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Food Hygiene eLearning
Online food hygiene awareness training covering hazards, personal hygiene, cross-contamination and temperature control: the basics a food handler needs before their first shift.
Who it is for
Who this food hygiene course is for
Anyone who handles open food needs food hygiene training appropriate to their work. That covers far more roles than kitchens: care homes, schools, retail, mobile catering, and staff who prepare food in an office or a pub.
- Kitchen, catering and hospitality staff
- Care home and school catering teams
- Retail staff handling open food
- Mobile catering and event food staff
- Bar staff preparing food
- Supervisors responsible for food safety records
Course content
What the food hygiene course covers
Five short lessons covering food safety hazards, personal hygiene and fitness to work, cleaning and cross-contamination, temperature control, and records, then a 12-question assessment.
Food safety hazards
The four types of food safety hazard, food poisoning, and why food handlers have a legal duty to keep food safe.
Personal hygiene and fitness to work
Handwashing, clothing, jewellery and cuts, and why you must report illness before handling food.
Cleaning and cross-contamination
How bacteria spread from raw to ready-to-eat food, keeping them apart, and cleaning and disinfecting properly.
Temperature control
Keeping food out of the danger zone: chilling, cooking, cooling, reheating and hot holding.
Records and controls
Food safety management systems, HACCP principles in plain terms, and why accurate records matter.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Identify the four types of food safety hazard
- Apply personal hygiene standards, including reporting illness
- Prevent cross-contamination and clean effectively
- Use temperature control correctly for chilling, cooking and hot holding
- Complete food safety records and explain why they matter
Your legal duty
The law behind food hygiene training
Food businesses in England operate under the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013, with equivalent regulations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Food handlers must be supervised and instructed or trained in food hygiene matters appropriate to their work.
The law does not name a particular certificate or course. What it requires is that the training is appropriate to what the person actually does. That's why a level 2 awareness course suits most food handlers and why supervisors usually need more.
- Food Safety Act 1990
- Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013
- Equivalent regulations apply in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Training must be appropriate to the work, no specific certificate is named in law
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Where you need the level 2 course specifically, it is available separately.
For employers
Food Hygiene training for a team
Catering turnover is high and inspections are unannounced. An account lets you train new starters before their first shift and show the records on demand.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Food Hygiene eLearning: common questions
Food handlers must be supervised and instructed or trained in food hygiene matters appropriate to their work. The law does not name a specific certificate, but training is required.
This is awareness-level food hygiene training with a certificate on completion. Where you specifically need the level 2 course, that is available as a separate course.
Officers look for training appropriate to the role and for the food safety management system behind it. This course provides the training record; your procedures and monitoring still have to exist.
It covers allergenic hazards as one of the four hazard types. Detailed allergen management has its own course.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them. Completion reporting is included.
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