COSHH Awareness for Food Businesses, Online

What You Will Learn

• What COSHH actually covers in a food business, cleaning chemicals, sanitisers, descalers and pest control products, not just industrial substances
• How to read a hazard label and a safety data sheet (SDS), and why chemicals should never be decanted into unlabelled bottles or mixed together
• The hierarchy of control: eliminate, substitute, engineering and administrative controls, with PPE as the last resort
• Safe storage, spill response, and what to do if someone is exposed to a hazardous substance

Who Is This Course For?

Anyone who uses, stores or handles cleaning chemicals, sanitisers or pest control products as part of their job: kitchen and cleaning staff, porters, and food business owners and managers.

What’s Included

• 4 short lessons grounded in the COSHH Regulations 2002 and HSE guidance (HSG97: COSHH essentials)
• An 8-question final assessment, pass mark 6/8 (75%), Merit for 8/8
• An instant KitchenTonic certificate on passing, valid for 3 years

A Note on This Course

This is a KitchenTonic-assessed awareness course, not an RSPH or Ofqual-accredited qualification. It gives staff a practical grounding in COSHH principles for everyday kitchen and cleaning chemicals. It does not replace a workplace COSHH assessment for each hazardous substance in use, which remains the employer’s responsibility.