How Often Should You Do Food Safety Training?
If your workplace regularly handles food, you will be aware of the necessity of having each employee fully trained in food safety. However, this initial food safety training does not mean that you will never need to update or upgrade your food safety awareness. Here, we ask how often should you refresh food safety training.
Frequent Renewals
Even if everyone in your business has undertaken initial food safety training, it is recommended that it is refreshed at least every three years. During day-to-day work, it’s easy to let standards slide or to forget certain things. Renewing food safety training refreshes memories and ensures compliance.
Awarding Organisations, such as Highfield Qualifications, offer short refresher courses for both the Level 2 and the Level 3 Food Safety qualifications.
Look at Legislation
Legislation changes all the time, and while food safety changes might not make the evening news, they are important to your business. You should conduct training whenever there is a change in legislation to ensure that you’re working in line with the most up-to-date practices.
What Should Be Refreshed?
Perhaps one of the most important things to consider is what topics should be regularly refreshed. There are many different areas of food hygiene that should be regularly revisited, these should include personal hygiene, effective cleaning methods, cross-contamination and temperature control.
You can conduct short in-house training sessions or toolbox talks on these subjects. However, if regulated training has not been completed for some time and you notice standards and procedures are slipping, it is a good indication that a professional accredited course that covers all the important subjects is needed.
How Can You Conduct Training?
Food safety training can be conducted very flexibly to suit you and your employee. For example, you may wish to have your employee carry out some elements of food safety training on the job. On the other hand, they can also do this online, allowing them full flexibility over when they complete the training and giving them more time to focus and absorb the information.
Food safety training is vital to many different industries and work environments – whether food handling is part of everyday tasks or something that is done more rarely. If you’re interested in training your staff in food safety or refreshing their previous training, then Envesca is here to help. We cover all matters of health and safety and food safety and can ensure that your employees are fully trained and compliant with the latest legislation. Get in touch for more information about how we can help you.
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Highfield Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering Refresher
This half-day Level 2 Food Safety Refresher course will update you on any legislation changes since you achieved your original qualification.Highfield Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Manufacturing Refresher
This half-day Level 2 Food Safety for Manufacturing Refresher course will update you on any changes in legislation since you achieved your original qualification.Highfield Level 3 Award in Food Safety in Catering Refresher
This one-day Level 3 Food Safety in Catering Refresher course ensures you are up to date on any changes in legislation since you initially achieved your qualification.
Advanced Food Safety Refresher (Level 4)
This Level 4 Food Safety Refresher course will refresh your knowledge of food safety management and any changes in legislation since you achieved your qualification.Share this article with your social Community.
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