To promote food safety certification for members, the International
Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) has developed the Food Safety
Certification Reimbursement Program. This IDDBA program will reimburse IDDBA
retail members for their cost for food safety certification exams. Eligible
employees are supermarket dairy, deli, and bakery managers and associates at
store-level who successfully complete a certification exam. The scholarship and
reimbursement funds are allocated on an annual basis (July-June Fiscal Year).
Each store group is capped at a maximum reimbursement of $2,000 per fiscal year.
Available dollars are pro-rated among eligible applicants. Once the fund has
been depleted, there will be no additional reimbursements made during that
fiscal year. Reimbursement will be in the form of a check to the IDDBA member.
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Food safety certification exams from the following organizations:
Prometric, www.prometric.com/foodsafety/CPFM.htm (Certified Professional Food
Manager)
National Registry of Food Safety Professionals, www.nrfsp.com (Food Safety
Manager Certification or FMI-SuperSafeMark)
National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, www.nraef.org (ServSafe
Food Protection Manager Certification)
EMPLOYEE ELIGIBILITY
Only current IDDBA-member retail companies are eligible. To verify your
company’s membership, check if your company appears in the list of current IDDBA
members.
Within the company, only store-level dairy, deli, or bakery department managers
or associates are eligible for certification reimbursement.
REIMBURSEMENT
Amount: 100% of the retailer’s cost for eligible food safety certification exams
per certified employee, at a maximum limit of the testing company’s published
cost of the exam.
- Each store group is capped at a maximum reimbursement of $2,000 per fiscal
year. - Expenses not included are training, materials, labor hours, meals, travel,
in-store trainer salaries, etc., nor do we cover recertification. - Reimbursement will be distributed proportionally among eligible
applicants.
Required:
- Copy of invoice for payment of exam for each employee.
- Copy of certification certificate awarded to each employee or pass list on
testing company letterhead. - Name, store address, and home address for each certified employee. You
must include the specific store name and title for each employee.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
APPLICATIONS
Employees certified from: Submit application by:
- September 1 through October 31
- November 1 through December 31
- January 1 through February 28
- March 1 through April 30
- May 1 through June 30
- July 1 through August 31 December 1
- February 1
- April 1
- June 1
- August 1
- October 1
IDDBA reserves the right to determine what costs will be reimbursed and to what
extent.
Click here to apply online or to view or print the Food Safety Certification
Reimbursement Application.
Or, call or write for an application:
- Karen Peckham
- IDDBA
- P.O. Box 5528
- Madison WI 53705-0528
- phone: 608.310.5000
- E-mail: kpeckham@iddba.org
IDDBA’s financial support of the training and certification process does not
imply endorsement or guarantee of the training, materials, and/or performance of
anyone trained using these programs.
Also, check out our Industry Related Links for more Scholarship and Education
sites.
ServSafe is a registered trademark of the National Restaurant Association
Educational Foundation.
