Why Personal Hygiene Management is a challenge

Here are some of the typical situations you might recognize in your current Personal Hygiene Management:

  • You sound like a broken record... for ever repeating to your colleagues to follow the rules - with little effect
  • The Personal Hygiene rules are not in line with the time colleagues have to get from A to B, and hence are not followed
  • Management and Maintenance change the environment without consulting QA
  • QA acts as a police officer
  • You throw away a lot of coveralls and don't know what you can change without compromising food safety
  • You are not happy with the current Personal Hygiene Management
  • Top management and shop floor are not on board and do not embrace the Personal Hygiene Management
  • Your facility is situated in a brown field. You don't know how to you implement zoning
  • You received non-conformity on Personal Hygiene Management
  • You hold an IFS certificate and need to meet requirement for Personal Hygiene 3.2, 3.2.1*, Knock Out KO3 3.2.2*, 3.2.3 and 5.2.1 for Site Factory Inspections, this training will be beneficial. It provides insights into the necessary actions and Best Practices, enabling you to customize the Personal Hygiene for your organization.


And there might be many other situations...

... the question is: are you happy with your Personal Hygiene Management and what can you do to create a well-functioning Personal Hygiene Management Program?

=> Join our Program and start making a difference in Personal Hygiene Management in your organization!

How to create and implement a well-functioning Personal Hygiene Management Program

What is included in this Mastery Module: Personal Hygiene Management

  • Required Level: Senior QA-professional / QA-manager

  • This Module is A Part Of The Compliance Accelerator Program. This Module Contains ± 2.5 Hours Of Video Lessons With Explanations HOW you can create and implement a well-functioning Personal Hygiene Management Program. And Explanations of HOW to use the downloads that you can implement.

  • Understand the Importance of Personal Hygiene

  • Know the typical problems of zoning and connecting with routing

  • Learn how to get the right level of gowning everywhere

  • Know the frequent personal hygiene measures issues and how you can address these. Know what to discuss with management in terms of creating a sense of urgency and convince them with deeper insights

  • Have clarity on how you are going to engage everybody to show the right behavior in terms of personal hygiene

  • Have a clear route forward to start working on improving the personal hygiene situation and management

  • When You Have Finished All The Steps Of This Mastery Module You Can Download Your Certificate

  • As Part Of the Compliance Accelerator Program You Have Access to the Monthly Open Office Hours with one of our Coaches. During This Coaching Session, You Can Ask All The Questions You Have Regarding This Topic To Our Coaches

What You Get in this Mastery Module

Exactly the boost you need HOW to get to the next level!

    1. 1. Welcome and Agenda Module - Duration video ± 1 minutes

    2. 2. The importance of Personal Hygiene - Duration video ± 6 minutes

    3. 2a. DOWNLOAD: Template Presentation Important Aspects to Convince Your Stakeholders

    4. 3. Personal Hygiene Management Building Blocks - Duration video ± 2 minutes

    5. 4. Connection Zoning People and Materials - Duration video ± 11 minutes

    6. 5. What are the Typical Problems of Zoning in Brown field and Green field situations? - Duration video ± 7 minutes

    7. 5a. DOWNLOAD: Zoning and Routing Problem Checklist

    8. 6. Typical Gowning Issues - Duration video ± 11 minutes

    9. 6a. How to get the Right Level of Gowning Everywhere? - Duration video ± 9 minutes

    10. 6b. Explanation Download: Gowning Decision Matrix - Duration video ± 3.5 minutes

    11. 6c. DOWNLOAD: Gowning Decision Matrix

    12. 7. Personal Hygiene Measures - Aspects to Consider - Duration video ± 16 minutes

    13. 7a. Frequent Personal Hygiene Measures issues and How to Address These - Duration video ± 10 minutes

    14. 7b. Explanation Download: Personal Hygiene Measures Effectiveness - Duration video ± 4 minutes

