Food Safety
Food Hygiene Awareness is a basic course appropriate for anybody wishing to have an awareness of food hygiene.
It has also been designed to help the food and catering industries to provide training to a safe level for those who perform “low risk” tasks such as clearing tables, maintaining stores,”meals on wheels” and other such similar duties. This course is also relevant to employees working in food factories but not in “high risk” sections of the plant.
This course covers the basics of food safety awareness including food poisoning and bacteria.
Course length: 4 hrs
Qualification: Attendance certificate
This short course is also designed as a refresher for catering staff who have already done the basic hygiene course. The content is designed to update and refresh information from the one day course. The course can also be used as basic training for staff who do not have direct contact with food preparation but are still involved in food handling.
Food Hygiene Awareness Syllabus
- Food poisoning
- Bacteria
- Cross contamination
- Pests
Course Objectives:
- Describe the symptoms of food poisoning
- Explain what constitutes food poisoning
- Describe the major food poisoning bacteria
- List the sources of food poisoning bacteria
- Explain the principles of cross contamination
- List the major pests in relation to food hygiene
Cost: £25 per person + VAT on open courses
£25 per person + VAT (min charge of £200 + VAT) for in-house courses