More than 1 million cases of food poisoning are reported each year in the UK alone

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 50m

Learning outcomes

  • Learn about and show commitment to The Food Hygiene Regulations 2006
  • Understand cleanliness and how to avoid cross contamination when working with food
  • Learn about food poisoning and and how the food can become contaminated

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 4 sections

  1. 1
    Introduction to Food Safety
  2. 2
    Personal Hygiene
  3. 3
    Cleaning
  4. 4
    Storage, Temperature & Time

About this course

Our Food hygiene level 1 training course is ideal for beginners working in food handling and preparation. 1 in 10 people fall ill each year due to contaminated food. This number would be drastically reduced if everyone working with food completed an approved food safety & hygiene training course – It is essential that anyone who works where food is made, prepared or sold has a good understanding of food hygiene, even if they do not handle food.

Comprehensive health and safety training is a legal requirement for those working with consumables: Food Safety and Hygiene Level 1 provides a good understanding of food hazards and food poisoning; covering contamination, personal hygiene, cleanliness in the food preparation area, and the storage and temperature of food. It also looks at waste disposal and food pests.

Whether you operate in Catering, Hospitality, or Retail, our online food hygiene level 1 course explains the hazards associated with poor food hygiene, and what to do to keep food safe. Ensure best practice and work towards legal compliance in just 50 minutes.

Our course is broken down into 4 easy-to-follow sections: an introduction to food safety, personal hygiene, cleanliness and cross-contamination, the storage of food and time and temperature controls.

Want to build on level 1 training or require level 2 training? We also provide IOSH Approved Food Safety and Hygiene Level 2 training.

This course is not a formal RQF food safety & hygiene qualification, the levels indicate the type of course so that businesses can choose whom it is suitable for.

The importance of Food Hygiene Level 1 Training Course

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

Food Safety & Hygiene Level 1 certificate

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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Food Safety and Hygiene Training – Level 1 course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Food Safety & Hygiene Level 1 Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

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Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Food Hygiene Regulations 2006

These regulations set out the basic hygiene requirements for all food businesses, from premises and equipment to staff training and hygiene. Critically, proof of appropriate practice and staff training are required by law.

Based on Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament, the following legislation applies to all organisations handling foodstuffs for human consumption:

Food business operators are to ensure that food handlers are supervised and instructed and/or trained in food hygiene matters commensurate with their work activity

Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, Chapter 12, Section 1

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