Highfield Level 3 Award in Food Safety in Manufacturing

What’s It About?

This Level 3 Food Safety in Manufacturing course will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of food safety. It will also help you to examine everyone’s roles in maintaining high standards within a food manufacturing environment.

The course is designed to provide you with a detailed knowledge of food safety principles. This is achieved by teaching you to identify potential hazards to food safet

What Will You Gain?

By attending this Level 3 Food Safety in Manufacturing course, you will have the skills and confidence to manage food safety within your food manufacturing operation.

Through information, instruction and on-the-job training you will ensure your team are able to identify, prevent and control any potential food safety hazards.

You will also be able to communicate your knowledge to everyone in your team, ensuring that they take appropriate corrective action where necessary.

In conclusion, you will understand the importance of training staff in good food hygiene practices. You will be able to take responsibility for, and effectively manage, all aspects of food safety within your business.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone responsible for managing people within a food manufacturing business.  It is also ideal for anyone who has a responsibility for your HACCP system.

This Level 3 Food Safety in Manufacturing course will enable you to deliver basic food hygiene training to other members of your team. You will also need to have suitable experience and teaching qualification such as the Level 3 Award in Delivering Training course.

Why’s It Important?

The Food Safety Act 1990 and the Food Hygiene Regulations state that your employees responsible for developing and maintaining your food safety management procedures must be appropriately trained.

Therefore, managers and supervisors should receive a more advanced level of training. The training should highlight their specific responsibilities associated with supervising and managing a safe food operation.

Firstly, the training will develop an understanding of what the principles of effective food safety management procedures are. It will also demonstrate how these procedures are incorporated into daily working practices. Secondly, it will explain what the key processes are and how they are implemented into the business.

Key Topics

• An introduction to food safety

• Microbiology

• Common foodborne illnesses

• Cross contamination

• Food safety hazards and control measures

• Supervising personal hygiene

• Safe storage

• Temperature control

• Food spoilage

• Preservation

• Design and construction

• Cleaning and disinfection

• Pest management

• Supervision of food safety

• HACCP and food safety management systems

• Food safety training and coaching

• Food safety culture

• Certification scheme and customer codes of practice

• Food safety legislation