Guidelines for trainers

The trainer, together with the organizers of the workshop, identifies fields and packaging plants, in areas were safety assurance programs are implemented for fresh fruits and vegetables.

Each team will visit production and post-harvest activities in packaging plants. Funding and logistics permitting, each team will visit different places to feed back on the final discussion of results.

Each participant will receive a guideline format, Material 4.9, to be completed after the field visits. The teams share experiences and discuss results, all resulting in a single report detailing hazards found and prioritized with recommendations on applying control methods. Each group will present its own results and in the discussions somebody responsible for implementing safety assurance programs will also participate to enrich the analysis both ways.

Expected results

Participants will develop skills to identify hazards in primary production and to implement possible preventive and control measures, applicable according to technological, economic, cultural and social aspects of production.

Required materials

• overheads and dry pens
• worksheets
• overhead projector