Food Safety Publications

Food Safety in the Workplace

Poor food handling practices at work can cause foodborne illness. Information and education is key to improving food practices from farm to table.

The following materials are available in multiple languages. Teaching Tips provide trainers with tools for quick, easy, interactive educational sessions.

• Control Time & Temperature – poster
  (pdf available in: English, Bosnian, Chinese, Greek, Haitian, Italian, Khmer, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese)
  
• Control Time & Temperature – teaching tips
  (pdf available in: English)
  
• How to Sanitize by Hand with Chemical Sanitizers – poster
  (pdf available in: English, Bosnian, Greek, Haitian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese)
  
• How to Sanitize by Hand with Chemical Sanitizers – teaching tips
  (pdf available in: English only)
  
• Keep Pests Out of Your Kitchen – poster
  (pdf available in: English, Bosnian, Chinese, Greek, Haitian, Italian, Khmer, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese)
  
• Keeping Pests Out - teaching tips
  (pdf available in: English)
  
• Employess Must Wash Hands - poster
  (pdf available in: English, Bosnian, Chinese, Greek, Haitian, Italian, Khmer, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese)
  
• Wash Hands – teaching tips
  (pdf available in: English)
  
• Food Safety for Food Workers – guide
  This four-page pamphlet highlights basic food safety concepts of good personal health and hygiene, time/temperature control, cleaning and sanitizing, and preventing contamination. Potential physical, chemical and microbiological hazards are identified.
  (pdf available in: English, Bosnian, Chinese, Greek, Haitian, Italian, Khmer, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese)
  
• Food Safety for Food Workers – teaching tips
  Accompanying posters and teaching tips (8.5” X11”) reinforce the food safety concepts and are also available in multiple languages.
• Employee Reporting form
  (pdf available in: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Haitian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese)
• Safe Handling of Shellfish at Retail - fact sheet
  (pdf available in: English)
• Food Equipment and Safety Training (FEAST)
  Massachusetts Food Equipment and Safety Training (FEAST) is a collaborative project between the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to help school food service program personnel in improve child nutrition programs through food and equipment safety education.