During a global pandemic, one key advantage of a proactive employee-training program is ensuring employees are trained on proper restriction and exclusion of personnel within the establishment related to employee sickness.
“If employees are trained to identify signs of sickness, this results in a safer production environment for those processing, as well as less chance of communication of these illnesses to the public,” says Abbey Davidson, food safety consultant at We R Food Safety!, in Menomonie, Wis.