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Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager

A private, fully customized specialist course in hygiene & gmp, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own operation. You finish able to put sanitation & hygiene manager skills to work immediately.

The Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager course builds deep, applied competence in cleaning and sanitation program design, hygiene control, verification, corrective actions, and sanitation documentation. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your operation.

What You Will Be Able to Do

Listed in the TrustBite registry on completion

Every trainee who completes the course is added to the TrustBite registry of certified professionals, a public directory employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people. The certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.

How It Works

What the Programme Covers

Six modules, taught live and 1-on-1 in the order below. Every module is worked through on your own site, products and markets, so the examples are yours from the first session.

  1. 1

    Hygiene law and GMP

    What hygiene law and the schemes require of premises, equipment and people, and where sanitation fits in your prerequisite programmes.

  2. 2

    The master cleaning schedule

    Building a schedule for every surface, from daily line cleans to periodic deep cleans, and the records that go with it.

  3. 3

    Chemicals, tools and safety

    Choosing detergents and sanitisers, dosing, contact time, colour coding and keeping cleaning staff safe.

  4. 4

    People, pests and premises

    Personal hygiene rules, protective clothing, pest control contracts, waste handling and hygienic design of the building.

  5. 5

    Checking it worked

    Pre-operational inspection, ATP and microbiological swabs, cleaning audits and what to do when a check fails.

  6. 6

    Your sanitation programme

    A master cleaning schedule, hygiene rules and inspection checklist for your own site.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • InternationalCodex General Principles of Food Hygiene (CXC 1-1969) and the cleaning, pest control and personnel hygiene sections of ISO/TS 22002-1.
  • EURegulation (EC) 852/2004 Annex II and Regulation (EC) 853/2004 for sites handling food of animal origin.
  • UKThe Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and equivalents, and the Food Safety Act 1990.
  • US21 CFR Part 117 Subpart B current good manufacturing practice, USDA FSIS 9 CFR Part 416 sanitation and SSOPs, and the FDA Food Code for retail and food service.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, Part 4, on sanitation, pest control and hygiene of personnel.
  • Australia and New ZealandFSANZ Food Standards Code, Standards 3.2.2 and 3.2.3.
  • GFSI schemesThe housekeeping, hygiene and pest control clauses of BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9, IFS Food Version 8, FSSC 22000 Version 6 and the SQF Food Safety Code.

How We Tailor It to You

We build the course around your building, your lines and your cleaning team. The schedule and checklist you finish with are written for your site and can go into use the next day.

Take This Course as Part of a Bundle

Combine this course with related specialist courses. You get more skills and one certificate-backed path for less than buying the courses separately.

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Hygiene & GMP Specialist Pack

Three courses from Hygiene, Sanitation & GMP
  • Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager
  • Certified GMP/cGMP Specialist for Food Manufacturing
  • Certified Cleaning Verification & Validation Specialist
€725 €899.97
Certified GMP/cGMP Specialist for Food Manufacturing included at a reduced rate · save €175
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Sanitation & Hygiene + Hazard Control Pack

This course plus two Hazard Control specialisms
  • Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager
  • Certified Allergen Control Specialist
  • Certified Listeria & Pathogen Environmental Control Specialist
€842 €1,049.97
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Add courses and your savings grow automatically. Bundle two and you save on the second. Build a bigger set and the extra courses come at up to half price. More skills, one certificate-backed path, for a fraction of what the courses cost separately.

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    Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager Questions

    The questions buyers and food safety professionals ask most about this course.

    Yes. The Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager course is delivered entirely 1-on-1 with a dedicated instructor, online and live, and scheduled around your working hours. Most providers deliver specialist topics as fixed-date group webinars. Confi Food builds the course around your own products, processes, and site from the first session.

    The Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager course is €299.99, delivered 1-on-1 and fully customized. It can also be taken in a bundle with related specialist courses at a lower combined price.

    Yes. You can combine this course with any other Confi Food courses and the price adjusts automatically, with bigger savings the more you add. The extra courses come at up to half price, so you build a wider set of skills for a fraction of buying them separately.

    On completion you receive a TrustBite-recognised Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager certificate with a unique verification ID, and you are listed in the TrustBite registry of certified professionals. The registry is a public directory that employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people, so the certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.

    The certificate is valid for 3 years. After that it can be renewed by completing a short online refresher quiz for €50, and the updated certificate is issued automatically and your registry listing is kept current.

    It suits food safety professionals who need applied depth in this specific area, whether to meet a regulatory requirement, close an audit finding, or take on the role. Because it is 1-on-1, the instructor sets the starting point to your level and your operation.

    Start the Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager

    Enrol now and start with a session mapped to your operation, or book a free consultation first.

    Pay in two instalments or lesson by lesson, buy as a company on invoice, or claim 30% off as a graduate.