Food Safety In Catering
When it comes to the kind of ideal food safety training Blackpool clients are looking for offer a wide range of training courses – from general awareness to internationally recognised NEBOSH qualifications.
Our class room based courses are also supported by a wide portfolio of eLearning courses.
We are a City & Guilds and Highfield approved training centre.
All our courses can be delivered at our state of the art training facilities or at your premises.
Food Safety – Level 2 : Highfield ABC Accredited Short Course
This qualification is ideal for anyone working or beginning to work in the catering and hospitality industry. Subjects covered include hazards and controls, food hygiene management and temperature controls, food poisoning control, personal hygiene, cleaning and disinfection, food pests, and the role of the food handler in keeping food safe. The HABC Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering (QCF) is accredited and recognised internationally and has been developed to protect customers, brand reputation and profits.
How The Course Works
Group activities, discussion, workbooks and practical workshop.This course is assessed by a multiple choice exam. Participants will be able to understand the importance of:
– Personal responsibility for food hygiene
– Personal hygiene and cleanliness
– Keeping work areas clean and hygienic
– Keeping food safe
Benefits For The Individual
– Nationally recognised qualification
– Improved knowledge of Food Safety
– Improve performance in your role
– Improve your career prospects
Benefits For Employers
– Ensures staff are fully competent
– Staff provide a better quality service
– Provides a high quality workforce
– Enhances company reputation
What’s Next?
Individuals achieving this qualification can then progress onto any of the HABC Level 3 Food Safety qualifications.
Course Essentials
Course Duration – 1 day
Course Fee – £50 plus VAT per person
To book, please call 01253 806916
Food Safety – Level 3 : Highfield ABC Accredited Short Course
This qualification is ideal for anyone with supervisory or management responsibilities in the catering and hospitality industry.
Qualification Overview & Objective
The objective of this qualification is to support a role in the workplace and give learners personal growth and engagement in learning.
The qualification is designed for learners who wish to progress to higher or supervisory level within a food catering business.
Topics include ensuring compliance with food safety legislation, the application and monitoring of good hygiene practice, how to implement food hygiene management procedures and the application and monitoring of good practice regarding contamination, microbiology and temperature control.
Who Requires This Qualification?
Supervisors/managers and future supervisors and managers.
The training of food handlers is a legal requirement, and the key to profitability and high standards of food safety is to train supervisors and managers and ensure their competency.
Course Essentials
Course Duration – 3 days
Course Fee – £175 plus VAT per person
To book, please call 01253 806916
These notes are for initial guidance only. Please ensure all staff involved in food preparation and food processing receive practical, accredited and certificated training in food safety.
Food Safety Podcasts
From Food Safety Magazine Podcasts
The Right Way To Clean and Sanitise – Part 1
The Right Way To Clean and Sanitise – Part 2
Food Safety Management Systems & HACCP
This article first appeared here
In January 2006, a new food hygiene regulation act was passed governing the UK and EU, stating that ALL UK Food and Drink businesses must put in place a Food Safety Management System based on HACCP principles, plus keep up-to-date records of its operation.
HACCP, for the uninitiated stands for ‘Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points’ and is an approach to safe food production originally pioneered by NASA during the space race.
What Businesses Does It Cover?
The regulations comprise ‘Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004’ on the hygiene of foodstuffs, and ‘The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006’, plus equivalent regulations in Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.
This legislation simplified and replaced all the previous UK/EU food hygiene legislation, and placed greater emphasis on the use of HACCP and more effective controls throughout the food chain and especially, food safety training Blackpool, Fleetwood and Lytham.
Failure to comply with this law can result in fines, temporary and even permanent closure of your food or drink business. It’s also really about ‘due diligence’; in the event of a customer death from food poisoning from your business (and it happens) you are able to demonstrate that you took ‘all reasonable efforts’ to ensure safe food was being produced. Having a working Food Safety Management System would show you to have observed due diligence, and should dramatically lower the risks of a serious incident, and save you a corporate manslaughter charge if something still does go wrong.
Do You Have A Working Food Safety Management System?
So, in essence if you own or manage a food or drink business (including pub, bar, deli, cafe, sandwich shop, or restaurant…), since 2006 you should have been operating a Food Safety Management System (FSMS), and be able to prove it through daily/weekly/monthly records when asked by your Environmental Health Officer.
If you are a business in Blackpool, Fleetwood and Lytham and you already have a working FSMS based on HACCP principles congratulations, you’re operating within the law and the terms of your licence in the UK. If not, you need one, but you’re not on your own as the majority of food businesses have not fully implemented a verifiable system. Why? Until recently it was not being routinely policed by the Environmental Health Officer (EHO) teams. Enforcement in the past has been typically limited to the free guide developed by the government to introduce the idea of an FSMS within a catering business. This has now been dropped after suggestions that it did not offer sufficient practical advice, knowledge or directed help on the actual implementation of a FSMS, nor did it provide any actual usable documentation or HACCP templates.
The UK Enforcement Picture – July 2010
Back in 2006 when the new hygiene legislation first applied, the European Commission committed itself to providing a report by May 2009 on uptake in all Member States as regards the progress of the legislation. This report was published in July 2009, indicating that take up has not fully occurred and a more rigorous enforcement (with everything this entails) was required. Also that (perhaps unsurprisingly) this period had seen a significant increase in food poisoning cases reported by members of the public including the towns of Blackpool, Fleetwood and Lytham.
Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) nationally are now specifically tasked with driving the implementation of the legislation, and it’s more than likely that if you’re a food business in the UK that your local EHO will be visiting anytime now and will specifically be asking to see evidence of a working Food Safety Management System incorporating HACCP principles.
As part of this, the government has recently introduced the Score on the Doors scheme, in effect a name and shame publication of the hygiene performance of ALL food businesses in the UK, awarding a rating between zero and five stars. Their objective is 100% compliance with the Law and to drive food standards higher using the scores system.
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