Person

This pattern was last updated 22/09/2020, this is version 0.1

Experimental

Description

The person entity is an individual that interacts in one way or another in the Food and or Feed chain.

The list of related entities will be expanded upon as related entities are documented.

Operator

Entity diagram

Synonyms

Employee
Contractor
Customer
Inspector
Auditor
Member of the Public

What it is not

Person entity should not be used to identify a group of people, nor should it be used to describe a thing.

Key properties

The key properties are the entities include;

First Name
Last Name
Email address

Contextual properties

A person can wear many different hats within any industry, for example a Food Hygiene Officer can be an employee of a Competent Authority, they could be contracted out to assist another organisation and have a contractor number, they could be the inspector to a local takeaway, and the Auditor to a food processing company, they are a customer/consumers to grocery store, they may even be a producer and run a small farm. A person is recorded by many different organisations in many different ways.

Unique identifiers

The unique identifier for Person will vary depending on the role the Person is fulfilling at any stage of their interaction with the Food and Feed industry. It is the responsibility of the organisation recording the Person details to decide what that should be. For example;

An employee could have their staff number as a unique identifier
A customer may have their email address used as a unique identifier
A contractor may have contractor id used as a unique identifier