Regulatory Solutions

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In a fast-evolving agrifood landscape, we work with government regulatory agencies to strengthen their role in safeguarding public health.

Regulators hold a unique perspective with a view across this landscape, providing verification of food safety controls, responding to risk and enacting response. From executive leadership to operational teams, we help regulators consider their own internal food safety culture to navigate challenges like resource constraints, rising expectations, and shifting risks.

Through the Cultivate Regulatory Food Safety Culture model, we work with you to identify and strengthen regulatory systems, supporting the organizational development of people that integrates behavioral risk management with best regulatory practice. We empower agencies to balance industry and public interests by leveraging data-driven insights and intelligence-led strategies, ensuring effective, measurable regulatory action and forward-thinking solutions, whilst enabling richer stakeholder engagement.

Discover how Cultivate can help you measure your regulatory food safety culture to drive impactful, trusted food safety regulatory practice for a safer future.

Empowering Regulators to Leverage Culture and Protect Public Health with Integrity and Insight

The Cultivate Food Safety Regulatory Culture model draws upon organizational risk management elements in the internationally-recognized Cultivate Manufacturer Food Safety Culture model and integrates OECD best regulatory practice principles to deliver a complete regulatory maturity framework.

This unique model defines measurable continuous improvement stages in your organization’s food safety regulatory culture. Using this tool assists regulators in assessing areas that relate to purpose, accountability, transparency and the development of people that are critical to regulatory maturity. It also identifies specific characteristics of these maturity levels to assist in continuous improvement and support longer-term strategic planning.

Click here to download the full version of the Regulatory Maturity Model.

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Here in Victoria, Dairy Food Safety Victoria (DFSV) has teamed up with Cultivate SA to give food safety culture a real boost across our dairy industry. The team at Cultivate SA have been champions in assisting DFSV to fine tune our strategic plans, helping us focus on food safety culture in regulation.

Together, we've made massive strides in both industry and regulatory culture, bringing about stronger and more sustainable practices that keep our dairy products internationally preferred. Our collaborative approach has led to meaningful improvements, and we couldn't be prouder of the partnership between DFSV and Cultivate SA.

Corrie Goodwin, DFSV CEO and Anne Astin, Board Chair

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Regulatory culture and food safety culture share a critical common interest: ensuring the safety of the global food supply chain. Independent regulatory assurance plays a vital role in verifying food safety, while food businesses actively maintain and improve safety outcomes. This shared goal creates opportunities for collaboration between regulators and businesses to enhance food safety beyond compliance by addressing behaviors and systems that influence outcomes.

    Read more in these resources below, including a story from one Australian food safety regulator who integrated food safety culture into its regulatory approach, driving meaningful changes and fostering improved collaboration across the supply chain.

  • Just as food businesses manage food safety risks, regulators must focus on their own regulatory culture and organizational risk management. While regulators may not directly cause food safety incidents, failing to take timely and effective regulatory action can lead to serious consequences. Evaluating and improving internal regulatory systems, much like food businesses assess their food safety risk management systems, ensures better oversight, accountability, and impact.

     For further information about risk culture, explore these resources: