Course Overview

Simple, cost effective, high-impact food safety and hygiene course to protect your customers and your business.

This training has been designed to allow every business, regardless of size or turnover, to provide their staff first class training at a fraction of the cost and disruption of classroom based training. The content of the course is checked annually by the Royal Institute of Public Health to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the material. This module can be used as a self-study course at level 2 (formerly known as Foundation or Basic Food Hygiene). This course covers the 2007 update to the UK Food Standards including HACCP items.

Upon completion of this course all learners will receive a Certificate in Food Safety and Hygiene that will show the business is doing everything it can to prevent contamination and met its legal requirements. We’ve made every effort to keep the training as friendly, understandable and down to earth as possible but at the same time equipping the learner with all they need to know to protect against food poisoning and food-bourne illness.

It is believed that over 5,000,000 people in UK a year contract an illness from food. Environmental Health Authorities are increasingly investigating the source of the infection(s) and if businesses can be proven to have not made provisions for health and safety standards the guilty parties are often prosecuted and fined. Not only are these fines expensive but also have a very damaging effect on the business’s reputation.

Often the cause of a contamination isn’t particularly scientific, rather a result of one or two simple oversights in the Safety practices already in place. Correction and implementation of these practices doesn’t have to be complicated or time consuming, rarely involve costly equipment they just have to be pragmatic, safe and rigidly stuck to. In doing this training the learner will develop a clear awareness and understanding of the potential risks and the steps to take in avoiding, controlling or eliminating the risks. Learners will know the correct temperatures needed for storage and food handling activities from delivery through to sale, and be aware of common food pests and how to control them, along with the principles of cleaning and disinfection and how these apply to the workplace.

Insisting that all staff complete a food safety and hygiene course sends a clear message to both staff and customers on how seriously your business takes Food Safety Hygiene standards.

How It Works

The information below is specific to this particular course. If you would like a more general guide to how our purchasing and learning works please visit the Four Easy Steps page which should tell you all you need to know.

Alternatively; if you have a specific question or concern why not contact us directly ?

What

This is an online course, all the training will be taken through your browser window. There will be no face-to-face sessions with instructors nor will you receive any training material through the post. If you wish you may print out any page of the training material, and may also print the notes you took during the training.

You can also revisit the training material at any time, even after you have completed the course.

How

The material for this course has been broken down into several smaller lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject.

The lesson consist of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk you through the lesson material at a pace that suits you. Pages may also include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help you keep in touch and interested in the material.

Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be PAUSED and RESUMED at any stage. When all lessons in the course have been completed our system will realise and automatically record that you have successfully completed the course

When

The course is self-paced so you decided how fast or slow the training goes. This course will take approximately 2 hours, however you can complete the course in stages revisiting the training at any time.