Return to Toolbox Main.

Emergency Handbook for Food Managers

Keywords / Description:

This manual provides food managers at food service establishments with a quick-reference handbook that is easy to use for emergency preparedness and response. The handbook presents what to do first, who to call and steps to keep people and food safe in emergencies from flooding and power outage to chemical contamination and tampering. It gives tips in the event of a longer-term emergency and steps for recovery after an emergency. Additionally, this kit includes Emergency Readiness For Food Workers, a set of photo lessons (in English and in Spanish) with a companion discussion guide for food managers covering each lesson on emergency topics geared for food workers. The handbook and lesson set offers practical, relatively simple and low-cost steps that can be taken to tighten food security, keep food safe and reduce the negative impacts of a variety of emergencies.

Toolkit:

Food Safety Toolkit

Keyword Area:

Epidemiology, Health Promotion and Health Education, Infectious Diseases, Surveillance

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

Twin Cities Metro Advanced Practice Center

Submitted:

08/10/2006

Modified:

02/15/2013

The NACCHO Toolbox is a repository of available resources to help local public health practitioners. Tools are produced by local, state, and federal agencies, as well as academic institutions and other stakeholders. The contents of this Toolbox are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect any official recommendations of NACCHO. NACCHO makes no express or implied warranty with respect to the contents and disclaims liability for any damages arising from or connected to the use of the material in this Toolbox.

Five most recent user comments

Can't order
By Betty King
I wanted to do an evaluatio of this tool.  However I cannot open it on line and I cannot order hard copy because I got this message "Cannot ad to cart because it does not have a price"