Food Safety & Hygiene – Level 1 - Online Learning

1 in 10 people fall ill each year due to contaminated food. This number would be drastically reduced if everyone working with food completed an approved food safety & hygiene training course - It is essential that anyone who works where food is made, prepared or sold has a good understanding of food hygiene, even if they do not handle food.

Comprehensive health and safety training is a legal requirement for those working with consumables: Food Safety and Hygiene Level 1 provides a good understanding of food hazards and food poisoning; covering contamination, personal hygiene and cleanliness in the food preparation area. It also looks at safe storage and waste disposal.

Whether you operate in Catering, Hospitality or Retail, this programme explains the hazards associated with poor food hygiene, and what to do to keep food safe. Ensure best practice and work towards legal compliance in just 45 minutes. 

Our course is broken down into 3 easy-to-follow sections: the hazards with handling food and food poisoning, personal hygiene and looking at cleanliness and cross-contamination when working with food.

Want to build on level 1 training or require level 2 training? We also provide Food Safety and Hygiene Level 2 training. 

Learning outcomes

• Learn about and show commitment to The Food Hygiene Regulations 2006
• Understand cleanliness and how to avoid cross contamination when working with food
• Learn about food poisoning and how the food can become contaminated

This course is made up of 3 sections and a test. You must complete all sections of the course in order to access the test. 

• Introduction 
• 1. Hazards & Poisoning 20 mins 
• 2. Personal Hygiene 9 mins 
• 3. Cleanliness and Cross Contamination 13 mins 
• Test 3 mins 

SECTION 1

This section is all about food poisoning. It's really important, even if you don't handle food, that you understand how food becomes contaminated, what the main symptoms are and how to avoid the dangers.

SECTION 2

People are one of the most serious hazards in the food industry because people carry bacteria. This section is all about good personal hygiene, looking at washing hands, what you wear and what you should do if you're ill and your illness could be passed onto others through food. A step-by-step guide shows you exactly how you should wash your hands!

SECTION 3

Cleanliness in food preparation areas covers things like tidying as you go, keeping work surfaces clean and how-to wash-up properly. Cross-contamination - this is where harmful bacteria are spread from one thing - such as food, surfaces, hands or equipment - onto something else, simply by touching. And cross-contamination can happen at any point during the food process, so here we include correct storage of food and disposal of waste.