Training of Food Handlers: How to Increase Impact and Reduce Costs?

Kathleen Van Steenbergen has more than 25 years of experience in professionalising training in production environments such as food service, retail, food manufacturing but also pharmaceutical industry and professional laundry. Since 2011, she is Head of Christeyns Academy, the training department of Christeyns. Christeyns is a Belgian B2B family business, operating in different sectors of the international chemicals and detergents market. The company was founded in Ghent in 1946. Over the years, Christeyns developed extensive expertise and in-depth technical knowledge relating to cleaning, hygiene and disinfection. Christeyns is active in over 30 different countries with a turnover of 350 million euros turnover, based on a 17% average annual growth rate. Christeyns’ passion for hygiene and for providing excellent service are key in our strategy. Our training department, Christeyns Academy offers and deploys customer trainings that actually benefit and help our customers get more value out of their products. Being convinced that we are at a tipping point in the area of training, we strongly believe in the future of online learning as a tool to develop a food safety culture.