Lesson Plan
The sections covered include:
- Learning Objectives and an introduction to Food Safety and Hygiene - Food
Safety and Hygiene are terms commonly used, here we will look at how they relate
to food that has been processed or manufactured.
- Impact of Food-Borne Illness - looking at what food-bourne illnesses are
and how they affect us.
- Understanding Food Law - food often has a long journey from growing, harvesting,
delivery, preparation through to being eaten. As a result there are many opportunities
for it to become contaminated. In this section we look at legislation in place that
relates to food hygiene and safety.
- Food Safety Hazards and Contamination - exploring food safety hazards and
how they arise and consider how they can be prevented and controlled.
- Food Preservation, Storage and Temperature Control - how to manufacture and
preserve food, including appropriate storage and temperature controls.
- Personal Hygiene - this section looks at why personal hygiene is so important
when working with food, covering hand washing, health, first aid. protective clothing
and appearance.
- Hygienic Premises and Equipment - this section looks at good housekeeping
and the part premises and equipment design play in maintaining clean, pest-free
conditions.
- Hazards Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) - it is a requirement
of regulations that all businesses implement and maintain a documented Food Safety
Management system based on HACCP. This section looks at what this involves.
This Food Safety and Hygiene for Manufacturing module is aimed at anyone working in a manufacturing or
processing environment, small or large, which could include food factories, meat cutting plants,
dry goods and vegetable packing, dairies, breweries and bottling plants.
When you have successfully completed your course and attained the 75% required test pass, you
will receive a City & Guilds Accredited Certificate. Our Certificates are of extremely high
quality and carry an authorisation seal. The certificate should be displayed to show appropriate training has taken place.
The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to
universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
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