Getting Results Ultimately, employees are integral to the process. Since they're responsible for making sure everything passes muster of self-inspections as well as official health department inspections, it pays to get them involved in a variety of ways. It does no good to have a self-inspection form that sits in a drawer. Employees should be trained both in food safety techniques and receiving, storing, time and temperature control, food handling and personal hygiene and how to inspect their areas of responsibility. In turn, he has taught food safety techniques to more than 200 employees.
Employees also can provide valuable feedback.
The dinner crew also can give feedback to the lunch crew, and vice versa, creating more of a sense of teamwork. People would rather work with clean, well-maintained equipment in a pleasant workspace. They can't help but raise awareness of food safety issues among employees and managers. At Dingbats, health code violations decreased immediately after implementing the self-inspection system, according to Taylor.