About The Food Standard
The Food Standard provides practical online training courses for food businesses and workplace teams. We make food safety awareness training simple, affordable, and accessible to everyone.
What We Do
The Food Standard provides practical online awareness training courses for food businesses and workplace teams. Our courses are designed to help learners understand important safety, hygiene, and operational topics through simple lessons, assessments, and completion certificates.
We believe food safety awareness should be easy to access. Our courses are self-paced, online, and available on any device — so your team can train whenever and wherever suits them.
Practical Training
Clear, practical content for food business staff
Completion Certificate
Instant PDF certificate on passing the assessment
For Food Businesses
Designed for food handlers, supervisors and owners
Simple & Clear
Plain English content, no jargon
How Our Courses Work
Each course from The Food Standard is structured to be easy to follow and genuinely useful for food business staff.
- Clear written lessons covering practical food safety topics
- Self-paced — study at your own speed, on any device
- Multiple-choice assessment at the end of each course
- Course-specific pass mark shown before assessment — unlimited retakes at no extra cost
- Instant PDF Course Completion Certificate on passing
- Lifetime access to course materials after purchase
Please note: The Food Standard courses are practical awareness courses only. They are not regulated qualifications, government-approved certifications, or externally accredited programmes. The Course Completion Certificate from The Food Standard confirms that a learner completed the course and passed the assessment — it is not a formal regulated qualification.
Our Values
Honesty
We are clear about what our courses are and aren't. Our certificates are practical completion certificates — not regulated qualifications.
Accessibility
Food safety awareness training should be affordable and available to everyone — from sole traders to large food businesses.
Simplicity
We write our courses in plain English so that anyone can understand them — no jargon, no unnecessary complexity.