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 hospitality and leisure industries. The e-learning course follows the National Occupational Standards (NOS) developed by People 1st, the Sector Skills Council for the hospitality industry. It is currently the most widely used training for Food Safety in pubs, bars, restaurants, hotels and leisure centres throughout the UK.
Foundation Food Safety offers a host of benefits and features:
For employers:
- Meets all the legal occupational standards in food safety.
- Delivers flexible and 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 at premises.
- Full training records available from anywhere at anytime through the automated management system.
- Overcomes barriers to using e-learning in the workplace by using our tablet PC, the el-box™, which provides a fun, flexible and easy-to-use platform for learning.
For learners:
- Fully interactive content helps learners retain information and apply it in practical work situations.
- Allows learners to progress at their own pace, with no room for learning gaps.
- Shows ‘real life’ examples making the training relevant to the learner.
- Fully intuitive interface – no prior computer skills required.
- Portuguese and Polish language versions available.
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