Food safety training
The proprietors of food businesses must ensure that all food handlers (including themselves) are adequately supervised, instructed and/or trained depending on their work activities.
All food handlers will require basic instructions before they start work including personal hygiene and what to do if they have a stomach upset.
Staff who handle 'low risk' or wrapped/prepacked 'high risk' food should be instructed in hygiene awareness (cleanliness, causes of food poisoning, temperature control).
For handlers that prepare or serve open 'high risk' food will require level 2 Award in Food Safety training or equivalent supervision, instruction. and / or training
Safer Food Better Business
Do you know:-
- What HACCP is?
- What a hazard is?
- What a critical control point is and how to control it?
- How to monitor the critical control point?
- What to do if something goes wrong?
- How to keep a record of your system?
If not ...
In January 2006, EU legislation required all food businesses to have a food safety management system in place based on hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP). The FSA's Safer Food Better Business (SFBB), is a practical approach to food safety management that has been developed by the Food Standards Agency in partnership with over 50 local authorities and associated small caterers, experts and consultants. It is aimed at helping small catering businesses comply with the EC Regulation 852/2004 that applied from 1 January 2006, which consolidated food hygiene legislation.
The SFBB Guide has been produced or for comprehensive details on the pack contact your local Environmental Health Directorate.
Downloadable documents
- Training for Proprietors - guidance document (Adobe PDF document 27kb)
- List of local approved trainers (Microsoft Word document 65kb)
- Training advice for food handlers on their first day (Adobe PDF document 111kb)
- Safer food, better business (Adobe PDF document 2.7mb)
- SFBB Guide (Adobe PDF document 501kb)
- SFBB Insert Allergies (Adobe PDF document 100kb)
If you are unable to view documents of these types, our downloads page provides links to viewing software.
Who to contact
- Name
- Environmental Health (Food Safety)
- Address
- Turnpike House
631 Eccles New Road
SALFORD
M5 2SH - Telephone
- 0161 737 0551
- environment@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 20 August 2008
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