Food Safety Handlers Training

Food Handlers Training – an online course designed to provide you with knowledge and awareness of food handlers, personal hygiene needs of food handlers, and how to maintain it in food establishments in order to improve food safety.

DESCRIPTION

This online Food Handlers Training course will be helpful for you to gain knowledge and understanding of the responsibilities of food handlers and their employers to maintain personal hygiene when working in any food premises and how to maintain personal hygiene when handling foods or their ingredients. Anyone involved in the manufacturing, collecting, extracting, processing, treating, packing, storing, transporting, delivering, thawing or preserving food must have the awareness of personal hygiene and basic knowledge of how to maintain this. Food safety awareness to the food handlers is very important and it is necessary to explain to them their role to create the food safety culture and best hygiene practices to keep food safety in an organization. Our course will be helpful for all such people as well as their employers and supervisors. The knowledge gained from this course will help in a long way to reduce contamination of food, increase food safety and consequently reduce food-borne illnesses in people at large. You can attend the training session/video tutorial as well as read supporting literature anytime from your office/workplace or from the comforts of your home. In a short time, this course will satisfy the training needs of individuals seeking a basic knowledge of personal hygiene requirements for food handlers in food sector organizations.

CONTENT COVERED IN FOOD HANDLERS TRAINING

This Food handlers training – online awareness course contains video tutorials recorded by experienced food safety management system implementers and trainers. For better understanding of the topics, handouts in .pdf formats are also provided as an easy download. Following are the key sessions include in this online course.

• Session 1: Basic Requirements to Achieve Food Safety
• Session 2: Personal Hygiene for Food Handlers
• Session 3: Food Premises Requirements for Food Safety
• Session 4: Cleaning and Sanitization Practices
• Session 5: Food Safety Hazards
• Session 6: Food Fraud – An Overview
• Session 7: Introduction to Food Allergy and Allergens
• Session 8: Pest Management

Each of the above eight sessions consists of modules such as video tutorial/lectures, hand-outs, and online exams as below:

1. Videos / Lectures:
   The video tutorials by food safety experts on important topics are covered in this food handlers training course. On the rest of the subjects, an audio-visual presentation is available on an online learning management platform, which gives detailed information about the subject.
2. Handouts:
   The handouts in PDF format for all of the above eight sessions are provided to the participants of this online food handlers awareness training course. The participants can download and save the handouts on their computer/laptop for better understanding and for future reference also. They can read the handouts offline, anytime, and anywhere.
3. Online Exams:
   The participants of this online course will be required to clear all eight session exams and one final exam, which are given as a part of the course. After successfully passing the final exam, his/her auto-generated Food Safety Handlers Training Certificate will be issued and can be downloaded and printed from the dashboard.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this online food handlers training course is to increase your knowledge and understanding of:

• Who are food handlers?
• Responsibilities of food handlers and their employers
• Hand hygiene for food handlers
• Health and further hygiene considerations like wounds and sores
• Food safety hazards and food allergens
• Food Fraud
• Protective clothing, gloves, etc., for food handlers
• Pest management and pest controls

WHO CAN ENROL IN THIS COURSE?

This course is for all those people who require or want to gain knowledge about personal hygiene of food handlers and how to maintain it in food establishments, food safety hazards, including food allergens, food premises design and construction, pest management and various methods of pest control. This course will also help all those who want to know about food fraud and its various forms.

 In particular, this course is useful for:

• Food handlers/ staff of any food business
• Supervisors/managers/ owners of food businesses
• Food safety team members
• Anyone who wants to know about the personal hygiene needs of a food handler
• Food handlers who want to know how to maintain personal hygiene.

PREREQUISITES

There is no prerequisite for joining this course; however, the following will be helpful for better understanding and utilization of this course:

• General awareness of personal hygiene and food safety.
• Ability to understand instructions in simple English.

STUDY MATERIALS

This e-Learning course is provided with study materials and you can read it after your log in or download (PDF format). Use the study materials to reinforce key points and to keep a reminder of what you already learned as well as you can save it in your computer for future reference. The access of this study material is removed after exam is cleared and on line certificate is prepared for the student.

EXAMINATION AND COURSE CERTIFICATE

This training program includes the Course Certificate that is issued upon course completion and passing the session exam as well as final exam given in the course with minimum 60% marks. The option to reappear in the exam is also given to student to get this course certificate

END OF COURSE INSTRUCTION

After completing the session and passing each session examination the student can appear for final exam. Once the final exam is cleared then it is considered a end of course. The training certificate is ready on our LMS and student can print it or save the training certificate. It is also available for verification by entering the name and certificate number.