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.
The certification process will depend on whether you have purchased the course with the
self-print certificate or the posted certificate.
If you have chosen the self-print option, then upon successfully completing your course,
your certificate will be available to print online through the Learning Management System.
If you have chosen the posted option, we will post out your certificate to you first class
within one working day. Our posted certificates are of extremely high quality, carry an
authorisation seal and will be pre-printed with your name.
We recommend that your certificate is displayed prominently as this helps your customers and
officials know that you have completed a quality training course.
The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to
universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
This course is Accredited by City & Guilds.
Note, this course is an
accredited training programme, should you require a full qualification you will be required to
undertake an additional assessment by visiting an accredited test centre at an additional cost.
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
Meet your legal obligations in only 4 easy steps:
Step 1 - Purchase the Course
Purchase the online course with your credit / debit card. You will receive an automatic
email with your unique username and password and step by step instruction on how
to access your learning.
Step 2 - Access the Course via our Custom LMS
Login to the system and away you go. The Virtual College Learning Management System
(LMS) will track your progress throughout, recording the information onto your learner
record, allowing you to fully understand how you are progressing. This also means
you do not have to undertake the learning all at once, because your progress has
been tracked you can revisit the material as often as you require. If you should
require technical assistance or support, the LMS has a built in feedback system
directly to our Support team.
Step 3 - Online assessment
The online assessment is provided through the LMS, on completion of the training
material the assessment will be activated. This consists of a series of questions
which are auto marked and you will know instantly if you have reached the 75% pass
mark required. If you fail the assessment, you should revisit the training material
to fill the gaps in your knowledge and then resit the assessment when you feel
you have reached the required level. There is no additional cost for resitting the assessment.
Step 4 - Certificate upon completion
On reaching the required pass mark, the system will automatically send a message
to our administration team who will validate your learning and a certificate will be posted
same day
You should ensure that you check that your name and address details
are correct on your learner record, as that is what will appear on your certificate.