A food employee demonstrating food safety knowledge and proper practices.     

WEHA Recertification Course

Looking for food safety education material that is accurate, easy-to-use and inexpensive? WEHA’s food safety education material (a.k.a. Re-certification Course) may be right for your agency. Realizing that most health departments do not have the time or resources to sponsor a Recertification Course, WEHA has now made the presentation available to be used for general food safety training. Public Health Sanitarians and WEHA members developed the food safety education material using PowerPoint. After several revisions the course covers a range of topics, including:

• Foodborne illness
• Safe food handling
• Employee health
• HACCP principles

This course is based on the Wisconsin Food Code. It can be easily divided into smaller segments and can be taught using PowerPoint or transparencies. The instructor packet includes the following material: 99 slide PowerPoint presentation, instructor notes highlighting demonstrations and discussion points, various handouts, a 20 point quiz and key, and a 40 page written student manual. The student packet includes the slides printed 3 per page with an area for note taking, handouts, quiz and written student manual. The instructor packet and student packet are sold separately. Proceeds from the sale of this course support WEHA.

The Department of Health and Family Services has approved this course as a 4 hour Recertification Course.  For information on obtaining course sponsorship, please contact James Kaplanek at 608-261-8361. The Recertification Committee recommends instructors be registered sanitarians with at least 3 years of food safety experience. Additionally, instructors are encouraged to pass an approved certified manager examination with a score of at least 90% and complete a train-the-trainer course. This is not a mandatory requirement.

At this time several agencies are using the WEHA Recertification Course, including Western Wisconsin Technical College, Northcentral Technical College, Chippewa Valley Technical College, City of Madison Department of Public Health, and Douglas County Health Department.  The Madison Department of Public Health has also used this course for their General Food Safety/Foodborne Illness course they have been offering free to food establishment employees.

Re-certification Course order form (PDF)

For more information please contact Beth Cleary at
608-294-5341 or e-mail bcleary@ci.madison.wi.us.

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