Course Description
This Food Handling course provides essential food safety knowledge and practical skills required to handle food safely in commercial kitchens, hospitality venues, and food service environments. Learners will explore hygiene principles, contamination risks, temperature control, cleaning protocols, and legal responsibilities in line with Australian food safety laws and the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.
Whether you’re preparing, serving, or transporting food, this course will help you meet compliance requirements and protect customer health through best-practice food handling.
🎯 Food Handling Course – Learning Outcomes
By the end of this food handling course, learners will be able to:
- Identify food safety risks, contaminants, and hygiene hazards
- Understand legal responsibilities under food safety laws and standards
- Apply effective personal hygiene practices and correct handwashing procedures
- Handle, store, prepare, and display food using safe practices
- Monitor food temperatures and use HACCP principles to prevent contamination
- Clean, sanitise, and maintain food handling areas and equipment
- Recognise high-risk customer groups and respond to allergen risks appropriately
👥 Who Should Take This Course?
- Kitchen hands, chefs, cooks, and food service staff
- Hospitality workers in cafés, restaurants, pubs, and hotels
- Aged care and childcare food service staff
- School canteen, community, and volunteer kitchen workers
- Students entering the hospitality or food service industries
🧰 What You’ll Need
- A device with internet access (desktop, tablet, or mobile)
- A quiet space to complete the course content and quizzes
- An email address for enrolment and certificate delivery
- [Optional] Notebook or digital notes for study
📚 Course Includes
- Easy-to-follow learning modules
- Real-world food handling scenarios
- 6 short quizzes to reinforce learning
- Instant Certificate of Completion
⏱ Course Duration
- Approx. 1 to 1.5 hours
- Self-paced – stop and resume anytime
📝 Assessment
You’ll complete short multiple choice quizzes after each lesson. A score of 100% is required to pass. All quizzes can be retried as needed.
📩 Certification
Upon successful completion, you’ll receive a downloadable Certificate of Completion, suitable for staff training records, food safety compliance checks, or job applications.
