The importance of Food Safety Training
Food safety training is essential for all people who work within a food related industry sector. Commercial catering and other food related businesses will need to invest in professional food safety training for all their employees to ensure they are complaint with all the current guidelines surrounding food hygiene and food safety. Food safety training courses are widely available and will be run by training consultants who have all the knowledge and experience of food safety. They will offer food hygiene training to people working within the food service and hospitality industries. Many food safety training consultants will run food hygiene training courses on site at their client’s premises to make it easier and more convenient for employees to access the training.
A dedicated food safety training company will work closely with each one of their clients to design, develop and deliver food hygiene training courses that are tailored to their exact needs and their workplace setting. Some companies now offer DVD training solutions so companies will purchase the DVD package and can then provide food safety training to their employees as and when it is required. This makes training easy to access and makes it easy for employers to offer food hygiene training to any new staff and to carry out regular refresher training with existing staff. A good food safety training course or DVD will be fun, easy to understand and will deliver all the required knowledge that people require when working with food.
Food safety training should be undertaken by all food handlers and it will cover a wide range of food related topics. These will include participant’s learning about micro-organisms, bacteria, food poisoning, people at risk, causes of food poisoning, personal hygiene, cleansing and sanitising, food temperature control, handling food, storage, pest control and handling waste. There are also food hygiene training courses that are for managing food safety and these are aimed at executive chefs, sous-chefs, F & B managers and kitchen managers.
If you or your staff needs Food Safety Training in South Africa, Class Act have introduced a new training DVD that will teach you everything you need to know. Class Act have been providing food hygiene training courses for many years and have condensed all this experience into our new DVD!
