HABC Level 1 Award in Food Safety in Catering

Program Summary

The Level 1 Award in Food Safety in Catering is a qualification intended for learners working in the catering environment in low-risk roles but where there is an element of food handling. This could include bar workers, waiting for staff, health care workers, kitchen porters, and stock/store room staff.

Learners gaining this qualification will know that food safety is the responsibility of everyone involved in the storage, preparation, processing, packing, and handling of food. The subjects covered are regarded by the

Foods Standards Agency as being important to ensure good practice and the production of safe food.

Learning Outcomes

State the importance of food safety in a catering environment.
Recognize that food handlers have legal responsibilities with regard to food safety.
State how to report food safety hazards to supervisors.
State how to report pest sightings and damage to supervisors.

State the importance of personal hygiene when in contact with food.
Identify good personal hygiene practices.

State the importance of keeping work areas clean in a catering environment.
State how to keep the work area and equipment clean in a catering environment.
State the importance of safe waste disposal.

Identify how food can become contaminated by physical, chemical, allergenic, and microbiological contaminants.
Identify safe food handling practices and procedures for controlling contamination hazards from purchase to service of food.
State ways to prevent bacteria from multiplying and surviving.

6 Hours