Employees FIRST
Food Defense Awareness for front-line food
industry workers
Employees FIRST is an FDA initiative that food industry managers can include in their ongoing employee food defense training programs. Employees FIRST educates front-line food industry workers from farm to table about the risk of intentional food contamination and the actions they can take to identify and reduce these risks.
Follow company food defense plan and procedures.
Inspect your work area and surrounding areas.
Recognize anything out of the ordinary.
Secure all ingredients, supplies, and finished product.
Tell management if you notice anything unusual or suspicious.
Employees FIRST Tool Kit
Available in English:
Employees are the FIRST line of food defense.
Available in Spanish:
Empleados son la PRIMERA linea de defensa de los
alimentos.
The Employees FIRST tool kit includes
- an entertaining and informative animated 12-minute DVD (available for viewing online);
- a 4-color poster (available in PDF*, (2.7MB), and Spanish PDF*, (2.7MB)) that can be hung in work areas to reinforce the initiative.
Employees FIRST Learning Objectives:
- Increase food defense awareness
- Define and explain the five parts of the Employees FIRST initiative
*PDF Readers are available free from the Adobe web site.