Training Courses available:
Food Safety, Level 1 |Food Safety, Level 2 |Food Safety, Level 3 |Health and Safety in the Workplace, Level 2
H.M.Training is registered with the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. Registered Centre number 58309.
Food Safety, Level 1 - for Catering, Manufacturing, Retail.
These qualifications will benefit anyone looking to, or working in a situation where there is food. The training programme focuses on the information that employees need to know before they start to work in a food environment or as part of induction.
Successful completion of the training programme and assessment will enable candidates to understand:
- How to keep themselves clean and hygienic
- How to keep their work area clean
- The role they play in reducing contamination
The training time to cover the syllabus must be at least three hours and is typically covered in half a day.
The candidates are assessed by an examination paper consisting of 15 multiple choice questions. Candidates who achieve 10 or more correct answers will pass the examination and receive a certificate.
Food Safety, Level 2 - for Catering, Manufacturing, Retail
These qualifications will benefit anyone working in a situation where food is prepared, cooked and served, or sold.
Level 2 is the qualification that most employers in food businesses would be looking for potential employees to hold. This is a relatively new qualification and replaces the Foundation in Food Hygiene.
Successful completion of the training programme and assessment will enable candidates to understand:
- The terminology used in food safety
- The laws that apply to businesses and food handlers, and should be able to describe, in general terms, the requirements of the current regulations
- The concepts off food hazards and how the risk of food poisoning can be contained
- How to take product and equipment temperatures
- How a reduction in storage temperature will minimise bacterial multiplication
- The importance of high temperatures in the supply of safe food
- That food handlers can pose a risk to food safety
- The importance of utilising appropriate storage conditions for different types of food
- The importance of cleaning in food premises
- The need for high standards for structure and equipment to promote good hygiene in food premises
The training time to cover the syllabus must be at least six hours and is typically covered in one day.
The candidates are assessed by an examination paper consisting of 30 multiple choice questions. Those who achieve 20 or more correct answers will pass the examination and receive a certificate.
Food Safety, Level 3 - Award in Implementing Food Safety Management Procedures
This one day training programme provides a thorough understanding of how HACCP based procedures (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) can be applied in a catering context.
It is applicable for owners, managers and supervisors of small and medium sized catering businesses.
Assessment is by assignment based on a case study.
Health and Safety in the Workplace, Level 2
This qualification will benefit anyone in a work environment as it provides candidates with an understanding of health and safety that will enable them to contribute to any risk- assessment based health and safety management system.
Successful completion of the training programme and assessment will enable candidates to understand:
- Health and safety requirements placed on employers and employees
- Hazard and risk and the main causes of harm to workers
- Health, safety and welfare provisions in the workplace
- The importance of following safe systems of work, procedures and rules
- Hazards and controls in respect to both safety and occupational health hazards
- How their own actions can reduce risks to health and safety
The training time to cover the syllabus must be at least six hours and is typically covered in one day.
The candidates are assessed by an examination paper consisting of 30 multiple choice questions. Those who achieve 20 or more correct answers will pass the examination and receive a certificate
