AIFST is proud to partner with Cultivate SA to share this opportunity:
Cultivate Connections Workshop
In the rapidly evolving food industry, developing a mature food safety culture with an organisational approach to food safety risk management is not just a regulatory requirement, but a competitive advantage and a cornerstone of consumer trust. We face complex and unpredictable challenges, from shifting compliance requirements and supply chain disruptions to geopolitical threats and rising sustainable development trends.
The Cultivate Connections Workshop is designed to support participants to evolve their organisation’s food safety culture and tackle common challenges through cultural interventions. The workshop will bring together like-minded industry peers and expert facilitators with experience and insights to help work through practical scenarios. Attendees will gain fresh perspectives, discuss effective tools, and learn how to drive sustained meaningful change within their organisations.
Learning objectives for participants include:
- Identify and measure cultural attributes that impact food safety performance and speak to industry colleagues about their food safety wins and challenges.
- Discuss and apply effective cultural interventions to solve real food safety problems, including using leading indicators for continuous improvement, integrating food safety with people safety, and managing emerging risks.
- Apply learnings from the workshop and others to formulate an effective food safety culture change plan to advance your organisation’s maturity.
Who should participate?
This event is open to food safety practitioners from the agri-food industry, including manufacturing, processing and primary production, who aim to improve their food safety performance. Diversity across sectors is encouraged to allow for free discussion, mutual learning and thought leadership without fear of competition.
The workshop content is designed for senior executives (e.g. COOs, General Managers of Food Safety, Quality and Operations) and their mid-level associates responsible for food safety, quality, regulatory compliance and culture.
Facilitators
Your main facilitators for the workshop will be Dr Lone Jespersen, Principal, Cultivate SA and Dr Andrew Wilson, Core Team Member, Cultivate SA. We will also be joined by Ms Rachel Downey, Head of Food Safety and Quality, Bulla Dairy Foods, to discuss their experiences in evolving food safety culture to drive business performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can you expect to walk away with?
Participants can expect to leave with some fresh ideas and perspectives industry sectors that they would not normally interact with, along with some novel tools to help drive forward their own organizational food safety culture journey. By sharing experiences and collective wisdom around what has/has not been successful in strengthening food safety performance, participants will have an opportunity to return to their own organizations with renewed insights and look to review and improve their own culture action plans.
Food safety is a sensitive topic for our organization. How will we share our stories without putting our company at risk?
The workshop is designed to be held in a non-competitive manner, approaching food safety from a practical perspective on tools toinfluencing human behaviour through culture, rather than focusing on detailed technical aspects of production. Participants will be reminded of their obligations regarding attendance and facilitators will be managing discussions to ensure that the integrity of these ismaintained.
What should you prepare?
To get the most benefit from this workshop, participants should dedicate some time to considering their own internal experience around food safety culture and risk management initiatives. Some guiding questions for this might be:
