Highfield Level 2 Award in Food Safety for Retail
Duration: 1 day
Accreditation: Highfield
Assessment: 20 MCQHighfield Level 2 Food Safety for Retail
What’s It About?
This Level 2 Food Safety for Retail course gives you a practical understanding of the food safety and hygiene practices you need when handling, preparing and selling food in a retail environment.
You’ll learn how to maintain good personal hygiene, keep work areas and equipment clean, prevent contamination and cross-contamination, control food temperatures and handle food safely. You’ll also look at allergens, pest control, food spoilage and the importance of following the correct food safety procedures.
The course is designed to help you understand your own food safety responsibilities and give you the confidence to follow safe working practices throughout the retail process, from delivery and storage through to preparation, display, sale and home delivery.
What Will You Gain?
By the end of the Level 2 Food Safety for Retail course, you’ll have a clearer understanding of the 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, prevent contamination and cross-contamination, control food temperatures and handle food safely. You’ll also understand how to manage stock rotation and date coding, recognise food spoilage and report food safety problems when something isn’t right.
Most importantly, you’ll return to work better prepared to follow safe food handling procedures, understand your own responsibilities and help make sure the food you sell and serve is safe for customers.
Who Should Attend?
The Level 2 Food Safety for Retail course is ideal for people who handle, prepare, display, sell or deliver food as part of their job in a retail environment. It is particularly suitable for employees working in places such as:
- Supermarkets
- Convenience stores
- Delicatessens
- Butchers
- Bakeries
where chilled, frozen, hot or ready-to-eat food is handled or sold.
It is also suitable for people involved in re-stocking, picking and transporting food for home delivery, where good food hygiene and temperature control are an important part of the role.
If you work in a retail environment but have a lower-risk role with only limited food handling, our Level 1 Food Safety for Retail course may be a better starting point.
Food safety training should reflect the environment you actually work in. If you work in catering, our Level 2 Food Safety for Catering course would be the better choice. If you work in food manufacturing, choose our Level 2 Food Safety for Manufacturing course instead.
Why’s It Important?
Good food safety in retail depends on everyone who handles food understanding the part they play in keeping it safe. From receiving and storing food to preparing, displaying, selling and delivering it, everyday actions can make a real difference.
Food businesses need to make sure employees receive food safety training and supervision that is appropriate to the work they do. That includes understanding good hygiene practices, following food safety procedures, reporting illness and knowing what to do when something could put food safety at risk.
The Level 2 Food Safety for Retail course gives food handlers practical knowledge of personal hygiene, cleaning, contamination and cross-contamination, allergens, temperature control, stock rotation and safe food handling throughout the retail process.
Good training is not simply about meeting a legal requirement. It helps people understand what can go wrong, what they need to look out for and the practical steps they can take every day to help keep food safe for customers.
Key Topics
- Why food safety matters in retail
- Your responsibilities as a food handler
- Good personal hygiene and handwashing
- Keeping work areas and equipment clean
- Cleaning and disinfection
- Contamination and cross-contamination
- Food allergens and allergen controls
- Safe storage, stock rotation and date coding
- Temperature control and safe food handling
- Safe display, sale, home delivery and food spoilage
How Long Is The Qualification Valid?
he Highfield Level 2 Award in Food Safety for Retail does not have a set expiry date. There is no requirement to renew the qualification after a set period.
However, food safety requirements, workplace procedures and good practice can change over time, so it’s important to keep your knowledge up to date.
At Envesca, we recommend refresher training every three years. It’s a good opportunity to revisit the key points, pick up any changes and make sure you still feel confident applying good food safety practices at work.
If your role, workplace or procedures change significantly before then, it may be worth refreshing your training sooner.
How You'll Be Assessed And Certified
t the end of the Level 2 Food Safety for Retail course, you’ll complete a 20-question multiple-choice examination. You’ll have up to 45 minutes to complete it and will need to answer at least 13 out of 20 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 2 Award in Food Safety for Retail (RQF), giving you recognised evidence of your food safety knowledge and understanding 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
Alternative location of your choice.
Virtually via Zoom or Teams.
For a bespoke proposal and details of any discounts available please contact us.
Classroom Public Course
£145.00 + VAT per person
Save money with the following discount options:
- Save 10% with our Group Discount when you book 3 or more places.
- Save 20% with our Early Bird Discount when you book and pay 8 weeks in advance.
- Combine both and save 30%!
The cost of the course is fully inclusive of course materials, examination fees, refreshments and a nationally recognised certificate.
eLearning Programme
£32.00 + VAT per person
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- Buy 10 to 49 licences and save 10%.
- Buy 50 to 99 licences and save 15%.
- Buy 100 or more licences and save 20%.
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 2 Food Safety certificate.
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