Level 1 Food Safety – Catering

Level 1 Food Safety – Catering

Level 1 Food Safety – Catering

Awareness of Food Safety Risks: Understanding the different food safety issues that can arise in catering settings, including biological and chemical hazards, and learning how to identify and mitigate these risks.

Safe Food Handling: Learning the proper techniques for handling food in catering settings to minimize the risk of foodborne illnesses, including handwashing and proper food storage temperatures.

Personal Hygiene: Understanding the importance of personal cleanliness in the catering business and its impact on food safety, including wearing clean clothes and avoiding behaviors that could contaminate food.

Cleaning and Sanitizing: Learning the essential practices for cleaning and sanitizing food service areas and equipment to maintain a clean and safe catering environment.

By covering these topics, the course aims to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain high standards of food safety in catering, ensuring the safety of the food served to customers.

 

Lessons

  1. Module 1: Food Safety Legislation

    What is food safety and its significance? Food safety is termed as the preparation, handling, and storing of food routinely, to prevent foodborne diseases and health damages. It is considered as a chain starts from farm to factory to fork.
  2. Module 2: Hazards from delivery to service

    It is important to understand that what are the potential hazards and where it comes from? particularly when you are cooking and serving food to someone else. When you learn how food can become contaminated, you can take preventive measures against it.
  3. Module 3: Risk Control (Prevention of Contamination)

    Food poisoning happens when adequate numbers of bacterial types and their toxins are present in your food. These bacteria are commonly called as pathogens.
  4. Module 4: Pests, Premises and People

    Food can be contaminated at any point. Pest management is one of the most important and challenging tasks. Different variety of pests such as rodents, cockroaches, flies are the primary culprits behind the contamination of food supply.