Prepare Your Team
Gamification: Food Safety Concepts Outside of Formal Learning Programs
To promote a strong, positive food safety culture throughout your organization, all employees—from frontline to senior leaders—must be motivated, educated, and engaged. One way to keep your team engaged is to creatively and continually reinforce food safety concepts outside of formal learning programs.
Consider “gamification” when planning your engagement strategy. Gamification is the application of gameplay mechanics to other activities such as education or marketing. While gamification may conjure images of video games, you can also incorporate basic gameplay principles to complement and enhance your learning programs. Games can help refresh content, incentivize learning, socialize desired behaviors, and intermix learning opportunities into non-training environments like Town Hall meetings or breakrooms.
In this section of the Toolkit, you will find several examples of low- or no-cost games employed by members of the Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness. These games are not to meant to replace your current training and education programs but can serve as inspiration or be adapted to supplement to your existing formal learning curriculum.
Food Safety Games
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