Customized On-site Training

The rapid pace of change in the food manufacturing supply chain is astonishing. To stay abreast of technological advances and evolving regulatory rules in our global marketplace, well-informed and knowledgeable employees are key to your safety and quality objectives.

Employee Empowerment

As a leading industry provider of education and training services since 1967, Silliker, Inc. understands your enormous challenges. Through a wide spectrum of customized short courses, our training professionals can help you reduce your training costs, deliver consistent messages to your multi-lingual workforce, and empower your employees.

Right Programs for Different Audiences

Whether you’re looking for a one-hour HACCP refresher session in Spanish for operators or an allergen control seminar for R&D personnel, we tailor our programs to fit your product and processes. From newly hired on-line workers to experienced top managers, we can conceive and conduct an effective, affordable program that’s right for different audiences.

Leading Provider

Throughout North America and Europe, we conduct customized programs for leading manufacturers, retailers, and distributors, and food service companies. Using our technical resources throughout our international network of labs, we can adapt course content to reflect different country regulations.

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GMP/Food Safety Overview 
(Can be delivered in English and Spanish)

Depending on your company programs, this course can encompass two to eight hours of training. Covered topics include:

• Basic food microbiology
• Good manufacturing practices
• Employee hygiene
• Building and facilities
• Allergen control
• Principles of sanitation
• Preventing cross-contamination
• Introduction to HACCP
• Food defense

This course is tailored for line workers, sanitation crews, maintenance employees, and all personnel in the processing environment. Can be adapted for management and R&D personnel.

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Practical HACCP
(Can be delivered in English and Spanish)

This program is designed to certifying your HACCP coordinator and build cohesiveness among your HACCP team. Accredited by the International HACCP Alliance, this two-day course covers the history of HACCP, prerequisite programs (GMPs, SOPs, SSOPs), challenges for HACCP programs, and the seven principles of HACCP. As part of the training, participants devise HACCP plans for their food product / CCPs. Special certificates are awarded upon the successful completion of the course. Can include supplemental online HACCP and microbiology courses and exam.

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HACCP Overview
(Can be delivered in English and Spanish)

This one-half day or one day program addresses the information needs of key company personnel – such as R&D, management or supervisory personnel who support the plant. Course provides the essential information and focuses on your product’s risks, processes and CCPs. Can be adapted to lead a discussion for purposes of updating your plan for renovations or additions.

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Effective Environmental Monitoring and Sampling Techniques

For your food safety plant managers or QA specialists, this one or two-day program covers how to develop, implement and maintain an effective environmental and equipment monitoring program. The course addresses specific organisms, microbial growth niches, and processes; overviews of routine versus investigational monitoring, sample site locations, size and frequency are also provided. Participants are also taught how to effectively teach proper sampling techniques to avoid common errors.

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Essentials of Auditing

This one or two-day program is ideal for personnel with internal auditing responsibilities. The course covers basic requirements for the implementation and maintenance of an effective internal audit program. To prepare for a third-party audit, attendees learn audit criteria, undergo physical in-plant assessments to develop their skills, participate in role play questioning, analyze criteria, and familiarize themselves with audit tools and reports through classroom instruction and interactive exercises.

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Improving Your Allergen Control Program
(Can be delivered in English and Spanish)

This one-half day or one-day awareness program for managers and supervisors heightens their awareness and sensitivity to health effects on consumers, common causes of recalls of related products, reviews your specific ingredients, process, and allergen control program, to identify potential weaknesses and discuss proactive steps to strengthen your program. Also includes discussions of effective training for plant personnel.

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Excelling As A Food Safety Trainer

Bring your plant QA managers and trainers together to build consistent training program company wide. Developed for new QA professionals with training responsibilities, this two-day course teaches unique concepts such as: building management support for training, principles and barriers to adult learning, the role of culture, improving supervisor training skills, and developing effective training sessions. Multiple workgroup sessions and case studies create an engaging, interactive course that helps you improve your training programs. Pre-course survey and post-exam are included in the certificate program. Due to the nature of the interactions, the class size is generally limited to 20 to 25.

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