AFDO Past Annual Trainings

Advanced Inspector Boot Camp expands on training information for inspectors including understanding food safety plans, identifying special processes, recognizing and shaping Food Safety Culture, and identifying components of a foodborne illness investigation.

This course will include interactive strategies to engage participants.  Material is repeated each year for a new audience but day three offers something new each year!

This course provides basic and fundamental learning opportunities for new food regulators who have responsibilities for conducting routine and non-routine inspections, conducting investigations, and collecting product samples for analysis by a laboratory.

This hands-on training will benefit those who have learned from ORA LearnED web-based training courses and will include live activities and exercises in a virtual setting. Topics will include a review of the basics of conducting an inspection including equipment and tools, conducting the opening, and closing interviews, observation skills, and preparing a defensible report.  A brief overview of investigations and sampling techniques is covered.

If your organization would prefer a train-the-trainer level course for this learning opportunity, please contact afdo@afdo.org. If your jurisdiction would like this delivered in person to your organization, that can also be arranged.

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Inspector Boot Camp covers both power skills and technical skills, using interactive strategies with participants. Technical skills are split into days of training specifically for retail-level inspectors (restaurants, grocery stores, etc.) and a separate day for manufactured-level inspectors (food processing facilities). The goal of this training is to provide state and local regulators access to valuable training early in their food safety careers in order to build knowledge and experience.