Food Hygiene for Kitchen Assistants & Food Handlers
Practical food hygiene awareness for starting work in a restaurant, takeaway, café or commercial kitchen
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What You'll Learn
Course Overview
Role-focused food hygiene awareness training for kitchen assistants and food handlers. Built around the tasks a new or entry-level food worker actually performs: handwashing and illness reporting, preventing cross-contamination, safe storage and stock rotation, temperature control, cleaning and disinfection, allergen awareness, deliveries, waste and what to do when something goes wrong. Includes a final assessment and certificate of completion.
Course Modules
8 modules
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The Restaurant & Retail Job Starter Bundle combines this course with the other relevant kitchen, allergen and retail food-safety courses. Complete each course separately and receive a completion certificate for each one.
Who is this course for?
Kitchen assistants, food handlers, restaurant, café and takeaway staff.
What does this course provide?
A practical option for people preparing for or already working in kitchen and food-handling roles who need awareness-level training in hygiene, contamination controls, cleaning and safe food handling.
- Price
- £9.99 one-off
- Study format
- Online and self-paced
- Assessment
- 25 questions; 80% pass mark
- Completion evidence
- Downloadable PDF certificate after passing
The Food Standard provides independent awareness training. This course is not presented as a regulated qualification, government approval or an employment guarantee. Employers remain responsible for deciding what training is appropriate for a role and their food-safety procedures.
Assessment & Certification
After completing all course modules, you'll take a multiple-choice assessment. Pass with 80% or above to instantly download your completion certificate from The Food Standard. Unlimited retakes included.
About this course
Built for the job
This practical course focuses on food-hygiene situations kitchen assistants and entry-level food handlers meet during a normal shift: personal hygiene, cross-contamination, temperature control, storage, cleaning, allergens and responding when something goes wrong.
What this course is
Independent workplace awareness training with an online assessment and certificate of completion. UK food handlers do not have to hold a particular food-hygiene certificate, but food businesses must ensure staff receive supervision, instruction and/or training appropriate to their work.
What this course is not
It is not an Ofqual-regulated qualification, not an accredited Level 2 or Level 3 qualification, not government-approved, and not a substitute for the employer's own procedures, supervision or food-safety management system.
Certification
Certificate of completion
Learners who pass the final assessment receive a certificate recording completion of Food Hygiene for Kitchen Assistants & Food Handlers — Awareness Training.
The certificate records completion of this independent awareness course. It is not an Ofqual-regulated qualification, is not an accredited Level 2 or Level 3 qualification, and is not government-approved. Employers remain responsible for ensuring staff receive supervision, instruction and/or training appropriate to their work.
Course Details
- LevelAwareness
- Duration75-90 minutes
- FormatOnline, self-paced
- Modules8
- Assessment25 questions
- Pass Mark80%
- CertificateInstant PDF download
- AccessLifetime
Need to train your team?
Train multiple staff members with simple online awareness training. Ideal for cafés, takeaways, kitchens, food production teams and food businesses.
- All courses included
- Simple online enrolment
- PDF certificates for every learner
- Ideal for staff onboarding