Introducing Jean Dible
Jean Dible is the founder and principal of GA Food Safety Professionals and is the author of the two business aviation online food safety training courses. Jean wrote the courses with a lot of professional knowledge, experience, significant research and the help of many professionals in the business aviation industry and food regulatory agencies. Jean has been a working food
safety audit inspector in Atlanta, GA (US) for two restaurant chains, which gave her knowledge and experience in writing the two courses. Dible discovered business aviation a few years after founding her food safety company in 2000, and her career path then turned skyward instead of laterally in her educational endeavors. Jean has trained many business aviation professionals in person through the years, but decided it would be more cost efficient for aviation professionals to study aviation food safety online. All classes or courses become more expensive when there are travel expenses, and time away from home base for independent contractors and flight departments. Jean was a certified instructor and proctor for two national food safety and testing organizations in the US for fifteen years; The National Restaurant Association Foundation and The National Registry of Food Safety Professionals. Jean is a member of the National Restaurant Association, the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals, and NBAA. Jean’s professional food career began over 40-years ago after earning a BS degree in foods, nutrition and education from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA (US). Her first two academic teaching positions were an off-campus community instructor in foods and nutrition for Washington State University, and The University of Arizona (US). Initially in Jean's start-up business in 2000, she taught chefs and food service owners in the Atlanta, GA area. Within two years of opening her business, Jean hired translators and expanded her teaching to include Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean classes. Jean also has experience in audit inspecting a resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica and teaching food safety to Jamaican employees. Food safety training is ongoing with continuous updates in research and data worldwide. General aviation food handlers are too often in a food safety SOS mode during a mission, and Jean's food safety training program aims to change that. Understanding food safety principles and updating one's knowledge periodically will change the SOS mode from being reactive to proactive in the prevention of foodborne illness aboard an aircraft.
