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Meredith Melendez – Rutgers Plant & Pest Advisory – June 13, 2026
A robust annual worker training is a requirement of both the FSMA Produce Safety Rule and a buyer required third-party audit. Are your produce workers trained? Do you feel good about the training they receive? Develop, review, or improve your produce worker food safety training by using our
Developing Your On-Farm Food Safety Worker Training Program decision tool. With this tool you can: consider risks involved with where employees work, the tasks they are conducting, what food safety risks they should know based on these activities, what you are already doing to train these workers, and learn more about additional resources available online that you can share in-person or via text to enhance their understanding of food safety risk reduction. Don’t forget to keep track of who, how, and when they were trained as proof during your inspection or audit. Use our employee training log template digitally or in paper format as part of your food safety record keeping.
Go to on onfarmfoodsafety.rutgers.edu for the tools.