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Cleaning & Pest Control for Food Businesses — Free Practice Course

🕑 Self-paced · about 2 hours 🧩 11 guided steps 🎯 10-question assessments, randomised

12 months’ access · study on any device · no subscription

The CPD Group Approved Provider, number 791025Written and taught by a CPD Approved Provider (#791025)

A worktop can look spotless and still not be clean, and the first sign of a mouse is almost never the mouse. This free taster is a genuine slice of our full Cleaning & Pest Control for Food Businesses course, so you can see how we teach before the full course opens.

🆕 Free, no catch

Two short lessons and a practice quiz. A real taste of the full course, with nothing to pay.

🇬🇧 Written for the UK

Written to FSA and Food Standards Scotland guidance, with HSE advice on using cleaning chemicals safely.

⬆️ More to come

Cleaning schedules, COSHH for kitchen chemicals, pest law, contractors and your hygiene rating, plus a certificate. The full course opens soon.

What’s in the taster

  • Why cleaning and disinfecting are two separate jobs, and the order they go in
  • Reading the label for dilution and contact time, and where your disinfectant matters most
  • The signs pests leave behind, and the everyday habits that give them nothing to stay for
  • What to do the moment you find a sign
  • A short practice quiz to check what stuck

Free · study on any device · no sign-up hoops

Course content

  • Welcome to your free cleaning and pest control tasterLesson
  • Clean first, then disinfectLesson
  • Two jobs, in the right orderTopic
  • Let the label do the mathsTopic
  • Where the disinfectant matters mostTopic
  • Pests: spot it, stop it, report itLesson
  • Reading the signsTopic
  • Give them nothing to stay forTopic
  • Found something? Act straight awayTopic
  • Nice work, what next?Lesson
  • Practice quizQuiz
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