Food Safety & Hygiene Level 2 for Catering - City & Guilds Accredited

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 prepared and served.
• 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 preserve food, including appropriate storage and temperature controls.
• 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.
• 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 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.

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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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 (If successfully completed before 12:00 noon Monday-Friday. Weekend completers will have their certificates posted on Monday).

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