Posts Tagged ‘basic food hygiene training’
Feeling Ill, then should you be at work?
When you are working in a kitchen, food production, or food retail area, you sometimes literally have the health of the people who eat your food in your hands. The hands that you use to touch the food you make could pass on some pretty nasty bugs, and, while this can produce some unpleasant symptoms…
Read MoreTaking The Overall Approach To Food Hygiene
From 5 to 1 – Why you need to pay attention to every part of your food hygiene regime. Regardless of how it may feel sometimes the job of your Environmental Health Officer (EHO) is not to catch you out. They are not trying to close you down or on the hunt for reasons to…
Read MoreIs Dropping ‘Best Before’ the Best Idea?
You probably noticed that Tesco have recently made the bold move of dropping the ‘Best Before’ date from the labelling of some of their fresh fruit and vegetables. According to the retail giant, this move is partly motivated by a desire to decrease the amount of food wasted by consumers. On the face of it…
Read MoreFruit to Full Meals: Whatever You Serve, You Need To Be Trained In Food Hygiene
When it comes to pre-school children it is important to remember that a food safety incident could be far more serious than for an adult. Their maturing bodies are really not yet ready to deal with a nasty dose of something unpleasant like salmonella, so extra care is needed and of course allergy awareness is…
Read MoreConsidering Starting Up A Food Business in England or Wales? This Is What To Do First
Anyone who has ever done it will tell you that starting a business is exciting and terrifying in equal parts. There are premises to find, staff to sort out, accountants to consult, advice to seek, network groups to join, and a thousand other things that you need to consider. If you are working with food,…
Read MoreDo You Need Level 2 Food Hygiene Training For Retailing Food?
One of the questions we seem to be asked regularly is, ‘Do I really need training?’ The answer is very simple. If you handle, prepare or serve food that is to be consumed by the public, yes, you probably do. What sort of training you need depends on the role you will be performing and…
Read MoreContaminating Beasts and Where to Find Them – Common Kitchen Pests
My apologies to J.K. Rowling for the stolen title, but sometimes the way pests get into food preparation areas seems extraordinary enough to justify the magical link. One of the areas covered in food hygiene training is recognising the common pests that you may find in a kitchen, along with details of the diseases they…
Read MoreGetting The Right Balance – What Level of Food Hygiene Training Do You Need?
Let’s be plain and up-front: the bottom line is that if you handle or work with food, you are likely to have a legal requirement to be trained to a standard suitable for your role. There is no loophole to use or discussion to be had on this matter, because the law very clearly says…
Read MoreFood Hygiene Is Vital or Social Media Could Ruin Your Business
The internet is a marvellous thing. The ability to have a constant supply of information, communication and cats doing funny stuff at your fingertips is probably one of the greatest advances in human history. However, like all advances, it can be double-edged sword. Social media is a fact of life. We all tweet, post and…
Read MoreWhat Is The Real Cost of Bad Food Hygiene Practice?
If you run a business, there is a bit of a trade-off to be made sometimes between the cost of training and the benefits of having a trained staff. There are all sorts of training courses available and they will all provide some useful experience to your staff, but they all also have a price…
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