Level 2 Certificate in Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering

Learn to ensure food safety and hygiene in the Level 2 Certificate in Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering course.

A food safety hazard is a biological, chemical, or physical agent, or condition of food with the potential to cause harm or an adverse health effect at the time of consumption. The course is designed for the people who handle, prepares or serves food in the catering industry.

Throughout the course, you will understand the Food Safety Act and Legislation so that you can maintain food safety based on the Act. The course covers the strategies of controlling food safety hazards, controlling temperatures, food storage, food preparation, personal hygiene and premises cleaning. You will learn how to work safely so that you can protect the food you serve from contamination.

By the end of the course, you will be able to work confidently in an environment where you have direct contact with open food.

The course helps you to improve your knowledge of handling food in a catering environment. You will able to ensure food hygiene while preparing or distributing the food. The legal requirements to prepare and serve food in the service industry will also be explained in the course. The hazards can be of three types:

• Physical
• Chemical
• Biological

The course discusses all these types of features along with the sources of these hazards. Apart from these, you will learn about HACCP, the multiple levels of hazards and their preventive measures. Finally, the ways of ensuring safety and preventing different types of hazards will be discussed in the course.

Key features of the course:

• Lifetime access to the course
• No hidden fees, only pay the price of the course which includes exam fees.
• Recognised qualification upon successful completion of the course
• Study from anywhere, anytime, whenever it is convenient for you.
• Affordable and engaging e-learning study materials
• Study at your own pace from tablet, PC or smartphone
• Online tutor support when you are in need.

What Will You Learn?:

• Know the Food Safety Act and Legislation that regulates the production, trade and handling of food and covers the regulation of food control, food safety and relevant aspects of food trade.

• Understand the legal responsibilities and know what constitutes best practice in regards to controlling food safety hazards, controlling temperatures, food storage, food preparation, personal hygiene, etc.

• Understand Hazard Analysis And Critical Control Point (HACCP) so that you can address food safety through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption of the finished product.
• Know about the various types of hazards such as physical, chemical and allergenic hazards.
• Understand some of the common physical hazards and know the factors that determine the risk level.
• Get insights into the types of chemical hazards: naturally occurred, intentionally added, and unintentionally added.
• The source of the chemical hazards such as the use of pesticides, fertilizers, equipment components like copper pipe fittings, food colourings, preservatives, etc.
• Know the control measures for physical, chemical and biological hazards.
• The procedures for preventing Physical, Chemical and Biological hazards will be discussed in the course.
• Know about the Operational Standards for food hygiene.
• Know how to prepare food and control the temperature.
• Ensure your personal hygiene.
• Learn to design Food Premises and know to maintain cleaning schedules.

COURSE CURRICULUM

• Complying with the Food Safety Act
• Principles of HACCP
• Understanding food poisoning
• Food contamination and allergenic hazards
• Maintaining food safety standards
• Temperature control, reheating, cooling and holding
• The importance of good personal hygiene
• Establishing a cleaning rota
• Learn more

Assessment and Certification

The course is assessed online with a multiple-choice test, which is marked automatically. You will know instantly whether you have passed or not. Those who pass this test will have the qualification of Level 2 Certificate in Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering Course. Certificate will be produced in PDF format at an additional cost and sent by email.

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.