Food Safety

As part of our overall safety compliance program we are looking over the next few months at food safety.

Food is a big part of what we do at Marion Salvation Army. We have morning teas, community meals, BBQ's, cake stalls, fundraisers, Community Support Services food parcels, bread runs, playgroups, kidzone, Habit@, and companion clubs that all use food as part of their program.

Both our centres are required to meet Australian food safety standards and also comply with the council regulations issued from time to time by Holdfast Bay and Marion City Councils.

To this end we need to improve a lot of our food safety operations. In the new year we will be offering training days for many of our teams. Part of these training days will be food safety training. It is important that anyone that is involved in any sort of food handling - whether it is as simple as pakcing bread in a fridge or as complex as feeding 150 souls at Pioneer Companion Club - gets to one of the training sessions. The dates are:

Saturday 22/1/11 - this is best for playgroups, children's ministries and youth ministries
Sunday 23/1/11 - this will be best for the morning tea people, companion clubs etc
Wednesday 2/2/11 - this will be best for CSS and for people that do BBQ's etc

While I've included as a guide which group would be best suited to which training, it is just important that everyone involved in food handling gets to one of the three sessions available. Times will be advised in the new year. Thanks for your cooperation.