Articles Tagged with ''professional development''

Taking place online in February 2025 and hosted by Germany’s Food Safety Authority, the annual International Training for Safer Food is a training program on food safety risk management, intended for public health authority staff members in non-EU countries who handle issues related to food safety.

 Penn State Extension is offering a new online course to teach participants about the key elements and impact of food packaging. A continuing education unit is available upon completion of the course. 

The Institute of Food Technologists’ (IFT’s) new Fundamentals of Food Science Course is designed to help the busy professional identify and apply scientific concepts to solve real-world food safety and quality problems, as well as to understand the food regulatory landscape.

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has endorsed the Chartered Trading Standards Institute’s (CTSI’s) Professional Competency in Feed qualification route.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) e-Learning Academy now offers free, certified online learning courses on topics related to Codex Alimentarius in English, French, and Spanish.

Catalyst LLC is launching a new suite of online courses designed to close skill gaps and enhance emotional intelligence in the workplace. Registration is open.

Catalyst LLC's 2024 Technical Leader Bootcamp spring cohort kicks off on February 6. The 14-week program is tailored for technical food industry professionals, providing a comprehensive curriculum, coaching, and a community to guide technical experts on the path to success.

The Alliance for Advanced Sanitation is hosting monthly Sanitation Development Group meetings for sanitation professionals to learn, share information, and teach each other, featuring different speakers and topics each month.

Hydrite is offering in-person and virtual training and educational programs throughout 2024 to help increase companies’ knowledge and understanding of food safety.

This article takes a look at how whole-being competencies support technical leaders to shift culture through daily interactions and behaviors. As we head into 2024, it is time to move from checking boxes to doing the work of creating and implementing a solid food safety culture improvement plan. Organizations are taking this opportunity to map out how to improve food safety culture in the next year—and, hopefully, over the next several years, as culture shifts are known to take several years to see the impact.