Workshop Description: As a coffee roasters, we all should agree that quality management, food safety and employee safety are all important. In fact, the last two are regulated and one must comply. Quality management one could argue that without it, you will not survive.
In this workshop you will learn the scientific disciplines each requires, as well as how they overlap and even sometimes conflict.
We will work thru how to develop all three that feed into one another which helps create robust programs for each.
We will explore:
- The things you must do (regulatory - FDA and OSHA)
- The things you should do for quality control
- Risk assessment process for each
- Development of SOP's for each
- Documentation of the whole process
- Internal Audits, Corrective Actions and Root Cause Analysis
The end goal - is to create systems and programs for each that take your "tribal" knowledge and make it institutional. From there, you will understand that humans are humans, we make mistakes, but how do we prevent making the same ones over and over.
Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room Number: 372AB
Category: Business
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Instructor
Mike Ebert (he/him)
Senior Consultant, Firedancer Coffee Consultants
MIKE EBERT is founder of Firedancer Coffee Consultants, dedicated to helping clients create a personalized strategy to ensure long-‐term success. He works primarily with roasters, producers and retailers, drawing from his extensive experience in all facets of the specialty coffee supply chain to guide clients in reaching their potential. Ebert is an Authorized SCA Trainer (AST) for the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA); a certified Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) and lead trainer for food safety; and co-‐chairs curriculum for the SCA Educational Advisory Council, which develops new educational experiences for the specialty coffee community.