Listeria Awareness Training Course

This Listeria Awareness Training course provides the basic knowledge in understanding the factors around Listeria such as, where it is found and how to kill the infection.

Although Listeria bacteria is not the most common source of food infection, it is one of the most deadly, especially with regard to pregnant women and babies. An awareness of this deadly bacteria, its origins and how it infects humans through food, is essential knowledge for all who work in the food industry, or for all those working with pregnancy and early childhood.

• Work towards compliance with UK 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: 60 minutes
• Unlimited resits at no cost

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Who is this Online Listeria Awareness Training for?

This course has been designed to enable anyone, especially food workers, care workers and those concerned with the welfare of individuals who fall within vulnerable categories, to understand the Listeria bacteria and its affects.

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Listeria Awareness 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 Listeria Awareness 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

This course is aimed to provide you with a basic level of knowledge and understanding of what Listeria is, where it comes from, its prevention, how to identify the symptoms and how to treat them should someone become infected.

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Learning Objectives

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

• explain what Listeria Monocytogenes is
• explain where it is found
• list who is at most risk
• explain how the infection is caused
• identify the symptoms of the infection
• explain how to prevent it
• explain what good personal hygiene is
• wash your hands effectively
• explain what good hygiene practices are in RTE (ready-to-eat) areas
• explain the importance of adopting good food and personal hygiene practices

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Training Course Content

This course is made up of the following modules:

• An Introduction to Listeria Monocytogenes Awareness

  This section introduces the learner to the course. It explains what Listeria Monocytogenes is and how it can be killed.

• Module 1 - The Risk of Listeria

  This section of the course concentrates where listeria can be found and how the infection is caused. It looks at the symptoms of infection and the vulnerable groups who are at high risk, which if infected, can have serious consequences to health.

• Module 2 - Food Manufacturing and Handling

  This section of the course covers how outbreaks of listeria can be caused by poor food manufacturing or food handling. It looks at a case study which shows a recalling of food products due to listeria contamination.

• Module 3 - Personal Hygiene and Cleaning

  In this final section, you cover the importance of personal hygiene when working with food. This includes how to wash hands properly and maintain appropriate hand hygiene. It also looks at how thorough cleaning should always be practised in order to avoid contamination or cross-contamination.

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Assessment

On completion of the course lessons and training material an online assessment will automatically unlock. The assessment will contain 20 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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