About Us
About Us
About ADVANCE Continuing Education – Your Partner in Food Safety
Dedicated to Excellence, Expertise, and Public Health
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- Our Mission:
- At ADVANCE Continuing Education, our mission is to empower individuals and businesses with the essential food safety and emergency response skills needed to protect public health and ensure safe environments. We are committed to delivering high-quality, practical, and officially recognized certification courses across British Columbia and Canada.
- The ADVANCE Advantage:
- Unrivaled Expertise and Reputation: What sets us apart is our team of Certified Public Health Inspectors who serve as all of our FOODSAFE instructors. Their direct experience in food safety inspections and public health enforcement provides students with invaluable real-world insights and practical knowledge that goes beyond textbook learning.
- Official Recognition: We provide official FOODSAFE certificates issued by local Health Departments, ensuring your certification is widely accepted and respected.
- Community Focus: We are deeply rooted in the BC community, offering in-person classes in key locations like Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond, New Westminster, Surrey, Langley, Nanaimo, Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops and Penticton, as well as flexible online options.
- Multilingual Accessibility: Our commitment to inclusivity is reflected in our extensive multilingual workbooks and exams, making food safety training accessible to diverse communities.
- Our History & Values:
Advance Continuing Education is owned and operated by Keith Herle and Sandra Herle, who share passions for both food safety and education.
Keith Herle received a B.A. and B.Sc. in Microbiology from UBC, then completed the two-year training program at BCIT to become a certified Public Health Inspector. He began working as a Public Health Inspector for Vancouver Coastal Health in 1994 and soon after began also teaching FOODSAFE part time. Advance Continuing Education was created in 2003 as this FOODSAFE sideline grew. In 2010 he left Vancouver Coastal Health to teach future Public Health Inspectors in the Environmental Public Health program at BCIT. Keith maintains this full-time educational role at BCIT in addition to helping operate Advance Continuing Education.
Sandra Herle received a B.A. and a B.Ed. from UBC. She taught for several years in the private and public school systems, then turned her passion for education towards helping Advance Continuing Education grow into Canada’s #1 choice for FOODSAFE.
Since its beginning in 2003, Advance Continuing Education has evolved from Keith teaching all of the classes in his spare time, to now including approximately 25 instructors, all of whom teach part-time in addition to being Public Health Inspectors. These instructors have been selected to work with us because of their outstanding qualities of professionalism, integrity, personability, humor and dedication to ensuring their students learn as much as possible about food safety while earning this valuable food safety certificate.
- Meet Our Instructors: Learn more about the Public Health Inspectors who lead our courses!
- Our Mission:
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