Improving Food Safety Training with Digital Forms

Take the hassle out of food safety training with modern tools

Improving the safety training for your kitchen staff is always on the mind of restauranteurs and food processors alike, but during Food Safety Education Month, it’s a great time to review how you’re training your team. If prioritizing a food safety culture within your business is already a priority, innovative tools like digital forms can help you bring new and more efficient training to your team. Here are three of the ways that digital forms can help streamline and expand your training processes.

Standardization and Consistency

Nothing can help streamline your food safety training the way that digital forms can. Aside from helping to streamline all facets of your food processing business, digital forms give you the ability to standardize your training and assessments. With new employees onboarding with different trainers, for different departments, or even working unique shift schedules, having a cohesive and identical training process can support the success of every new team member.

For those working to train their kitchen staff, digital training gives the ability to keep consistent training across your front-of-house and back-of-house staff, meaning you can be sure everyone handling food and orders has the same level of food safety training. It can also support more streamlined assessments and equally consistent evaluations when it comes time to promote shift leaders and managers, or even start cross-training some of your staff. With digital forms as a part of your food safety training, you can reduce the risk of missed or inconsistent training topics, encouraging a higher level of food safety knowledge across your entire team.

Real-Time Tracking and Reporting

All the food safety training in the world won’t help your team if they aren’t learning the material, and with previous training videos or workbooks, keeping track of your employees’ progress was time-consuming and inaccurate. Digital forms give you the ability to remotely track your team’s progress and pull data and reports on completion rates, areas of improvement, and comprehension. 

Best-in-class digital forms offer platforms that can easily integrate with spreadsheet tracking, Cloud storage solutions, and even Learning Management Systems (LMS) or training systems. This gives even larger teams with multiple locations insight into real-time tracking of training progress and performance. Managers can monitor which staff members have completed training modules and quickly identify areas where additional support may be needed. With the ability to choose between native reporting and exported raw data, you can ensure detailed records of all completed trainings for any audits or requirements, especially important for serving and bar staff.

Interactive Learning

Long gone is the era of poorly made, unrelatable, or archaic training videos. Digital forms give you the ability to include multimedia elements within your food safety training. Whether this is incorporating image fields for real-world examples from your own business or implementing legally binding electronic signatures, digital forms give new levels of interactivity to your training processes. 

With more engaging, and directly applicable, trainings you can ensure your staff stays engaged in the trainings, and even capture details on their comprehension and ability to implement details from the training. With a more dynamic learning experience, you can make your training more interesting and effective. This can also help simulate better real-world scenarios, helping your staff better understand and apply food safety principles.

When it comes to food and beverage management, making your food safety training easy to complete and understand is one of your highest priorities, as it keeps your team and your customers and consumers safe. Try improving your team’s safety training experience with digital forms and see how much easier it is to train, track, and report about your food safety processes.

About GoFormz

GoFormz is a digital forms solution that helps bring your data into a single, actionable place. We believe that everyone should be able to fill out their forms online and deliver products and services that redefine how people and businesses collect and process information. Whether you’re running multiple franchise locations, a food processing facility, or a specialty restaurant, GoFormz can help you streamline your food safety training processes. Complete with multiple native integrations, built-in electronic signature capture, and the ability to digitize your exact paper forms, you can rest assured your data is captured quickly and securely, and always available when you need it.