Food Safety & Hygiene Level 2 for Catering - City & Guilds Accredited
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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.
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
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.
CPD Accreditation
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.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
4 easy steps
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 successful completion of the course and assessment, if you have purchased the self-print option
your certificate will be ready to download and print from within the Learning Management System. If
you have purchased the posted certificate option, the system will automatically send a message to
our support team who will post your certificate first class within one working 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.
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
Industry Standards in Food Safety and Hygiene 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 City & Guilds Accredited Level 2 Certificate in Food Safety and Hygiene
for Catering meeting the legal training required, which must then be applied to work situations.
We now offer two certificate options for our Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety Courses. You can
choose either the self-printed certificate to reduce costs, or if you prefer we will print and post a high
quality certificate that carries a foil authorisation seal. Certificates will be posted on same day as a
successful test pass if completed before 12 noon Monday to Friday, or next working day.
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.
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
