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What’s this Food Safety Level 1 course all about?

Food Safety Level 1 – essential food and hygiene training for workplace compliance

Food safety is a constant concern for the public. It’s important your employees understand their roles and responsibilities.

Introduction to food safety

Learn key terms, food safety importance, hazards, and the costs and benefits of safety measures

Microbiological hazards

Understand bacteria and how to manage and reduce them

Food poisoning and its control

Learn about food poisoning, and the measures needed to prevent it

Contamination hazards and controls

The essentials of contamination control and how to implement preventative measures

Safe handling and the storage of food

It is an offence to sell alcohol to someone who is or who appears to be drunk

Personal hygiene

Ensure you observe high standards of personal hygiene

Food pests and pest control

Don’t let pests become a menace, find out how to prevent a pest problem

Cleaning and disinfection

Do you know how to effectively clean and disinfect your food preparation areas?

Who should take this Food Safety Level 1 course?

Ideal for employee inductions, existing staff at an introductory level, and low-risk food handlers. The course can also be used as part of the on-programme element of the apprenticeship standards, supporting the knowledge, skills and behaviours apprentices need to effectively integrate into a food business.

The ideal course for…

• new starters
  learning the basics of food safety
• all employees
  in a workplace to raise awareness of this subject area

Extend your knowledge…

• food servers
  would benefit from effective communication training
• kitchen staff
  should be equipped with essential allergen training

We also hold in person and Zoom courses – click here for details.