The Online Level 2 Award Food Safety Catering was developed directly to meet the requirements of People 1st – Sector Skills Council for Hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism to ensure food safety qualifications meet the requirements and needs of employers.

Designed For: Anyone working in catering where food is prepared, stored and cooked such as hotels. restaurants, hospitals, care homes, prisons, schools, in fact any establishment or organisation where food is offered to members of the public. This course provides learners with a basic awareness of good hygiene and food safety in accordance with food industry recommendations. Therefore, course topics include directly dealing with food preparation, handling food, cooking and overall food safety requirements.

Aims: To educate all persons handling food for consumption by others to be aware of the health hazards and food safety rules for handling and preparing food and to provide a controlled working practice and good food protocols.

Course Content:

• Food Poisoning
• Bacteriology
• Prevention of Contamination
• Personal Hygiene
• Premises & Pest Control
• Cleaning & Disinfection
• The Law

Course Duration: The course lasts for approximately 3 hours from start to finish. In addition to this, it is possible to stop and start and complete the course is stages if required.

Assessment: Testing is continuous through the learning process. Furthermore, in the event of a question incorrectly answered the course would automatically take the learner back to the relevant section to ask the question again until correctly answered.

Certification: After the satisfactory conclusion of the course material, the student can download a certificate as evidence of the food safety course completion.