Essential Skills

Food Safety

What the course covers:

  • The Law
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)
  • Hazards
  • Pathogenic bacteria
  • Controlling bacterial growth
  • Food poisoning/ avoiding food poisoning
  • Handling practices and temperature controls relating to food
  • High risk and low risk foods
  • Cross contamination
  • Common faults in food safety
  • Cleaning and disinfection
  • Storage
  • Consequences of good and poor food safety

How this course can be completed:

  • Classroom: this course can be completed as a half-day course in a classroom environment, which lasts approximately 2.5 learning hours. Often a more time and cost-effective way of completing this is to follow it up with our Infection Control course, which also lasts approximately 2.5 learning hours.
  • Webinar: this course can be completed as part of our Food Safety & Infection Control webinar, which lasts approximately 2 learning hours.
  • E-Learning: this course can be completed on our online learning platform, Bridge. We estimate the e-learning course should take no longer than 2 hours to complete.

How to book on to a course:

      Creative Support staff – You can find dates for this course on our webinar rota. To book on to a course, please complete an
      application form

      Participants from other organisations – Please complete this application form or contact James Perkins at:       

      james.perkins@creativesupport.co.uk // 07972 735 378

How to request a course for your service:

To request an additional course for your service, please complete the Extra Training Request Form. This is an online form. Once submitted, this will be sent to our training coordinators who will be in touch with more information.