Level 3 Food Safety and Hygiene for Supervisors in Catering — Online

What You Will Learn

• The importance of food safety and the consequences of getting it wrong, including current trends in UK food poisoning
• Biological, chemical, physical and allergenic hazards, and the routes and vehicles of contamination
• How bacteria grow: the FATTOM conditions, the bacterial growth curve, water activity, pH, and spore formation
• The main food poisoning pathogens, foodborne viruses, mycotoxins, and the causes of food spoilage
• How food business operators ensure compliance with UK food safety legislation
• Procedures for the application and supervision of good hygiene practice, including temperature control and the cold chain
• Requirements for the design of food premises and equipment, pest control, waste control and cleaning
• HACCP principles, food safety management systems, prerequisite programmes, and corrective actions when controls fail
• The supervisor as the link between management and food handlers, and how to build a positive food safety culture

Who Is This Course For?

This course is designed for anyone with responsibility for monitoring food safety procedures in a catering environment. Level 3 knowledge is what an Environmental Health Officer expects of the person supervising your kitchen.

• Supervisors and team leaders
• Junior and duty managers
• Senior food handlers and head chefs
• Anyone responsible for monitoring food safety procedures or coaching food handlers
• Owners of small food businesses who supervise their own teams

Why Choose This Course?

• Close the gap that tanks a Food Hygiene Rating: a supervisor without Level 3 knowledge is one of the most common reasons inspections score poorly
• Protect your business: supervisors are responsible for the controls that prevent the food safety failures behind illness, prosecution and closure
• Learn at your own pace: complete the course online, pause and resume at any time, and retake the assessment if needed
• Instant certificate: pass the 45-question assessment and download your KitchenTonic certificate of completion with a unique verification code
• Designed by food safety professionals who train and support UK hospitality businesses

If your role, contract or local authority specifically requires an Ofqual-regulated qualification, choose the RSPH-accredited classroom or webinar version of this course instead.