Food Safety covers HACCP and food hygiene

This "Food Safety Level One" course is ideal for anyone requiring a food hygiene certificate: food handlers, waiters, kitchen assistants, chefs.

Food Safety level one is aimed at large or small businesses and individual users. Food Safety has been built on the Royal Institute of Public Health's food hygiene syllabus. They have certificated this course.

This Food Safety course can be taken as part of key stage 4 Food Technology.

The course is broken down into an introduction, five modules and an assessment. The introduction presents the main principles of working hygienically. The remainder of the course expands and reinforces food safety skills, and includes an explanation of bacteria and the food safety scheme HACCP.

On passing the assessment a food hygiene certificate can be printed out. The certificate includes the RIPH logo as a mark of the quality of the course.

Food Safety's five main modules are:

• Module 1 - Food handling:
  Personal hygiene, washing hands, illness, cross contamination, raw and cooked food, chopping boards.
• Module 2 - Food poisoning:
  Bacteria, bacteriology, high risk foods, symptoms of food poisoning, toxins, microbiology.
• Module 3 - Food control:
  HACCP, Delivery of food, storage conditions, dry foods, temperature control, danger temperatures, freezing, reheating.
• Module 4 - Cleaning and waste:
  Cleaning fluids, protective clothing, waste management, pests.
• Module 5 - Complaints and law:
  Complaint procedures, legal consequences, fines, food poisoning complaints.