Highfield Level 1 Award in Food Safety for Retail
Duration: 1/2 day
Accreditation: Highfield
Assessment: 15 MCQHighfield Level 1 Award in Food Safety for Retail
What’s It About?
This Level 1 Food Safety for Retail course gives you a clear introduction to the basic food safety practices you need when working in a low-risk food retail role.
You’ll learn about good personal hygiene, keeping work areas and equipment clean, preventing contamination and handling food safely. You’ll also look at how food can become contaminated by physical, chemical, allergenic and microbiological hazards, and the simple steps you can take to help prevent problems.
The course is designed to help you understand your own responsibilities for food safety and give you the confidence to follow good hygiene practices throughout the retail process, from purchase through to sale.
What Will You Gain?
By the end of the Level 1 Food Safety for Retail course, you’ll have a clearer understanding of the basic food safety and hygiene practices you need to follow in a retail environment.
You’ll learn how to maintain good personal hygiene, keep work areas and equipment clean, and help prevent physical, chemical, allergenic and microbiological contamination. You’ll also understand the part you play in keeping food safe from purchase through to sale.
Most importantly, you’ll return to work better prepared to follow safe food handling procedures, recognise potential food safety problems and report anything that could put food safety at risk.
Who Should Attend?
The Level 1 Food Safety for Retail course is ideal for people working in low-risk food retail roles where there is some food handling, such as stock or storeroom staff and employees who work in or around food sales areas.
It is also a useful starting point for people who are new to food retail or have little or no previous food safety knowledge and need a clear introduction to good hygiene and safe food handling practices.
If your role involves preparing or handling open food, such as deli products, sandwiches or cakes, our Level 2 Food Safety for Retail course would usually be the more appropriate option. Level 2 Food Safety for Retail
Food safety training should reflect the environment you actually work in, which is why there are separate Level 1 courses for different sectors. If you work in catering or food manufacturing, our Level 1 Food Safety for Catering or Level 1 Food Safety for Manufacturing course would be the better choice.
Why’s It Important?
Good food safety in retail depends on everyone understanding the part they play in keeping food safe, even if they work in a low-risk role.
Food businesses have a responsibility to make sure employees receive food hygiene instruction, supervision and training that is appropriate to the work they do. For someone working in a retail environment, that means understanding the basic hygiene practices they need to follow, how food can become contaminated and what to do if they spot a problem.
The Level 1 Food Safety for Retail course gives employees a practical introduction to those everyday responsibilities, including personal hygiene, cleaning, preventing contamination and reporting food safety hazards.
Good training is not simply about meeting a legal requirement. It helps people understand why food safety matters, what they need to look out for and the simple actions they can take to help keep food safe for customers.
Key Topics
- Why food safety matters in retail
- Your food safety responsibilities
- Good personal hygiene and handwashing
- Keeping work areas and equipment clean
- Preventing contamination and cross-contamination
- Food allergens and allergenic contamination
- Safe food handling from purchase through to sale
- Temperature control, stock rotation and date coding
- Safe waste disposal
- Recognising and reporting signs of pests
How Long Is The Qualification Valid?
he Highfield Level 1 Award in Food Safety for Retail does not have a set expiry date. The current Highfield specification does not state a renewal or requalification period for this qualification.
However, food safety requirements, workplace procedures and the way people work can change over time, so it’s important to keep your knowledge up to date.
We’d recommend refresher training when there are changes to your role, workplace or food safety procedures, or simply when you feel your knowledge and confidence would benefit from a refresh.
How You'll Be Assessed And Certified
At the end of the Level 1 Food Safety for Retail course, you’ll complete a 15-question multiple-choice examination. You’ll have up to 30 minutes to complete it and will need to answer at least 10 out of 15 questions correctly to pass. The qualification is graded as pass or fail.
Your completed examination will be sent to Highfield for marking. Once we receive your result and certificate from Highfield, we’ll send them to the person who originally booked the training.
When you successfully complete the assessment, you’ll receive the Highfield Level 1 Award in Food Safety for Retail (RQF), giving you recognised evidence of your understanding of basic food safety and hygiene practices in a retail environment.
Course Delivery Options and Prices
We make it easy to choose a training option that works for your team, your budget and the way your business operates. You can book in-house training at your premises for a group of employees or choose a flexible online eLearning programme if that suits your team better.
We’ll help you choose the most practical and cost-effective option for the number of people you need to train.
Click on the drop-down options below to explore each training option and find the one that works best for you.
In House Training
At an alternative location of your choice.
Virtually via Zoom or Teams.
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eLearning Programme
£26.00 + VAT per person
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Access to the eLearning course. Once you have started the course you have access for 12 months.
Once you have completed the course you will be able to download a Level 1 Food Safety certificate.
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