CannaCFO Magazine Issue 1 | Page 55

This is not only showing consumers that you care about them, but it is also a huge risk mitigator when it comes to liability and regulatory fines. Not only that,but it seriously reduces the likelihood that you will have to go through a recall or dispose of products due to a contamination oversite. Having to announce to the world that you messed up and potentially (or actually) harmed some of your customers is a huge black eye on not only your brand,but the industry as a whole. Having a good food safety practices in place can make or break a company. Don’t be the last company to be up to par with food safety, you may very soon regret it.

Worker safety or OSHA regulations are very important and most people don’t think about but them yet, but you should be implementing them now if you can. cGMP Certification is one way to get a start toward being OSHA compliant. All cGMP requirements from an accredited certifying body have requirements for documentation, training, and logs of some (but not all) OSHA standards. I would say that 90% of the companies in the cannabis industry that I conduct audits for have no OSHA documentation in place in their facility other than the informative poster on the wall.