Food and Ag Processing Safety

Businesses that manufacture, process, package, or handle food must take every precaution to prevent contamination and spoilage. Proper training is essential to ensure employees understand and follow strict food safety practices and regulatory guidelines.

Safety Made Simple offers a range of online food safety training programs designed to help food industry organizations maintain safe operations and protect the integrity of their products. Our courses provide practical guidance on safe handling procedures, sanitation practices, and contamination prevention.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 48 million people in the United States become sick from foodborne illnesses each year, leading to about 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths.

By completing Safety Made Simple food safety training, your team will gain the knowledge needed to follow proper food safety practices—helping protect your employees, safeguard consumers, and reduce the risk that your operation contributes to these preventable incidents.

Our interactive food safety training resources cover essential areas that impact your business. Examples include:

Traceability and Recall: Learn about various traceability and recall systems and why they're important for ensuring food safety.

Allergen Handling: Our 20-minute allergen handling training program teaches you how to identify the nine major food allergens in the U.S. You'll also learn how to apply practices to protect people with food allergies.

Food Safety: Food Defense Awareness - Food Defense Surveillance: Use our food defense online training course to identify intentional alteration, the practice of deliberately contaminating food supplies. Learn procedures to safeguard your facility against internal and external threats.

Personal Hygiene and Employee Illness Reporting: This valuable course instructs employees on how to practice safe hygiene habits at work and at home to prevent foodborne illnesses. Workers will also learn when to report illnesses to their supervisors.

Sanitation and Pest Control: This session focuses on understanding the Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) and how to apply them in the workplace. You'll also learn how to manage pesticide use safely.

Other food safety areas our courses address include good manufacturing practices and understanding the basics of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) food safety guidelines.

• Grain Handling Safety
• General Safety
• Livestock Safety
• Agronomy Safety
• Construction Safety
• Employee Development
• DOT / Driver Safety