisor Training
Dear Member Recently, the association has been attending meetings with the Food Authority NSW to discuss the State Government’s position on Food Safety and the establishment of a mandatory Food Safety Supervisor to be trained and present whenever food is being served. Restaurant & Catering NSW is participating in these meetings on behalf of our members who over time have expressed a vital interest in this matter. Other interested parties who attend each meeting of the Hospitality Sector Co-Regulatory Working Group Meeting are Clubs NSW, AHA, Australian Retailers Association, Hotel Motel Association, and Baking Industry Association along with the a representative of the Minister for Primary Industry. The purpose is to create a group with vested interests in Food Safety who represent the industries with significant concern to jointly try to resolve the issue so that there is a benefit to the industry while achieving the objectives of the government. To date there have been 4 meetings of the working group who are resolved to establish a training regime that is effective and fiscally possible considering the current economic situation.
Recently, Queensland enacted
legislation that has established the Food Safety Supervisor role and previously
Victoria has enacted very similar legislation. The Minister for Primary
Industries, the Hon Ian Macdonald has announced that Mandatory Safe Food
Supervisors will come into effect in early 2010. All qualified chefs will have
completed in their training 2 units of competency which gives them the necessary
qualification to be a Food Safety Supervisor. The two proposed units are: One component of the program is the establishment of a ‘refresher’ training package either every 3 or 5 years. This detail has not been finalized as well as other regulations. Further, there are businesses that operate over 7 days per week for more than 12 hours per day who would be required to have more than a single person trained as a Food Safety Supervisor. To over come this financial hurdle it has been suggested but not finalized that there will be a senior Food Safety Supervisor who has overall responsibility and is the nominated person the local council will contact when inspecting a premise. To assist the NSW Food Authority launch the training program, Restaurant & Catering NSW will be conducting a project where 2 groups of 17 will undergo Food Safety Supervisor training and we will do post training research into the effectiveness of the training and to determine its effectiveness of the training in Clubs, Hotels, Motels, Retail and Restaurants. Included in the training will be 2 Environmental Health Officers (EHO) representing those who ultimately will be inspecting the food service outlet and checking on the Food Safety Supervisors capacity to deliver the outcome of the training. In the interim, we strongly suggest that you patiently wait for a final announcement containing greater detail on the final structure of the program which has not been completed nor has the industry stakeholders who are fundamentally critical to the success of the program been researched. You have our commitment to follow this pathway to developing the Food Safety Supervisor program to its conclusion. We are aware of recent announcements by other training organizations. However, I can assure you that the Working Group, R & C NSW and any of the industry stakeholders have not reached any final conclusions at the time this has been written. Kind regards
Robert Goldman |