Crest Ink - Volume 29 - Number 01

Employee Birthdays

March

Day

ANDREA HASSLER JUAN FERNANDEZ

25 26 26 27 27 28 28 28

LOGAN SUTTON MELISSA URENA MIKAYLA COX VALERIE SMITH KYLE LAWRENCE CODY POSSEHL NICOLE WILSON

28 28 29 30 31 31 31

PENNY ELLIS JORGE RAMIREZ VIRGINIA SANCHEZ DEVIN LEDFORD DELYLA WILTZ PAMELA KELLEY JONATHAN BAKENER

20 20 22 23 23 24 25

CHRISTIN LINDENMEYER BARTLOMIEJ BARDZINSKI MARDELLE KENNAY

EDWARD BAYLOR DAVID BUSHMAN DOUGLAS DAVIS

Wedding Anniversaries

January

Day Years

Pam & Russell Kelley

14

42 31 44

Joe & Jenny Loomis Scott & Jan Storey Dan & Josie Yates Sherry & Todd Joos

4

26 41 14 23

Gerald & Stephanie Gibson 15

10 11 19

Paul & Deb Harmon

24

March

Day Years

Tom & Lou Ann Balch Tom & Betty Saunders Max & Patty Ballard Sue & Jeff Larson

12 18 24 26

23 29 10 29

February

Day Years

Steve & Mary Meiners Teri & Jim Wolber

10 13

39 35

Training Initiative by Jeff Friday As we head into 2017, we will begin the year with Food Safety Training on January 10th through 12th and OSHA Training on January 18th & 19th. As many of you are aware, one significant change, driven by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), is that documented training is now mandated by federal law. While training is by no means new at Crest Foods, FSMA has encouraged us to reevaluate our Training Program and to make it even stron- ger. The presentation of our annual Food Safety Training allows us to remind employees of important programs and to introduce new and renewed topics. While not driven by FSMA, OSHA Training offers a platform to annu- ally reemphasize safe personnel practices. Also in the month of January, we will be launching a renewed chemical control initiative which will be driven by an associated training module. As mentioned in a prior article, we have built more intentionality into our Food Safety Management System. Within the Packaging Division, ten specific programs have been identified to support that system with over thirty training modules developed to make sure employees have a more thorough understanding of those ten programs. Our goal is to have 100% training compliance by February 1st, then perpetually maintain compliance as new employees are hired or employees move into different job responsibilities. Employees will then be refreshed with required training each year thereafter. Additionally, with our Ingredient Division on a similar path, the result will not only facilitate FSMA compliance, but will create a more robust system to meet SQF certi- fication requirements, customer requirements and of course to provide safe, quality food for the consuming public.

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