Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering

Overview

Catering businesses, such as restaurants and takeaways, can be very fast-paced environments for staff members. Despite this, it is important that care and attention are paid to ensuring that good food hygiene practices are put in place and maintained. This will protect your customers from becoming ill and allow you to avoid the legal consequences and reputation damage resulting from this.

After completing this online course, you will:

• Understand key food safety hazards and how they occur.
• Know how to prepare food safely and correctly.
• Be aware of how to correctly store food to avoid cross-contamination.
• Understand the facilities, equipment and hygiene practices that your workplace must have and that you must abide by.

For more information on our other food hygiene courses, click here.

Assessment

All candidates must complete a multiple choice assessment after working through the online training course. The candidate will be asked 24 multiple choice questions and need to answer a minimum of 18 correctly to pass. Candidates will receive instant feedback after completing the assessment stating whether they have passed or failed. The assessment can be retaken as many times as is required to pass at no additional cost.

Duration

It takes approximately 3 hours to complete the course in full. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in a single session. There is no time limit for completion.

Module Summary

Successful candidates will receive a Institute of Hospitality Certificate and 3 CPD Credits.

This certificate is accepted by local authorities as proof of training.

There is no expiry date on the certificate as there is no formally recognised requirement for re-training, but we recommend that some form of re-training is completed every 3 years. More information on refresher training can be found here.

All of our courses, systems and services have been registered to the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 quality standard. Quality Management Systems Ltd (QMS) made this prestigious award to Commodious in January 2018. This gives assurance that the training and assessment was completed with a quality registered organisation.

After a successful purchase you will be automatically taken to our registration process. Here you create your learner(s) and assign the course(s) to them so that they can start training immediately. If you do not know all the learner details - no problem, you can return later and create the learners when it suits you.

The system automatically creates an admin group of your learners, this means you can access your learner accounts to obtain certificates or schedule reports on the progress of your group, useful for Health & Safety audits or Registration to organisations such as CHAS, SMAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine etc or site access when certificates are required.

If this all sounds too complicated feel free to contact us, we are more than happy to enrol you or your colleagues on your behalf.