Duration
7 hours
Schedule
9.00am-4.00pm
Please Note: If you feel unwell, please stay and home and contact us immediately to reschedule your class.
Prerequisites
A Good Understanding of written and spoken English is required to undertake this course: if not, you will be required to organise a NATTI interpreter to be present in the class to Translate: please advise prior to the class ifyou are bringing an interpreter.
What You Learn
Learn about correct storage temperatures, dealing with 'danger' foods, personal hygiene, cleaning food preparation areas and pest control.
This course is a pre-requisite for Food Safety Supervisor training and accreditation.
What You Get
A Nationally Recognised Statement of Attainment for the unit of competency ' SITXFSA005 - Use hygienic Practices for Food Safety', within 2-3 weeks.
The skills and knowledge that will help to ensure you meet your legal obligations under the Food Safety Standards and serve food that is free of hygiene hazards and safe for your customers to consume.
Materials to Bring
Pen
Photo Identification (ie. drivers license, passport, etc).
USI Number : http://www.usi.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
Dress Code
Neat Casual
A food handler is anyone who works in a food business and who either handles food or surfaces that are likely to be in contact with food such as cutlery, plates and bowls. A food handler may do many different things for a food business. Examples include making, cooking, preparing, serving, packing, displaying and storing food. Food handlers can also be involved in manufacturing, producing, collecting, extracting, processing, transporting, delivering, thawing or preserving food.
Australian Food Safety Standard 3.2.2 (Food Safety Practices and General Requirements) requires that people who handle food and the people who supervise them have the skills and knowledge in food safety and food hygiene for the work they do.The aim of the Food Handlers course is:
- To learn about correct storage temperatures
- Dealing with 'danger' foods
- Personal Hygiene
- Cleaning food preparation areas and
- Pest control
This course is accredited as ‘SITXFSA005 - Use hygienic Practices for Food Safety'. and is a pre-requisite for Food Safety Supervisor training and accreditation.
Please note: A good understanding of written and spoken English is required to undertake this course.