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Food Hygiene eLearning
Online level 2 food hygiene training covering the four Cs, temperature control and personal hygiene, the awareness 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
Six short modules covering the hazards, the four Cs, temperature control and the record-keeping an environmental health officer will ask about.
Food safety hazards
Microbiological, chemical, physical and allergenic hazards, and where each comes from.
Personal hygiene
Handwashing, illness reporting, clothing, jewellery and behaviour in food areas.
Cleaning
Cleaning and disinfection, schedules, and the difference between clean and safe.
Cross-contamination
Separation, colour coding, storage order and equipment handling.
Chilling and cooking
Temperature control, danger zone, cooking and reheating, cooling and hot holding.
Records and controls
Food safety management, monitoring, and what has to be recorded and kept.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Identify the four types of food safety hazard
- Apply personal hygiene standards, including illness reporting
- Prevent cross-contamination in storage and preparation
- Use temperature control correctly for chilling, cooking and hot holding
- Clean and disinfect effectively rather than only visibly
- Complete food safety records accurately
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
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
Where you need the level 2 course specifically, it is available separately. See Food Hygiene Level 2 →
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 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
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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