Maximising Safety and Minimising Risk with Foundation Food Safety
Foundation Food Safety provides the training required by law for anyone who is working in a role relating to food handling, preparation or cooking within the care sector. The e-learning course follows the Level 2 syllabus set by the Food Standards Agency, and is currently the most widely used training for Food Safety in the UK.
Foundation Food Safety offers a host of benefits and features:
- Meets all the legal occupational standards in food safety.
- Delivers cost effective training to a consistent standard.
- Improves staff training which leads to better audits and inspections from officers and a higher level of service.
- Reduces (or eliminates) the risk of food poisoning outbreaks and food complaints in care homes.
- Shows ‘real life’ examples making the training relevant to the learner.
- Fully interactive content helps learners retain information and apply it in practical work situations.
- Overcomes barriers to using e-learning in the workplace by using our tablet PC, the el-box™ which provides a fun and easy platform for learning.
Course Contents
Foundation Food Safety is divided into 15 modules. Course duration is 6-9 hours and requires no prior knowledge of Food Safety or IT Skills.
Course modules:
- Introduction
- Food hygiene
- Bacteria
- Food poisoning
- The prevention of food poisoning
- Contamination hazards
- Purchase to service
- Food spoilage
- Personal hygiene
- Construction and design of premises
- Equipment for handling food
- Pest recognition and control
- Cleaning and disinfection
- HACCP
- The law relating to food safety
"Brewers Fayre now has the highest food safety scores in Whitbread, with no prosecutions on food safety over the past year. The el-box food safety training is directly responsible for this."
David Goodson, Head of Learning & Development, Whitbread Group PLC