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Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety

Our Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety can be taken by anyone who works in a food environment where cooking, preparing, or handling food is necessary. These Level 2 Food Hygiene Courses are online and available across three industry sectors: catering, manufacturing, and retail, with each course meeting UK & EU requirements. Our comprehensive training courses cover essential topics such as food safety laws, hygiene practices, and hazard control, ensuring you are well-equipped to maintain high standards in your workplace.



Why Train4Academy?

  • Work towards compliance with UK & EU Food Safety and Hygiene Legislation
  • Accepted by Local Authorities
  • Unlimited retakes at no cost
  • Instant certificate
  • Customer support

Course Accreditations

RoSPA Approved E-learning course CPD Certified
Managing HACCP in Manufacturing and Retail Level 3

Level 3 HACCP (Managing)

The creation of a HACCP plan for all businesses and companies is the responsibility of owners, managers, and supervisors. To create and keep up to date plan, the complex subject of HACCP must be understood. This level 3 course aims to enable this subject to be understood, in simple steps.

CPD Certified Duration: 4 - 6 Hours

Understanding HACCP

Level 2 HACCP (Understanding)

Although a HACCP plan, is usually developed by owners, managers and supervisors, its effectiveness is wholly dependent on the staff who operate, monitor and record the system. It is critical that all staff understand HACCP, and the importance of their roles within HACCP.

RoSPA Assured Duration: 90 Minutes

HACCP Awareness

Level 1 HACCP (Awareness)

The term HACCP, familiar now to all managers and supervisors in the food industry, is not a familiar term to new starters or many workers. The correct implementation of HACCP principles is however, fundamental to the provision of safe food and to avoid loss of profit or worse.

RoSPA Assured Duration: 60 Minutes

HACCP Plan Template

HACCP Plan Template

The simple way to create your HACCP plan for small to medium sized businesses. Legally, all food businesses need an up to date current HACCP plan but this complex topic is confusing. This template provides a step by step toolkit, containing all the basic blank forms required.

CPD Certified Duration: 2 Hours

TACCP & VACCP Training in Understanding

TACCP and VACCP Training

This Level 2 Understanding TACCP & VACCP training course will give food workers in a manufacturing, retail or catering environment a good level of knowledge on how to implement a successful TACCP & VACCP risk management system into their food establishments.

CPD Certified Duration: 1.5 Hours


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HACCP Training Courses

Our HACCP courses are designed to provide the knowledge needed to train staff from Level 1 to Level 3. Depending on their role within the business, they may require to complete a course in managing.

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Achieve your Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate online

Our online Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety courses provide a simple and flexible way to gain a recognised food hygiene certificate. Whether you work in catering, retail or manufacturing, the training can be completed online at your own pace.

Designed for food handlers and those working in food environments, the courses help learners understand essential food safety procedures and hygiene standards required within the workplace. Once the assessment has been successfully completed, certificates are available instantly to download and print.

With unlimited resits, immediate course access and accredited online training, gaining your Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate online has never been easier.

Food Safety Regulations in the UK

Food businesses in the UK have a responsibility to ensure that staff who handle food are appropriately trained in food hygiene and safety procedures. Guidance provided by The Food Standards Agency (FSA) highlights the importance of food hygiene training in helping businesses maintain safe food handling practices and meet their food safety responsibilities.

Level 2 Food Hygiene training is widely recognised as the standard level of training for food handlers involved in preparing, cooking, serving or storing food. Understanding food safety procedures can help businesses reduce contamination risks, maintain hygiene standards and demonstrate due diligence during inspections and audits.

Training is also important in supporting HACCP-based food safety management systems, helping staff understand their responsibilities when handling food safely.

Online training suitable for food production workers

Level 2 Food Hygiene Training Across Multiple Industries

Our online Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety training courses are available for three major food industry sectors: Catering, Manufacturing and Retail. Each course has been designed specifically for its working environment whilst covering the core food hygiene principles required for safe food handling.

Training typically takes between 2.5 and 3 hours to complete and includes a multiple-choice assessment with unlimited retakes available. Learners who successfully pass the assessment can instantly access their certificate online.

The courses are suitable for food handlers, kitchen staff, catering workers, retail food staff, food production workers and others involved in preparing, handling or serving food as part of their role.

What the Level 2 Food Hygiene Course Entails

Level 2 Food Hygiene training covers a wide range of essential food safety topics designed to help staff understand how to handle food safely and hygienically within the workplace.

Course modules typically include:

  • Individual Responsibility for Food Safety
  • The Importance of Personal Hygiene
  • How to Keep the Working Area Clean and Hygienic
  • How to Receive and Store Food Safely
  • Preparing, Cooking and Handling Food Safely

The training is designed to help learners understand how poor food hygiene practices can impact both consumers and businesses, whilst supporting safer working practices across food environments.

Level 2 training can keep your business, staff and customers safe

How Food Hygiene Training Supports Businesses

Food hygiene training plays an important role in helping businesses maintain safe food handling standards and protect both customers and staff. Ensuring employees understand correct food hygiene procedures can help reduce the risk of contamination, food poisoning incidents and poor hygiene practices within the workplace.

Training also supports businesses during inspections and audits by helping demonstrate that staff have received appropriate food safety instruction relevant to their role. Maintaining high food hygiene standards can help businesses protect their reputation, improve customer confidence and support compliance with food safety procedures.

For businesses operating within catering, retail or manufacturing environments, ongoing food safety awareness and staff training remain an essential part of maintaining safe and hygienic working practices.

Food Hygiene Training Should Be Continuous

Food hygiene training should not be viewed as a one-time activity. Refresher training helps ensure employees stay up to date with current food safety practices, legislation, and workplace procedures. Regularly revisiting food hygiene and safety topics can also reinforce good habits and reduce the risk of contamination, foodborne illness, and non-compliance.

Acquiring further food hygiene and safety knowledge is always beneficial, particularly as job roles, responsibilities, and industry standards evolve. Ongoing learning can help staff maintain high standards of food safety and build confidence in handling food correctly and safely.

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