Is your Workforce Truly Competent in Food Safety?
Move beyond training records to measure the knowledge, judgement and confidence your people need to make safe decisions every day.
With MyKnow 365, organisations can identify competency gaps, target learning where it's needed most and demonstrate food safety compliance through a fully auditable competency management framework.
"Cognisco gives us actionable information on capability and confidence, so we really understand our risks and strengths."
Food safety
Food Safety isn't just about Training, it's about Consistent Decision Making
Every food manufacturer invests in food safety training. But training completion alone doesn't guarantee that employees will consistently make the right decisions when it matters.
Operational pressures, changing regulations, staff turnover and multiple production sites all increase the risk of inconsistent behaviours that can lead to product recalls, compliance failures and reputational damage.
The challenge isn't simply ensuring people have been trained, it's understanding whether they can confidently apply that knowledge in real working environments.
Are you Confident your Workforce can consistently apply Food Safety procedures?
- Can you quickly demonstrate to auditors and regulators that your workforce is competent, not simply trained?
- How easily could you identify employees who require additional support before small mistakes become significant operational risks?
- Can you evidence that your food safety procedures are being understood, applied consistently and followed across every site?
- How confident are you that your teams are making the right operational decisions under pressure?
Food safety topics
Assessment library
We have a wide range of topics covered in our ready to use assessment library. All assessments can be customised plus new topic content can be co-authored by our in house Food Safety Author and the customer's subject matter experts, to deliver laser-focused, insightful assessments.
Hidden Risk often goes unnoticed
Our benchmarking consistently shows that more than 30% of a workforce may misunderstand procedures whilst remaining completely confident they are acting correctly.
These individuals often represent the greatest operational risk because traditional assessments rarely identify misplaced confidence. By measuring knowledge, understanding and confidence together, organisations can target interventions before incidents occur.
"Our benchmarking consistently shows that more than 30% of a workforce may misunderstand procedures whilst remaining completely confident they are acting correctly"
Competency Management with MyKnow 365
MyKnow 365 provides a complete competency management framework that enables organisations to:
- Measure workforce capability and confidence
- Identify knowledge gaps and behavioural risks
- Target learning where it's genuinely needed
- Monitor competency over time
- Maintain a complete audit trail
- Demonstrate due diligence during inspections
- Improve operational consistency across multiple sites
Rather than relying solely on training records, MyKnow 365 provides meaningful evidence that employees can safely apply procedures in real workplace situations.
What this gives you
Understand your workforce
Reduce operational risk
Demonstrate compliance
Case study
Proven in one of the UK's largest Food Safety programmes
Ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games, Cognisco partnered with the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) to develop a bespoke behavioural assessment for food business operators.
The assessment measured knowledge, understanding, confidence and attitudes towards key food hygiene principles, enabling targeted behavioural coaching and training where it was needed most. This helped improve food safety practices across participating food businesses and contributed to the programme winning the SOFHT Best New Product Award 2012.
Working with Enterprise Organisations
25 Years of Evidencing Competence & Risk
Cognisco are global leaders in business-critical competency management with 25 years of experience working with organisations to articulate what every employee needs to know, do and understand, in order to do their job competently and confidently and to mitigate risk.
Since 1998 Cognisco has worked with some of the worldʼs largest and complex organisations including BP, His Majestyʼs Civil Service, John Lewis, the NHS, Network Rail and Eurostar.
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We are confident that utilising our assessment and the MyKnow 365 platform will transform the way your organisation manages workforce competency to ensure food allergen safety.
Tell us about your current challenges so we can help you to minimise risk and be ready.