Nutr Res Pract.  2010 Feb;4(1):58-68.

Evaluation of the food safety training for food handlers in restaurant operations

• Park SH
• Kwak TK
• Chang HJ

Abstract

This study examined the extent of improvement of food safety knowledge and practices of employee through food safety training. Employee knowledge and practice for food safety were evaluated before and after the food safety training program. The training program and questionnaires for evaluating employee knowledge and practices concerning food safety, and a checklist for determining food safety performance of restaurants were developed. Data were analyzed using the SPSS program. Twelve restaurants participated in this study. We split them into two groups: the intervention group with training, and the control group without food safety training. Employee knowledge of the intervention group also showed a significant improvement in their score, increasing from 49.3 before the training to 66.6 after training. But in terms of employee practices and the sanitation performance, there were no significant increases after the training. From these results, we recommended that the more job-specific and hand-on training materials for restaurant employees should be developed and more continuous implementation of the food safety training and integration of employee appraisal program with the outcome of safety training were needed.

Keyword

Restaurants; effectiveness of the food safety training; hygiene knowledge; hygiene practice; on-site safety inspection

MeSH Terms

Checklist
Food Safety
Surveys and Questionnaires
Restaurants
Sanitation

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  Fig. 1 Procedures of the study

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