Food Hygiene

Food Hygiene

This certificate will ensure that your food handling staff, meet the training requirements of the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 and increase awareness of their responsibility to protect food from contamination.

Food Hygiene Course

This is a first-level course for all food handlers in the catering, food retailing or food processing environments. This course also links to NVQ Health & Social Care levels 2, 3 units 202, 203, 213, 214, 302, 303.

Course Content

• Bacteriology
• Personal hygiene
• Food contamination
• Food poisoning and its prevention
• Temperature control
• Design & construction of premises & equipment
• Cleaning & disinfection
• Pest Control
• Legislation

Course Duration

This one day course is of six hours duration and is followed by a thirty question multichoice examination paper, which may be conducted orally.

Certification

On successful completion of the course, delegates receive a certificate, which may be used for Continued Professional Development (CPD)/NVQ