Food safety: Handling and hygiene

Duration: 30 minutes

Overview: This course equips learners with essential knowledge and skills to maintain safe and hygienic practices while handling food. We discuss: 

1. What is food safety?
2. Hygiene for food handlers
3. Food handling techniques

For information about preventing contamination and allergies as well as safe storage practices in hospitality while handling food, you may wish to also complete our 'Food safety: Contamination, storage and allergies' course.

Why is this course important? It's important for those working with food to understand the essential knowledge and skills to ensure food safety. A lack of knowledge regarding food handling could lead to serious illness or allergic reactions for consumers.

Suitable for: For individuals working in the hospitality and food industry, including restaurant staff, caterers, food service providers and anyone involved in food preparation, storage and distribution.

Online Assessment: None

Workplace Activities: None

Disclaimer: In the event of discrepancy between this course and your workplace policies, your workplace policies should be applied. OmniaCapture is not responsible for you or anyone else for any loss suffered in connection with the use of this information. You should seek legal or other professional advice before acting or relying on any of the information contained in this course.