A strong food safety culture is not built on a poster hung up on the wall.
It's built through the daily decisions, conversations, and moments when people choose to do the correct thing, even when no one is watching.
Turn Food Safety into a Habit, Not a Rule.
This 2-day program helps your Spanish-speaking workforce move beyond compliance and become active contributors to your Food Safety Culture.
After this course, your team will be able to:
Turn GFSI Food Safety Culture expectations into clear, practical actions.
Use culture assessment tools to evaluate culture maturity through day-to-day behavior.
Define critical behaviors that help make food safety a visible priority at every level of the organization.
Build a Food Safety Culture roadmap with clear goals and practical actions.
Set culture KPIs and leading indicators to track program progress in a clear and measurable way.

Food Safety and Quality Leaders
Operations, Production, and Maintenance Teams
Human Resources, Training, and Internal Communications Partners
Created for the teams that know a real culture isn't created by HR announcements.
A strong culture is lived when leadership in all departments actively reinforces the exact same standards on the line every single day. This course gives your Spanish-speaking leaders a practical framework to align priorities, define clear roles, and turn food safety expectations into automatic habits.
When every department takes direct ownership of the culture, improving your system & meeting GFSI requirements become natural outcomes of your daily routine.
A strong culture isn't built in a conference room. It's built on the floor, shift after shift.
Dr. Ligia Estefanía Arízaga Collantes is an expert in Food Quality and Safety Management Systems, with a PhD in Projects and a Master of Science (Magister Scientiae) in Agribusiness. She has over a decade of experience as a consultant, trainer, and auditor for SMEs and large industries. She is a certified Lead Auditor in the main GFSI schemes (FSSC 22000, SQF, BRC), an Official SQF Consultant, and is qualified as a PCQI Trainer for the FDA's FSMA regulations. She has led the implementation of systems in key companies in the sector and currently serves as Technical Manager and Director of Quality and Safety, which gives her an indispensable practical perspective for teaching.


Day 1
• Understand GFSI expectations and why culture is now part of every audit.
• Evaluate your current culture to spot hidden blind spots across shifts.
• Set a clear food safety vision that team leads can actually put into practice
(Pillars 1 & 2).
• Learn to build daily habits that keep your lines consistent from shift to shift (Pillars 3 & 4).
• Workshop: Map out a practical strategy to upgrade your facility's food safety culture.
Day 2
• How to handle cultural change & resistance management .
• Learn to coach supervisors to give better feedback and reinforce good habits on the floor.
• Workshop: Move attention away from audit scores and towards daily floor habits.
• Recognize strong performance and adapt quickly when risks appear.
• Workshop: Step-by-step 90-day execution plan tailored to your plant.

$400.00 USD
Participation Diploma
Certification with partner organization FUNIDEPRO
Access to downloadable resources
Duration: 16 hours (2 days)
Schedule: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM MST

$350.00 USD
Participation Diploma
Certification with partner organization FUNIDEPRO
Access to downloadable resources
Duration: 16 hours (2 days)
Schedule: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM MST

Impartiality and Conflict of Interest
Enrollment and participation in training courses offered by CICS Americas does not grant or imply any benefit, advantage, preference, or impact on the results of audits, ratings, certifications, recertifications, or evaluations conducted under schemes such as SQF or other food safety programs.
The proper implementation, maintenance, and improvement of management systems, as well as performance during audits and compliance with applicable requirements, are the sole responsibility of your company and its personnel. CICS Americas does not guarantee specific results from participation in the courses, as these depend directly on the practical application of the knowledge acquired.
CICS Americas maintains a strict separation between its training services and any auditing or certification activities in order to preserve the impartiality, objectivity, and integrity of the process, avoiding any actual or perceived conflict of interest.
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