Food Hygiene and Safety

This award is regarded as the must-have qualification for all food handlers. Whether you work as a chef, cook, food and beverage assistant, beverage assistant, bar staff and any other job in hospitality where the handling and serving of food and drink is part of your duties, the legal requirement for training is as follows.

Regulation (EC) Number 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs states:

The food business operator shall ensure that food handlers are supervised and instructed and/or trained in food hygiene matters commensurate with their work activity (it’s about competency not certification)

Industry Guides (catering) states:

A food handler is any person involved in a food business who handles or prepares food whether packaged or unopened (includes drink and ice)

All staff should be properly supervised and instructed