Food Safety (Level 1 Course)

This course is designed to provide individuals that handle open food the essential knowledge and understanding of good Food Safety Practice. The aim of this training course is to provide candidates with a fundamental knowledge of food hygiene and to enable them to apply this knowledge to essential practical skills in order to prevent food poisoning.

This course will describe how to safely prepare and serve food, how to keep food and kitchen & dining areas clean, as well as how to avoid the spread of disease. 

The course level does not reflect any RQF equivalent qualification standards; they only indicate the type of course so that organisations can choose whom it is suitable for.

Learning Outcomes

Once completed you'll be able to...

• Demonstrate knowledge of the food safety to keep you and others safe
• Understand the importance of personal hygiene in relation to food preparation
• Understand the importance of organised cleanliness and waste
• Prevent contamination by learning about how it happens and ways to avoid it
• Prevent food poisoning  through an understanding of how it happens and tips to ensure it doesn’t 
• Be able to prove competency with a downloadable certificate
• Be able to refresh your knowledge as required
• Be well informed and equipped to stay safe

Course overview

Here’s what we’ll be covering in each lesson (each lesson is a maximum of 5 mins long, making it easy to quickly make fantastic progress, even if you only have a small amount of time each day).

Lesson 01 - Introduction to Food Safety

• The course kicks off here with what happens when food safety goes wrong
• Looks at some common food hazards,
• Where your responsibility for food safety lies and
• What food poisoning looks like and who is most at risk

Lesson 02 - Personal Hygiene

• Lesson 2 begins cleanliness
• It moves on to look at reporting illnesses and wounds
• Then finishes off with a look at clothing, what’s a help and a hindrance

Lesson 03 - Cleaning

• Lesson 3 begins with how cleaning keeps food safe
• The importance of following instructions
• The significance of cleaning schedules, waste storage & disposal and pest control

Lesson 04 - Contamination

• Lesson 4 begins with how food can become contaminated
• It goes on to look at how food should be handled to prevent contamination and the E. Coli guidelines
• It finishes with a look at the importance of time, temperature, storage and stock rotation in food safety

Lesson 05 - Food Poisoning Prevention

• Lesson 5 begins with explaining the importance of hand hygiene
• It demonstrates the need for separate chopping boards, rapid cooling of leftovers and emphasise the need to respect use-by dates

Final Test

Complete the final test to prove your knowledge.

(We understand that not everyone will pass the course the first time. If you don’t pass the course on your first attempt, don’t worry, you’ll be able to retake the course free of charge up to 6 times.

This Food Safety (Level 1) course is right for you if...

You are a worker who is not directly involved with the preparation or handling of high-risk foods but work in an environment where food is present or handled elsewhere. This also includes those who work with wrapped or pre-packaged foods. 

• Front of house employees
• Checkout staff
• Waiting staff
• Bar workers
• Food delivery drivers
• Kitchen porters
• Low-risk food retailers
• Warehouse staff
• You handle food as part of your daily work
• You’ve just started a new job or need refresher training on new practices
• You need to prove competence in this area

Enrol now and you'll instantly receive:

• 5 sharply focused lessons delivering a good, quality awareness of the subject.

• Unlimited access to the course. Take the course wherever and whenever you like.

• Certificate on completion.