Step-by-Step: Building a Food Safety Plan

From Food Safety Theory to Practice

You’ve already learned how contamination happens and how to prevent it through good hygiene, sanitation, and pest control.

Now, we’re moving from personal responsibility to system-level food safety — how professional kitchens document and maintain safe practices daily.

A Food Safety Plan (FSP) is the backbone of every safe food business.
It ensures that safe food handling doesn’t depend on luck or memory — it’s planned, verified, and recorded.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• Explain what a Food Safety Plan is and why it matters.
• Identify foundation programs that support a plan.
• Apply HACCP principles to identify hazards and controls.
• Create procedures for monitoring, corrective actions, and recordkeeping.
• Design a plan that meets global food safety standards.

You’ll use this knowledge in the next lesson to build your own Food Safety Plan using downloadable templates.