Respectfully request your assistance in disseminating and gain participation from CS in the pilots of the Annual Sanitation Training. Below is information regarding both and how members can participate.
Your assistance is needed! Training Center Petaluma is developing two new tools to support the CS work force and they need your assistance in testing out these programs before they are officially distributed to the rate.
- C-STAR: CS Annual Sanitation Training. As per the Food Safety and Sanitation TTP, CG TTP 4-11.12, and the Tri-Service Food Code, NAVMED P-5010-1, all Culinary Specialists are required to complete four hours of annual sanitation training every year. Until now, there has not been a standard training for the Coast Guard. C-STAR is here to fix this issue. The course material is hosted on SharePoint and knowledge checks are hosted on the LMS. The training is broken down into four 1-hour sections with an associated knowledge check per section. To gain compliance, members will be required to successfully complete all four knowledge checks. When deployed live, the course will become a MT-B for all CSs. Now is the time for you to provide feedback on the material and knowledge checks.
All instructions are contained on the course site: https://uscg.sharepoint-mil.us/sites/C-STAR. The last page of every unit to take the assessments on the developmental LMS. Additionally, there is a survey built in where you can provide feedback. Please take this opportunity to provide honest feedback so that we can develop an effective and engaging training.
- Jack-of-the-Dust Structured on-the-job training. Self-paced e-learning course to support those who are in or aspire to be in the Jack-of-the-Dust (JOD) position.
Food Service Officers – Perpetual Inventory, the new online Jack-of-the-Dust “C” School course seeks PILOT PARTICIPANTS.
Preliminary course evaluation results show the course can save FSOs time by reducing FSO hours spent on JOD coaching. This online JOD course offers engaging tools, job aids, simulations, quick eLearning modules, and video demonstrations to accelerate a JOD’s learning curve and on-the-job skill transfer. The JOD student learns and applies all skills on-the-job to demonstrate JOD proficiency, save FSO time, and benefit CG dining facility operations. Numerous FSO have reported learning something new from their JODs as they move through the course. A JOD Competency Code will be entered into the record of successful JOD pilot course graduates. Unsure about the success of this course, hear from your shipmates who have participated in the developmental tests:
“This course helped me with my service wide. Also, I enjoyed the Cycle Menu Unit so much I started a new six-week cycle menu to save time, money, and have a little more consistency. It was great and I learned a lot.” – CS1 Shaylie Schiefer
“I love how short the lessons are. I could easily fit one in during my day.” – CS2 Conner Yaruso
“I used to say, ‘Can you look at this paperwork’. Everything was ‘the Paperwork’. But now I know the terminology to use to ask an effective question.” – CS3 Tom Labita
Registration Process:
- FSO downloads attached registration form.
- FSO completes attached registration form, identifying student(s) and their contact information.
- Start Date/Time: On registration form, FSO states date/times FSO is available to talk with Course Coordinator and determine best start dates for FSO unit’s registered students.
- FSO sends completed registration form to Dr. Linda Pfeifer, linda.j.pfeifer@uscg.mil.
Thank you for your assistance and time. Please let me know if you have questions.
Very Respectfully,
LCDR Mark Tatara
Performance Systems Division Chief
Culinary Specialist Division Officer
USCG Training Center Petaluma
599 Tomales Road
Petaluma, CA 94952-5000
Office: 707-765-7779
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