Resources from MPI
This section highlights selected resources from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), New Zealand, including publications and guidance relevant to food safety governance, risk management, and organisational culture.
These materials support science-based regulation and practical implementation across the food system.
The food and fibre workforce: Data on its size and composition
This report provides useful sector-level context for understanding the workforce conditions that support food safety culture in New Zealand’s food and fibre sector. It highlights how workforce size, capability, and skills development contribute to safe and sustainable practice across the system. For the Food Safety Culture Lab, it offers a helpful perspective on how people, capability, and organisational support shape everyday food safety.
People Powered: The Future of the New Zealand Food & Fibre Workforce
This report provides valuable insight into the future workforce capability needed to support food safety culture across New Zealand’s food and fibre sector. It highlights the importance of skills development, leadership, training pathways, and cross-sector collaboration in shaping the people and systems behind safe and sustainable practice. For the Food Safety Culture Lab, it is a useful resource for understanding how workforce capability, professional development, and organisational learning contribute to stronger and more resilient food safety culture.
Food Safety Culture in New Zealand Food Businesses
This report presents findings from industry-focused research exploring how food safety culture is understood, measured, and embedded within food businesses. It highlights practical challenges, organisational drivers, and leadership influences shaping food safety behaviours across the sector. The insights support evidence-based strategies to strengthen culture beyond compliance.
This report provides useful national context for understanding the workforce conditions that underpin food safety culture across New Zealand’s food and fibre sectors. By mapping capability, training, retention, and future workforce needs, it highlights how safe practice is shaped not only by formal systems, but also by the people, skills, and organisational support structures that sustain everyday food safety. It is a valuable resource for considering how workforce capability and culture interact across the wider food system.
Food and fibre workforce: snapshot
Food Safety Good Governance Guide for Directors
This guide offers valuable governance-level context for understanding how food safety culture is shaped from the top of an organisation. It highlights the role of directors and senior leaders in creating the expectations, support structures, and accountability systems that enable safe practice across the business. For the Food Safety Culture Lab, it is a useful resource for thinking about how leadership, risk governance, and organisational commitment influence the development and sustainability of food safety culture.