Risk-based Inspection Implementation

The first component of the SWUPHD Environmental Health Department (EHD) new'Risk Based Inspection Implementation Program' (RBIIP) involves a significant increase to thetraining of internal and external stakeholders - so that increased awareness, retainedknowledge, experience and active managerial control skills of participating individuals will leadto noteworthy reductions of hazards and other risk factors known to cause or contribute to food-borne illness. This training would include information about plan reviews and advanced foodpreparation techniques such as reduced oxygen packaging and sushi preparation. The second ingredient of the SWUPHD-EHD new RBIIP concerns a considerableincrease in the number of visits and time spent at food handler sites annually, in an effort tomagnify the compliance percentages across the board within the SWUPHD-EHD jurisdictionalboundaries. Accomplishing this objective will involve hiring one additional full-timeEnvironmental Health Scientist in the department to allow for additional time to be spent(quantitatively and qualitatively) at the various sites served. The final element of the SWUPHD-EHD new RBIIP incorporates new communicationstrategies amongst all SWUPHD stakeholders. These additional measures will include aquarterly newsletter delivered electronically (preferably) or via standard mail to all entitiesserved within geographical jurisdiction; an annual food safety town-hall meeting at variousMSA's within each of the five jurisdictional counties served (one in each per year); thedevelopment, delivery and collection of an annual 'feedback survey' (preferably in electronicformat within the current agency website) involving all SWUPHD-EHD constituents withinjurisdictional boundaries in an effort to collect, analyze and improve agency philosophies andpractices toward garnering the affective organizational commitment of all interestedstakeholders; and the creation of a public inspection notice section on the current agencywebsite for public viewing and awareness. Additional resources applicable to the successfulimplementation and sustainability of the three primary factors of the SWUPHD-EHD new RBIIPwill include an annual appropriation for professional grant writing and reporting fees;supplemental office supplies and technological support equipment (updated computers); andannual compensation raises for SWUPHD-EHD staff.