Food Safety in Catering Level 2

Introduction
The Food Safety course has been developed to enable any person who works with food to ensure that the food they produce or handle is safe for customers to eat. By completing this course you will not only learn the basic principles of food safety, but in doing so you are also fulfilling the legal requirement as a food handler to be trainee to carry out your job role safely.

• Definition of food safety
• The symptoms and causes of food poisoning
• The benefits associated with good food safety
• The sources of food poisoning bacteria
• How food poisoning can occur and how it can be prevented
• Cross-contamination
• Requirements for the construction of food premises
• The benefits of a documented food management system