Food Hygiene
Great location - Ashfield Club - 50m from Ashfield train station with free all day off street parking.
Onsite training also available.
This course is also known as the Food Handlers Certificate Course.
Personal hygiene practices apply to all personnel operating at all levels within the hospitality and retail food industry.
This course provides the skills and knowledge to follow predetermined hygiene procedures, to identify and control simple hazards and take particular hygiene measures to ensure the non-contamination of food.
Food safety is nationally legislated by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 which provides for the operation of a statutory authority known as Food Standards Australia New Zealand. The Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, (the Code), developed by this authority contains an individual standard for food safety practices. A large component of that standard deals with the health and hygiene of food handler’s, customers, colleagues and self.
- Kitchen hands
- Cooks
- Chefs
- Catering staff
- Food and beverage attendants
- Housekeeping and laundry staff
- Sandwich hands
- Cafe and fast food outlet cooking crew
- Owner-operators of small business catering operations or retail food outlets
- Tour operators
Prerequisites
- Food legislation and regulations
- Identifying hygiene hazards and risk
- Personal health issues and reporting
- Contamination
- Procedures including handwashing, pest control and cleaning
- Food poisoning
This course encourages discussion and interaction through group exercises. Competency is assessed both through written and oral activities and by successfully completing a written assessment at the conclusion of training. The assessments are conducted in English.
Key Skills Training provides access to learning support services and resources to assist participants achieve the course learning outcomes. If you believe that you may have difficulty completing the assessment due to English being your second language, or you have literacy or numeracy issues, please contact us prior to undertaking the course so we can assist you with preparation.
The course closes for entry 10 minutes after the scheduled start time. If you are more than 10 minutes late you will not be admitted and a rescheduling fee of 50% of the full course fee applies to book another course date.
You will need to bring
A black pen.
Dress
Casual comfortable / No singlets.
Covered shoes.
This course is a pre requisite to : SITXFSA001A - Implement Food Safety Procedures
Course Dates
There are no dates currently scheduled for this programme. You can request a corporate booking or send us a message with the form below to get more information or details on alternate courses.
