Categories: CIEH Courses ,  Food and Drink ,  Food Hygiene & HACCP

Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering, Retail and Manufacturing

Who Should Attend?
This course has been re-designed in order to be more relevant to specific business environments and is suitable for anyone working in a catering, manufacturing or retail setting where food is prepared, cooked and handled.

Course Content
Introduction to food safety and what's in the news
The law
Food safety hazards
Temperature controls
Heat processing of food (manufacturing syllabus only)
Refrigeration, chilling and cold holding of foods (catering syllabus only)
Cooking, hot holding and re-heating of foods (catering syllabus only)
Food handlers
Principles of safe food storage
Cleaning
Food premises and equipment

Benefits of the Course
On completing this course candidates will understand:
The terminology used in food safety
The laws that apply to food businesses and food handlers
The concepts of food hazards and how the risk of food poisoning can be contained
How to take product temperatures
How a reduction in storage temperature will minimize bacterial multiplication
The importance of high temperatures in the supply of safe food
The role of heat processing in the production of safe food (manufacturing syllabus only)
That food handlers can pose a risk to food safety
The importance of cleaning in food premises
The need for high standards for structure and equipment to promote good hygiene in food premises

Duration
The duration of the course is 6 hours. We usually aim to start the course at 9.00am and therefore taking into account time for refreshment and lunch breaks, the course usually finishes around 4.30pm.

Assessment
There is a short multi-choice test at the end of the course. Candidates are required to correctly answer 20 out of 30 questions in order to achieve a Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering, Retail or Manufacturing. Test papers and course books are available in several different languages and tests can also be conducted orally. QCA Accredited

Entry Qualifications and Progression
There are no entry qualifications for this course. Following this course you might wish to consider the CIEH Level 3 Award in Implementing Food Safety Management Procedures or perhaps the CIEH Level 3 Award in Supervising Food Safety in Catering, Retail or Manufacturing .