SLIDE 5 Parallels of Food Defense (IA Rule) Workplace Violence Prevention
FDA IA Rule Requires a Food Defense Plan
- Form Cross-Functional Team to identify
vulnerabilities and define risk mitigation strategies*
- Write a FD plan to mitigate risk at identified
vulnerable areas across the supply chain that requires actionable process steps
- Background Checks of all employees with expansive
checks of those assigned to actionable process steps** (FDA suggested that worker placement at high risk process areas should be “senior trusted employees”)***
- FDA requires training to identify risks and report
concerns at all actionable process steps
- Monitor Employees in high risk areas. (FDA advises
Mitigation Strategies that identify “credible threats to the food
- supply. . . require actionable intelligence”.)
- Create a method to report and track threats, monitor
and verify corrective actions
- Report credible threats to appropriate authorities
A Workplace Violence Prevention Program
- Form Cross-Functional Intervention Team to develop
the WV policy, outline troubled employee behaviors and define risk mitigation strategies and training programs
- Write Overarching “Zero Tolerance” WV Policy that
includes: DV/IP Violence, Bullying, Threats against workers and the company such as Intentional Adulteration ****
- Comprehensive Background Checks (not on-line
review criminal history,) that review the entire application for discrepancies and integrity concerns
- Train all employees to identify behavioral risks, how to
report concerns and properly mitigate escalation.
- Monitor workers for behavioral concerns
- Create a crisis line for reporting and a case database
for tracking threats
- Provide EAP and DV resource information for victims
- Report Threats to appropriate authorities
