Food Safety Training

Are your food handlers competent to a sufficient level in food hygiene awareness?

Are your food preparers trained to meet Statutory requirements?

Under food hygiene and health and safety legislation, staff must be properly instructed or have undergone food safety training. Not an easy task for any business. Sentient know the needs of businesses and have developed a range of food safety training options to suit these needs.

The answer to these questions, and many more, can be found through one of our many food hygiene and food safety training programmes or courses.

We can be as flexible as you require offering the following options:

• Online training for level 1 and 2 food safety for Retail, Manufacturing and Catering trades
• Nationally certificated courses on your own premises – CIEH level 1,2,3 and 4 in Food Hygiene
• Bespoke courses to suit the needs of your business
• Bespoke training material for you to do your own training

These online food safety course will go a long way to give your employees them greater awareness of the dangers that poor food safety standards pose, as well as covering how food safety risks actually arise and how to control and prevent them. Click here for more details. 

Sentient have developed a series of self study workbooks which are perfect for part time staff or where formal class room training is not feasible. The workbooks are aimed at induction training but can be used to aid basic and Level 2 refresher training. Starting with a comprehensive “General Hygiene” work book, employees move onto specific work books depending on their duties; Kitchen, Food Service or Bar and Cellar duties are all covered in separate manuals.

The Practical Hygiene Workbook Pack includes workbooks, activities, model answers, test papers, certificates and personal training records, in fact everything you would need to administer the training and guide staff through the programme.

The flexibility of in-house training and the ability to concentrate on topics directly relevant to your staff has many advantages. Timings are to suit your own opening or shift times and you don’t have the expense of sending staff off site. Work place examples are much easier to include.

This is an extension of the in-house course option, where we write or adapt food safety training courses to meet your specific needs. It may be a briefing for senior managers on legal matters, guidance on implementation of policies or simply a workshop to make sure staff understand the food hygiene or safety aspects of their job. Either way you get what you need in the way you want it.

Sentient offer a number of food safety training courses all of which are approved by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.

Level 1 is a half day programme with a multiple choice examination at the end. It is suitable for those staff requiring induction food safety training such as new employees, those handling low risk foods, waiting-on staff or back of house staff.

Level 2 is a full day course (6 hours in total – so this could be split into 2 sessions if better for businesses). It provides food safety training for employees in a catering, manufacturing or retail environment which involves the preparation, cooking or handling of food. 

This food safety training course also has a multiple choice exam paper exam at the end

Both Levels 1 and 2 have a flexible syllabus which include –

Food Safety in Catering

Food Safety for Manufacturing

Food Safety for Retail

Level 3 is a three day food safety training course aimed at managers and supervisors of food manufacturing and catering businesses. It will help anyone responsible for the development of a food safety management system based on HACCP principles.

Level 4 is a 5 day food safety training programme aimed at business owners, production managers, supervisors and trainers who need a high level qualification with external accreditation. It is a prerequisite for those who wish to deliver CIEH food safety training in their organisation.

All our food safety training consultants are members of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. They have considerable experience with many of them previously being Environmental Health Officers for Local Authorities.

We have produced food safety training materials that you can use to run your own training sessions. This comprises of a range of cartoon based packs which will bring fun and humour into your training sessions

• Food Safety Hazards and Their Control (RSPH approved for use in level one certificate courses)
• Introducing Food Hygiene (Food Hygiene awareness or refresher)
• Introducing Health and Safety (Versions for different users)
• Manual Handling

Often clients prefer their own bespoke food safety course material and we are proud of what we have produced for them in this respect. Whether it is simply an illustration to supplement your own material or the full development and writing of training courses our ability to interpret technical requirements and to present them in light, humorous cartoon style gives you that something different to make your training go much better.

Go to our Course Finder section and click on the appropriate course for full details of our most popular food safety courses.