Food Handling Safety: Best Practices & Hygiene

Food Handler: Definition and Responsibilities

A food handler is a person who has direct contact with food during preparation, processing, packaging, storage, transportation, distribution, supply, and service.

High-Risk Food Handler

A high-risk food handler is involved in the processing and handling of foods prepared for sale, supply, and service directly to consumers. These activities are performed by qualified and competent health authorities.

Good Handling Practices

Food handlers must:

  • Receive training
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Mastering Organizational Resilience: Crisis Management Strategies

Chapter 1 – Organizational Resilience

Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.

Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions in order to survive and prosper.

Organizational resilience as a long-term value driver for new opportunities:

  • Increase the likelihood of adapting to change
  • Shortened time of adapting to change
  • Maximize the impact of adapting to change
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Optimizing Recruitment: Overtime, Onshoring, and Selection

Overtime and Onshoring in Recruitment

Overtime is a common alternative to recruitment, especially for short-term fluctuations in workload.

Onshoring involves moving jobs to lower-cost cities within the US. While some companies may prefer offshoring, government regulations may require onshoring for certain financial, health, and defense data.

Global Implications for Recruitment

Outsourcing, offshoring, and reshoring are three global activities that significantly affect recruitment. Outsourcing is hiring

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Cellular Network Concepts: Handoff, Channel Assignment, and Interference

Methods for Handoff Procedures

Hard Handoff (Break-before-Make)

The connection to the old base station is terminated before a new connection is established with the next base station.

Used in FDMA and TDMA-based systems (e.g., GSM).

It can cause call drops if the new base station is not available immediately.

Example: GSM, AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System).

Soft Handoff (Make-before-Break)

The mobile device maintains connections with multiple base stations simultaneously before switching.

Used in CDMA-

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HRM Activities: Key Players and External Factors

Who Performs Human Resource Management Activities?

Human Resource Management (HRM) activities are carried out by various individuals and groups, both internal and external to an organization.

Key Players in HRM

  • Human Resource Management Professionals: Individuals who typically act in an advisory or staff capacity, collaborating with other managers to assist them in addressing human resource matters.
  • Line Managers: Managers at every level are inherently involved in HRM as they manage their teams.

External

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Agricultural Enterprise: Characteristics and Economic Performance

Agricultural Enterprise: An Overview

Agricultural enterprises are social units deliberately structured to achieve specific social purposes. They comprise individuals or groups within a defined structure and context, controlled by shared values. Three key elements characterize these enterprises:

  • Actors: Individuals and groups involved in the organization, pursuing personal goals.
  • Resources: Tangible and intangible assets available to the actors, varying based on availability.
  • Values: Desired future states
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