The Essentials of Food Safety in Catering (Dyslexia Support)
Food safety is a critical part of any kitchen or food-handling environment. Whether you’re working in a restaurant, café, catering company, or even preparing food at home. Understanding how to handle, store, and prepare food safely helps protect your customers, your business, and your reputation.
This course will introduce you to the key principles of food safety, including proper hygiene practices, how to prevent food contamination, and how to safely manage food from delivery to service. You’ll learn about different types of food hazards, personal hygiene standards, cleaning and sanitising procedures, and how to respond to food safety incidents.
By the end of the course, you’ll be better equipped to work confidently and responsibly in any food handling role. Let’s get started on making food safe for everyone.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Describe the personal hygiene and safe food behaviours associated with handling food safely and explain the importance that good personal hygiene plays in preventing food contamination and food poisoning.
- Explain the importance in relation to food safety of maintaining a clean work environment and state the correct procedures for cleaning equipment and surfaces, storing chemicals, dealing with waste and controlling pests.
- Explain the correct procedures for receiving, storing and holding food safely and the impact of not following the correct procedures, state the correct temperatures at which various types of food should be stored.
- Define food poisoning and cross contamination and explain how food poisoning occurs. Identify the various types of food poisoning pathogens and describe the way in which humans contribute to cross contamination and food poisoning. Explain the term ‘danger zone’ and describe the ideal environment for pathogenic bacterial growth.
