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Food safety training is essential for anyone who serves food and drink to the public. There are certain steps that need to be taken to protect customers from microbiological hazards. Our Food Safety Level 1 e-learning course covers these steps in a fun, interactive and highly memorable way.

Course summary

If you work with or around food, you have a responsibility to ensure that anything served to your customers is safe to eat. Our Food Safety Level 1 course takes users on an interactive journey through the fundamentals of food hygiene.

The engaging illustrations and interactive elements are designed to help users remember critical food safety information in line with UK legislation. They will learn everything from the most common hazards to look out for, to the best ways of avoiding contamination.

This is an essential learning tool for anyone who serves food and drink in any environment. For catering, please see Food Safety Catering Level 2, and for retail, please see Food Safety Retail Level 2.

Learning outcomes

Once they’ve completed this course, users should be able to:

  • Identify the main hazards present in kitchens
  • Know how to organise equipment to avoid these risks
  • Be aware of the risks of cross-contamination and how to avoid it
  • Understand the benefits of cleaning properly
  • Cook to the appropriate temperatures
  • Understand their obligations under law

Course benefits

Our Food Safety Level 1 course is designed to help businesses protect their employees in an efficient, cost-effective way. With easy-to-understand information and interactive illustrations, users will be able to build and test their knowledge to safeguard the public while serving food and drink.

Key benefits include:

  • Cost-effective way of training staff
  • Saves valuable time and resources
  • Users can complete the courses at a pace that suits them
  • Provides automatic email reminders to prompt users to complete course
  • Police-approved secure platform with hourly data backups encrypted with AES-256 encryption
  • Interactive, visual learning
  • Easy-to-digest information
  • Peace-of-mind for employers
  • Potential reduction in health and safety issues related to food and drink

Course duration

15-45 minutes

Modules

  • Introduction
  • Microbiological hazards
  • Cross-contamination
  • Cleaning
  • Chilling
  • Cooking
  • Hygiene and housekeeping
  • Summary
  • Take the test
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