Level 3 Food Hygiene Course for Supervisors

Our online Level 3 Food Hygiene Course is designed to help supervisors and managers comprehensively understand their roles and responsibilities. This online course is essential for senior-level staff in the catering, retail, or manufacturing sectors who must ensure their team complies with food hygiene and safety regulations.

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• Work towards compliance with UK & EU Food Safety and Hygiene Legislation
• A Course for Catering, Retail & the Manufacturing Food Industry
• Train online at your own pace with a full audio voiceover
• Assured by RoSPA & Accredited by CPD
• Certificate on successful completion
• Course duration: 6 - 7 Hours
• Unlimited resits at no cost

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Who is this Level 3 Food Hygiene for?

Our online Level 3 Food Hygiene course is ideal for managers and supervisors who are currently working towards or currently in a role in either food catering, retail, or even a food manufacturing environment, and are in a charge of staff.

Senior-level staff who have achieved this certification ensure their organisation's legal compliance, uphold high standards of food hygiene, and enhance food quality control—all critical topics addressed in this advanced Food Hygiene Level 3 online course.

For individuals, it reinforces their knowledge and skills in food safety management, demonstrating a commitment to maintaining high food hygiene standards.

Do you work under management or supervision and handle food? Achieving a level 2 food hygiene and safety certificate may be ideal. We also offer a level 2 food hygiene for those working in the catering, retail and manufacturing food sector too.

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Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate

Our entire library of training courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as adhering to the universally recognised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

This training course and it's content has also been assured by RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Upon passing the online assessment you will have the options to both print and download your Level 3 Food Hygiene & Safety Certificate in PDF format. In addition to this an automated email will also be sent to your chosen email address containing a link to your certificate ensuring you always have access to a copy.

Furthermore, a QR code is displayed on each certificate which when scanned by a smartphone links to our certification database. This allows employers, auditors and local authority inspectors, for example, to establish a certificates validity instantly and at any time.

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Course Aim

This advanced training goes beyond a Level 2 food course, offering a deeper understanding of food hygiene and safety. It is aimed at those in or aspiring to supervisory or managerial roles. The course helps participants learn how to effectively supervise food handlers, set up and maintain a strong HACCP system, and manage food safety hazards and hygiene risks.

It also covers preventing food-borne illnesses and understanding the personal and legal responsibilities involved. Additionally, the training improves supervisory skills, teaches risk assessment, and ensures compliance with current food safety laws and regulations.

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Learning Objectives

On completion of the course, you should be able to:

• Explain your responsibilities as a manager or supervisor of food-handlers
• Understand the responsibilities that a supervisor or manager holds in a food business
• Know the importance of preventing foodborne illness and the impact it has legally
• Maintain a good knowledge of the risks surrounding bacteria and how it can affect food
• Recognise the importance of ensuring food handlers maintain good personal hygiene
• Know the 14 main food allergens and how to handle them safely
• Understand the importance of preventing contamination and cross-contamination
• Know how to dispose of waste safely and its importance
• Understand how to thoroughly and correctly disinfect and clean food work surfaces and equipment
• Recognise the importance of maintaining a successful HACCP system
• Recognise the safe temperatures for storing, cooking and freezing food safely

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Training Course Content

This Level 3 Food Hygiene course is made up of the following:

1. Introduction to Food Safety & Microbiology

   Covers food safety principles and factors responsible for incidents of foodborne illnesses.

2. Food-safety Hazards & their Control

   Covers how to identify the different types of food safety hazards, including the four main groups, which are biological, chemical, physical and allergenic.

3. Food Poisoning & Food Borne Illnesses

   It looks at food poisoning and foodborne illnesses, what factors are responsible for outbreaks, the symptoms and the control measures that can be put in place to minimise the risk of infection

4. Personal Hygiene

   It looks at good hygiene practices to help ensure that when handling food, food-handlers do not become a source of contamination.

5. Cleaning & Disinfection

   Covers how to carry out effective cleaning and disinfection of equipment and facilities while following the relevant health and safety precautions to ensure the safe use of chemicals.

6. Waste Control

   It looks at the types of waste in a food environment.

7. Pests & their Control

   It looks at signs of pest infestation, how pests can become food safety hazards and the actions that should be taken where pest infestations exist by using good housekeeping techniques.

8. Food Premises & Food Equipment

   Before commercial food-handling operations can begin, the intended premises must be suitable and approved by the enforcement authority (environmental health).

9. Food Storage & Temperature Control

   Covers the importance of following best hygiene practices and guidelines relating to the safe storage, transportation and temperature control of different types of foods to ensure food remains safe for consumption.

10. Food Packaging, Labelling & Traceability

    Designed to help you to understand how and why we package and label food to keep food safe for the consumer.

11. Food Preservation

    It looks at how yeasts, moulds and bacteria can cause the decomposition and spoilage of foods, which can make food unfit for human consumption.

12. Food Safety Management

    It looks at the seven principles of HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) as a food safety management system and the benefits of implementing it effectively.

13. Food Hygiene Legislation

    Designed to give you a good understanding of the principal food hygiene legislation that applies to the UK and its relationship to European Community law.

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Assessment

On completion of the course lessons and training material an online assessment will automatically unlock. The assessment will contain 45 multiple-choice questions and a mark of 75% or above will be required to pass.

The assessment will be marked instantly and so you will know straight away if you have passed or not. If you don't pass first time there's no need to worry. Unlimited resits at absolutely no additional charge are available so you can retake the assessment again as many times as you need to.

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