Safe Food Handling Certificate
In Classroom
Learn the essential food safety skills you need to work safely with food.
If you work, or are looking to work, in hospitality, catering, food retail or other food service environments, understanding safe food-handling practices is essential.
SITXFSA005 Use Hygienic Practices for Food Safety provides the skills and knowledge required to safely handle food and maintain personal hygiene in a food handling environment.
What you’ll learn
This course covers the essential practices required to handle food safely, including:
- Identifying and preventing food safety hazards
- Safe food handling practices
- Personal hygiene and hygienic food handling
- Preventing food contamination
- Safe food storage, preparation and handling
- Temperature control and monitoring
- Cleaning and sanitising food handling areas and equipment
- Responding to food safety risks and incidents
- Understanding your responsibilities when working with food
Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for people who:
- Are starting work in hospitality, food service or catering
- Work in cafés, restaurants, takeaway businesses or food retail
- Need to demonstrate food safety training to an employer
- Are looking to build skills for employment in the food industry
- Want to refresh their food safety knowledge
Get your Safe Food Handling Certificate
SITXFSA005 Use Hygienic Practices for Food Safety is a nationally recognised training unit. On successful completion, you will receive a Statement of Attainment that you can use to demonstrate your food safety knowledge and training to employers.
Learn the essential skills for safe food handling and take the next step towards working confidently in food-related roles.