NEHA Training creates exciting new opportunities in food safety.

An exciting new opportunity from NEHA Training allows qualified applicants to become registered food safety trainers for free through December 31, 2003.

NEHA Training, a subsidiary of NEHA, was created to register qualified food safety trainers and provide them with low-cost, high-quality training resources to train food safety managers seeking certification.

To become a registered trainer, an applicant must show a minimum level of competency in the three core areas recommended by the Conference for Food Protection: 1) food safety knowledge, 2) training or teaching skills, and 3) experience in the food industry.

For details about how to meet NEHA Training's minimum competency requirements and receive an application form, contact NEHA Training at [phone], extension 347, or e-mail [e-mail]. Alternatively, the application form and guidance notes are online on NEHA Trainings Web site, at www.nehatraining.com.

Registered trainers offer their training services to clients nationwide, whether through side businesses of their own or at places of employment such as health departments. The advantages to using NEHA Training's materials include the proven effectiveness of the student textbook Food Safety Management Principles, its affordability ($10 to $16 per copy, depending on the quantity purchased), and the high quality of the course curricula and training resources provided to trainers. NEHA Training also sells the nationally recognized Food Safety Manager Certification Exam, from the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals, for $20 per exam in bundles with NEHA Training books.

As a special bonus to this offer, trainers will receive a free Trainer Resource Pack (a $125 value) with their first purchase of 10 copies of the student textbook Food Safety Management Principles at $15 each plus shipping and handling. That means that for $150, trainers receive $275 worth of books and training materials! (The offer is good through December 31, 2003.)

Food Safety Management Principles, NEHA Training's student textbook for food safety manager certification, is based on the Food and Drug Administration Model Food Code, and it is concise and brightly illustrated. Food Safety Management Principles presents all the essential microbiological and technical food safety principles food safety managers need to know in a way that is easy to read, understand, and retain. This low-cost book is ideal for teaching food safety managers how to become certified and skilled at their jobs.

NEHA Training's free Trainer Resource Pack is a comprehensive and adaptable set of training materials. It includes everything a trainer needs to teach food safety manager certification, whether to start one's own consulting and training business, or to increase the revenue base of the food safety division at a health department.

The free Trainer Resource Pack includes detailed session plans for the following three courses:

* a 16-hour (two-day) food safety manager certification course,

* an eight-hour (one-day) accelerated food safety manager certification course, and

* an eight-hour (one-day) refresher/review course.

Also included in the free Trainer Resource Pack are

* a CD-ROM with a PowerPoint presentation,

* images for handouts and overheads,

* activities that reinforce student learning, and

* the Food Safety Card Game.

In addition, all registered trainers receive the following benefits:

* The opportunity to purchase bundled Food Safety Manager Certification Exams with NEHA Trainings books at a discounted rate of $20 per exam. This exam, from the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals, is regularly priced at $25 when purchased alone, and it is one of four nationally recognized exams by the Conference for Food Protection.

* An invitation to become a first-time member of the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) for a discount of nearly 50 percent off NEHA's regular membership price.

* A copy of the Trainers' Charter, a Registration Certificate, and the right to place NEHA Training's registered-trainer logo on stationery, business cards, or training-course promotions.

As mentioned above, upon becoming a registered trainer, the free Trainer Resource Pack (a $125 value!) will be shipped with the trainer's first order of 10 copies of Food Safety Management Principles at just $15 each plus shipping and handling.

To take advantage of these exciting new offers, please request an application packet from NEHA Training by phone at [phone], extension 347; by e-mail at [e-mail]; or through NEHA Training's Web site (www.nehatraining.com), from which all of the information and application forms can be downloaded.