Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety in Retail Training Course

Our Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety in Retail Training course are for those who need to handle food. This online course covers food safety procedures, ensuring high standards are implemented and maintained for successful audits and inspections.

In today’s retail sector, food is sold from many outlets, not only traditional food shops. This could be supermarkets, open market stalls, take away outlets and also retailers who specialise in non-food items, such as garages. However all outlets must be pleasant for the customer and sell the food in a hygienic way.

Presenting food that is safe and protecting it from contamination requires training for the staff. Training is compulsory to ensure all staff know and understand the basics of food safety and how to handle food correctly.

This course is suitable for all staff, and is ideal as an induction course as many respected retail outlets now use the Level 2 Food Safety course as their company standard for training, irrespective of the food handled and sold. This course will be invaluable for all seeking to achieve BR Global Standards.

• Work towards compliance with UK & EU Food Safety and Hygiene Legislation
• Meet the UK training requirements for food handlers
• Train online at your own pace with a full audio voiceover
• Accredited by CPD
• Certificate on successful completion
• Course duration: 2.5 - 3 Hours
• Unlimited resits at no cost

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Who is this Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety in Retail Training for?

This course is for those working within the retail industry, ideal for those just starting out in their retail career, whether that is as a team member, kitchen porter or any other junior role. Other professions can include but are not limited to: fishmongers, butchers, grocery stores, market stalls, farm shops or any other public service environments.

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Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety in Retail Training Certification

Our entire library of training courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as adhering to the universally recognised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Upon passing the online assessment you will have the options to both print and download your Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety in Retail Training Certificate in PDF format. In addition to this an automated email will also be sent to your chosen email address containing a link to your certificate ensuring you always have access to a copy.

Furthermore, a QR code is displayed on each certificate which when scanned by a smartphone links to our certification database. This allows employers, auditors and local authority inspectors, for example, to establish a certificates validity instantly and at any time.

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Course Aim

The aim of this course is to ensure that employees gain a good understanding of food safety procedures, ensuring high standards are implemented and maintained.

This course will help to ensure that audits and inspections are successful through effective staff training, allowing the business to maximise profit and minimise risks.

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Learning Objectives

On completion of the course, you should be able to:

• Explain the importance of food safety
• Explain food safety management procedures
• Explain the principle causes of food-borne illness
• Explain how food borne illness affects consumers and retailers
• Explain how poor safety practices affect food retailers
• Explain good food safety procedures in retail stores
• Explain how to prevent food borne illness
• Identify food hazards
• Explain what the ‘four C's are
• Demonstrate how to keep relevant records
• Explain due diligence
• Explain legal responsibilities
• Explain the responsibilities of food businesses and managers
• Explain penalties applicable to poor food handlers
• Explain what enforcement powers are

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Training Course Content

This course is made up of the following modules:

• Module 1 - Individual responsibility for food safety

  This module gives you the knowledge and understanding as to why it is vital to work to the highest safety standards at all times when handling and storing food.

• Module 2 - The Importance of Personal Hygiene

  This module concentrates on the importance of maintaining high standards of personal hygiene, in-order to work safely when handling and storing food in the workplace. It looks at how personal hygiene can result in the contamination and cross-contamination of foods.

• Module 3 - How to keep the working area clean and hygienic

  This module concentrates on the importance of maintaining hygienic environments and surface work areas when working with food. You will need to know how to acheive the highest cleaning standards at all times in order for cleaning to be effective.

• Module 4 - How to receive and store food safely

  This module looks at the knowledge you will need to receive and store food to a safe standard following good food hygiene regulations

• Module 5 - Type, sources, vehicles and routes of contamination

  This module covers different types of contamination and how to reduce the risk to a level that will not cause harm to the consumer.

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Assessment

On completion of the course lessons and training material an online assessment will automatically unlock. The assessment will contain 30 multiple-choice questions and a mark of 75% or above will be required to pass.

The assessment will be marked instantly and so you will know straight away if you have passed or not. If you don't pass first time there's no need to worry. Unlimited resits at absolutely no additional charge are available so you can retake the assessment again as many times as you need to.

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