Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering Level 1
£15 + VAT
This food safety and hygiene for catering level 1 course will provide information on the basic principles of food safety and hygiene and help you understand your role and responsibilities in keeping food safe.
This course includes the option to play audio at no extra cost!
All about this Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering Level 1 Course
This course is suitable for workers who are not directly involved with preparing or handling high-risk open (unwrapped) food. For example, bar staff, front-of-house employees, food delivery drivers and riders, retail workers, e.g., shops and newsagents.
One of the legal requirements food business officers (FBOs) have is to ensure that food handlers are supervised and instructed and/or trained in food hygiene matters commensurate with their work activity. This course will include an overview of the legal requirements, key food safety hazards and personal hygiene. The course will also cover some of the controls you must follow to help ensure food is safe during handling.
In order to complete the course, you must achieve 80% or more in the final multiple choice quiz.
You will earn 2 CPD points on completion of the course, this course will take around 2 hours to complete and the certificate will last for two years.
Institute of Hospitality approved
This course has been independently reviewed and accredited by the Institute of Hospitality. The IoH is the world’s largest body for people working in hospitality professions and globally recognised as a mark of quality. As an Institute of Hospitality accredited course, you can be sure that the materials covered are detailed and highly useful for anyone working in the hospitality and leisure industries.
- Fully CPD registered
- Completed online with instant downloadable certificate
- Fully printed certificate posted next day
- Complete the online multiple choice assessment as many times as you need to pass
Please note – If you directly prepare, cook or handle high-risk foods you must undertake a Food Safety and Hygiene Level 2 course (either catering, retail or manufacturing) to comply with the law. If you are a supervisor or manager, you should complete our Food Safety for Catering Level 3 course.
Units covered
- Unit 1 – Introduction to Food Hygiene – In the first unit of the food safety and hygiene for catering level 1 course you will be introduced to food hygiene and look at an overview of the legal requirements, including allergen laws.
- Unit 2 – Personal Hygiene – In the second unit of the course you will explore personal hygiene and its importance when handling food. You will consider the potential impacts of poor personal hygiene in a food environment.
- Unit 3 – Key Hazards – This unit will cover the four types of food hazards, which are, microbiological, chemical, physical and allergenic. You will also look at food born illnesses, food poisoning, spoilage and pests.
- Unit 4 – Control Measures – In the final unit of the food safety and hygiene for catering level 1 course you will look at some control measures that you should follow to help keep food safe and free from contamination.
Institute of Hospitality approved
This course has been independently reviewed and accredited by the Institute of Hospitality. The IoH is the world’s largest body for people working in hospitality professions and globally recognised as a mark of quality. As an Institute of Hospitality accredited course, you can be sure that the materials covered are detailed and highly useful for anyone working in the hospitality and leisure industries.
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Complete the final quiz
Every course is assessed through a multiple choice quiz. These quizzes use a bank of questions that have multiple options and you need to choose the correct one. You need to answer a specific number of questions correctly to pass the course and get your certificate.
If you don’t pass first time it is no problem. You can attempt the quiz as many times as you need until you pass so there is nothing to worry about.
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As soon as you finish the course, you can download your certificate. This will also be accessible in your account any time you log in. Your certificate includes the course you have studied, your name, the date of completion and a verification number that can be used by future employers to verify that you passed your course.
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