Food Hygiene Level 1
Food Hygiene Level 1
Our Food Hygiene Level 1 course covers all the basics on food preparation, regulations, precautions and care when preparing food for others. It is designed to meet the requirements of various regulations in food preparation and health and safety. The course covers regulations, preparation, storage, infections, cross contamination, reporting, PPE, date marks, reporting illness and basic first aid in the kitchen.
The certificate is valid for 3 years and can be taken fully online
Please click HERE to purchase the online course.
Occupations That Use This Course
- People not directly involved in food production
- Transport workers
- Shop staff
This course comes with 4.0 hours of CPD, although the time to complete the course online may be less than this. Total course time includes 1 hours and 1 minutes of video training as well as knowledge reviews, final test, remedial help and reviewing downloaded material.
The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.
Course Curriculum
- Introduction
- Relevant legislation
- Allergen Regulations 2014
- Bacteriology and Food Poisoning
- Bacteria and their Effects
- How we control bacterial growth
- Food Poisoning and allergic reactions
- Types of infections
- Poisons and food poisoning
- Food Contamination and personal Hygiene
- Cross contamination: Direct and Indirect
- Example of Indirect cross contamination
- Preventing cross contamination
- Bars and restaurants
- restaurant workers
- Clothing in food production
- Personal responsibilities at work
- illness, employers responsibility
- Personal Illness and exclusion from work
- Food Storage
- Use by and Best before dates
- Heating, refrigeration and freezing