Essential Food Hygiene Course

Nationally recognised one-day training in food safety, certificate in basic food safety and hygiene

This basic food safety course is perfect if you're preparing, cooking or serving food. We cover everything you need to know so you can gain your basic food safety certificate from the Royal Society of Public Health.

Our high-quality food safety and hygiene courses will help you:

  • get your national food safety level 2 award
  • prepare, cook or serve food in your own or someone else's food or catering business
  • meet the standards needed by the food hygiene regulations
  • register your party catering business with your local authority

On our food safety course, you'll learn about the importance of food hygiene control and how to prevent food contamination, store food safely and rotate stock, how to recognise and deal with food pests, how food safety law affects you and much more.

Whether you're already in the food trade and need to learn more about the food handling regulations or wish to start up your own catering business, you're sure to benefit from our food safety courses.

Train at our venues or we'll come to you. Call us on: 0845 299 4049 or Contact Us to find out more.

Training at your workplace for a group of people.
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Let us come to you.

The cost of a course for up to twelve persons on your premises is £690 including VAT

Discounts available for smaller groups.

Please contact us to arrange times and dates.

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Tel: 0845 299 4049

Course Dates for IndividualsPrice (inc VAT)Book NowTraining Location
February 24th (Thursday) 2012 £112.50 (£135.00)
London


Food safety training course – background

You need food safety training if you work in catering, the food trade, your own food business or your own catering company even if the business is very small.

If you're running your own party catering business, you need to understand food hygiene laws and regulations and you must register with your local authority. Your local authority will check if you've an up-to-date food safety or food hygiene training certificate.

Our team of experienced, competent and supportive tutors can help you achieve your food safety qualification in a matter of weeks. We'll give you expert classroom tuition and guidance, as well as on-line support with written food safety assignments.

Train at our place or we'll come to you. Call us on: 0845 299 4049 or Contact Us to find out more.

What do you need for this food safety course?

  • ability to deal with written documents – i.e. read, understand, answer – with the help of a translator if needed
  • organisation skills 
Sample Food Safety / Hygiene Training Course Programme
1. Introduction to Food Safety
2. Hygiene control.
3. How to recognise and prevent food contamination
4. Food storage and temperature control
5. How to store food safely
6. How to rotate stock.
7. How to recognise and deal with food pests
8. Cleaning and disinfection - when to do it and how to do it.
9. The law and how it affects you
10. Questions and answers
11. Exam (optional)

What's next?

With a food safety certificate, you'll have a better chance of finding work in the food or catering sector or even expanding your own catering business.

We run food safety courses in London, Middlesex, Croydon, Guildford, Chelmsford, Milton Keynes, Chesterfield, Oxford, Slough, Swindon, Birmingham, Manchester, Essex, Peterborough, Leeds, Liverpool, Bradford, Sheffield, Blackpool, Leicester, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Brighton, Norwich, Newcastle, Cardiff, Bristol, Plymouth, Glasgow, Swansea, Reading, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Belfast, Oxfordshire, Warrington and Norwich.