Basic Food Hygiene Update Certificate

This training programme leads to a Basic Food Hygiene Update Certificate for the relevant year and is open to anyone who has already achieved a Level 1 food hygiene qualification.

Everyone who works with food, whatever their job title and responsibilities, needs to update food hygiene knowledge from time to time to ensure that they are working in accordance with current law and accepted good practice. 

The overall aims are to remind students how to work with food in a hygienic manner that prevents contamination and protects consumers from food poisoning and to ensure that they are familiar with key aspects of current legislation, good practice and food safety issues.

Topic areas covered

• Hazards - dealing with the problems that are at the heart of food safety. 
• Controls - dealing with issues of prevention and control.
• Legal compliance - dealing with the principles of food safety legislation and key legal requirements.

Objectives

By the end of the Basic Food Hygiene Update programme the student will be able to:

• understand the underlying principles of food hygiene and apply this knowledge to their work.
• give examples of the consequences of inadequate standards of food safety.
• understand the basic microbiology related to food.
• state the main sources and methods of transmission.
• describe how food can be contaminated.
• outline ways to prevent contamination.
• list the conditions needed for bacterial multiplication and demonstrate a basic understanding of the controls which will minimise the occurrence of these conditions.
• list the key temperatures required for chilling, cooking, re-heating, cooling, thawing and hot holding.
• demonstrate an understanding of the reasons for effective personal hygiene and hygienic personal habits.
• outline the general principles of food safety legislation.
• state the legal responsibilities of food handlers for food safety.
• give examples of employers’ legal obligations for food safety.
• indicate awareness of the key changes that have been introduced since they undertook their level 1 training or their last refresher training.
• give examples of good practice and relate them to their own work and workplaces.

The Basic Food Hygiene Update programme is designed to take place in half a day, lasting between two and three hours plus time for the examination. Assessment is by means of an objective test of 30 questions.

In-house courses are available throughout the UK.

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