    15. 7c. DOWNLOAD: Checklist on Personal Hygiene Measures Effectiveness

    16. 8. Training and Communication for Personal Hygiene - Duration video ± 6 minutes

    17. 8a. Training and Communication - Duration video ± 3 minutes

    18. 8b. Explanation Download: Excel file Training Communication Plan - Duration video ± 2.5 minutes

    19. 8c. DOWNLOAD: Training and Communication Plan

    20. 9. Advantages and Disadvantages of Automation for Personal Hygiene - Duration video ± 8 minutes

    21. 10. Discipline - Duration video ± 4 minutes

    22. 11. Stakeholder management done the right way - Duration video ± 15 minutes

    23. 11a. Explanation video Checklist Stakeholder Management - Duration video ± 3 minutes

    24. 11b. DOWNLOAD: checklist Stakeholder management

    25. 12. How to get everyone moving towards an effective Personal Hygiene Management system - Duration video ± 10 minutes

    26. 12a. DOWNLOAD: Project Plan template for upgrading your Personal Hygiene Management system

    27. 13. How to use and create your time line to upgrade your Personal Hygiene Management system? - Duration video ± 1,5 minutes

    28. 13a. DOWNLOAD: Time line template to manage the upgrade of the Personal Hygiene management system

    29. 14. What is next - Duration video ± 3 minutes

    30. Monthly Open Office Hour / Hora mensual de oficina abierta / Maandelijks open kantooruur

    31. Evaluation Of This Module

About this course

  • $349.00
  • 31 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

Instructors and Coaches

With over 29 years of experience, Kitty Appels has helped countless quality professionals grow into confident, senior-level experts in the food industry. Her background in food technology gives her a strong technical foundation, while her coaching style focuses on practical leadership and personal development.

Kitty is known for her people-first approach. As an interim QA manager, she has guided struggling teams — often working under high stress or unsupportive leadership — back to a place of confidence, clarity, and food safety excellence. Her motto, “Many roads lead to Rome,” reflects her flexible, empowering mindset.

She finds joy in helping quality professionals unlock their potential, overcome internal and external challenges, and become balanced, respected voices within their organizations.

💬 “Nothing is more fulfilling than seeing a QA professional stand tall, speak up, and truly own their role.”

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Kitty Appels

Senior Instructor and Coach

Instructors and Coaches

Rob has over 27 years of experience in the international food industry and has supported QA teams in more than 70 countries. With a background in physics and econometrics, he combines scientific insight with strategic thinking to help organizations improve their food safety and quality systems.

As a frequent speaker at global conferences including the IFC (World Bank) and FI Global, Rob is recognized for his practical expertise in GFSI standards and organizational improvement. Over the past decade, he has coached many QA Directors and Vice Presidents in the food industry, helping them influence senior management and embed food safety into business culture.

💬 “I help QA professionals turn complex requirements into real-world results.”

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Rob Kooijmans

Senior Instructor and Coach

Instructors and Coaches

Luis cuenta con más de 25 años de experiencia en aseguramiento de la calidad, inocuidad alimentaria y gestión de riesgos. Está especializado en ofrecer soluciones prácticas y efectivas, alineadas con los estándares internacionales, para empresas alimentarias y agroindustriales en América Latina y Europa. Con una sólida trayectoria tanto en la industria como en organismos de certificación, ha realizado más de 400 días de auditoría como auditor líder para empresas productoras de alimentos. Su experiencia incluye el desarrollo de proveedores y co-fabricantes, así como la capacitación técnica en temas clave de inocuidad alimentaria y cumplimiento con esquemas GFSI. Luis es reconocido por su enfoque práctico y orientado a resultados, ayudando a equipos operativos y a la alta dirección a traducir los requisitos normativos en acciones concretas y sostenibles.

💬 “La mejora real surge cuando conectamos las normas con la aplicación práctica en el día a día.”

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Luis Fissore

Instructor y entrenador (Español)

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