Food Safety Training
Food Safety & Hygiene Level 2 for Catering - Test online and Certificate posted same day* - £25 + VAT
* If successfully completed before 12:00 noon Monday-Friday. Weekend completers will have their certificates posted on Monday.
Catering Course Overview
EU Regulation 852/2004 Hygiene for Foodstuffs requires Food Businesses to make sure that any staff who handles food are supervised, instructed and trained in Food Hygiene in a way that is appropriate to the work they do.
This module is a self-study course (formerly known as Foundation or Basic Food Hygiene) and maps to the UK National Occupational Standards in Food Safety and Hygiene at level 2 as published by People 1st, the Sector Skills Council for the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism industries. This course is aimed at anyone working in catering or hospitality whether employed or self employed, working in restaurants, hotels, fast food outlets, takeaways, cafes, bars, kitchens, catering in hospitals, schools and colleges. It allows every catering business, regardless of size, to provide all staff with first class training at a fraction of the cost and disruption of classroom based training.
Upon completion of this online training material learners will sit an online test and on successful completion, will receive a Level 2 Certificate in Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering meeting the legal training required, which must then be applied to work situations.
The training and test usually take between 2 to 3 hours to complete (depending on learning speed), which is equivalent to 6 hours face-to-face group training. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may re-sit the test at no extra cost, having revisited the training material. Certificates will be posted within 2 working days of a successful test pass.
Produced by Virtual College in association with Food Safety experts 'Food Dialog' a registered Training Centre with the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).We have made every effort to make the training friendly, understandable and as down to earth as possible.
On completion of this course learners should understand:
- Why food safety training is important
- Their personal and legal responsibilities
- The impact of food borne illness
- How food becomes contaminated
- How to prevent contamination through good hygiene practices
- How to control contamination through safe temperatures and storage
- How to control food safety hazards at critical control points using a HACCP based Food Safety Management System
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Course Details
Lesson Plan
The sections covered include:
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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 prepared and served.
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Impact of Food-Borne Illness - looking at what food-bourne illnesses are and how they affect us.
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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.
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Food Safety Hazards and Contamination - exploring food safety hazards and how they arise and consider how they can be prevented and controlled.
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Food Preservation, Storage and Temperature Control - how to preserve food, including appropriate storage and temperature controls.
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Personal Hygiene - this section looks at why personal hygiene is so important when working with food - from hand washing to legal requirements.
- Hygienic Premises and Equipment - this section looks at good housekeeping and the part premises and equipment design play in maintaining clean, pest-free conditions.
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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.
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Target Audience
This food safety and hygiene module is aimed at anyone working in a role that involves contact with food, or the management of such people; regulations require that anyone involved in food handling must be appropriately trained in food safety. The module can be used either as Induction, Awareness, Refresher and Foundation Training.
Certification
On successful completion of this course you will join over 15,000 other learners to be awarded the Virtual College/Food Dialog Level 2 Certificate in Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering that meets your legal training requirements. The certificate should be displayed to show appropriate training has taken place.
CPD Accreditation
The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
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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 on-line 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 (If successfully completed before 12:00 noon Monday-Friday.
Weekend completers will have their certificates posted on Monday).
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.
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