4 customisable OKR examples for Food Safety

What are Food Safety OKRs?

The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.

Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.

We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Food Safety to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.

If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.

Building your own Food Safety OKRs with AI

While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.

Our customisable Food Safety OKRs examples

You will find in the next section many different Food Safety Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).

Hope you'll find this helpful!

1. OKRs to implement advanced food safety training program

Implement advanced food safety training program
Train 85% of the staff on the new food safety protocols
Schedule mandatory training sessions for all staff members
Track completion rates to ensure 85% staff participation
Develop a comprehensive new food safety protocol training module
Achieve 90% pass rate in the post-training food safety test
Implement interactive, scenario-based training
Schedule periodic review sessions before test
Develop comprehensive study guide for food safety
Develop comprehensive food safety curriculum by enlisting expert support
Identify professionals with expertise in food safety
Craft contents focusing on food safety standards
Plan curriculum structure with expert recommendations

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2. OKRs to implement comprehensive food safety training across the company

Implement comprehensive food safety training across the company
Ensure 90% of employees pass the post-training food safety assessment by week 12
Organize weekly review sessions on food safety protocols
Schedule regular feedback sessions to address concerns
Provide employees with study materials and quizzes
Develop a standardized food safety training curriculum by the end of week 4
Outline topics for new standardized curriculum
Draft and finalize curriculum by end of week 4
Research existing food safety training curriculums
Achieve 100% employee participation in food safety training sessions by week 8
Schedule mandatory food safety training sessions for all employees
Send reminders via email, weekly until deadline
Track individual progress and follow up as needed

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3. OKRs to coordinate comprehensive food safety trainings

Coordinate comprehensive food safety trainings
Schedule and execute at least 5 different training sessions
Book locations and prepare materials for each session
Run the training sessions and gather feedback afterwards
Identify topics and create an outline for each training session
Attract minimum 75% of staff attendance at each session
Communicate the importance and benefits of each session to staff
Create a schedule accommodating majority of staff availability
Offer incentives for regular attendance at sessions
Achieve 80% positive feedback in post-training evaluations
Implement routine anonymous feedback collection
Offer comprehensive support during training sessions
Integrate interactive activities in the training program

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4. OKRs to establish comprehensive food safety training across the company

Establish comprehensive food safety training across the company
Achieve an average post-training test score of 85% across all departments
Establish post-training mini-tests to measure understanding
Develop comprehensive, detailed training materials for all departments
Implement regular training sessions throughout all departments
Develop interactive food safety training curriculum by consulting 3+ industry experts
Draft interactive curriculum based on expert feedback
Review current food safety training material
Identify and reach out to 3+ industry experts for consultation
Ensure 100% of company staff completes the training within the quarter
Implement a mandatory policy for staff training completion
Remind staff weekly about required training
Regularly monitor and update training progress

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Food Safety OKR best practices to boost success

Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.

Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇

Tip #1: Limit the number of key results

The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.

We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.

Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRs

Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins

Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.

Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.

Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparency

Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row

Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.

As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.

Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.

How to turn your Food Safety OKRs in a strategy map

OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:

It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
It will highlight poorly set OKRs
It will surface execution risks
It improves transparency and accountability

Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.

Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRs

If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.

More Food Safety OKR templates

We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.

OKRs resources

Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.

To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
Blog posts: ODT Blog
Success metrics: KPIs examples

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