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Course · CPD-standard · Online
Food Safety & Hygiene for Catering — Free Practice Course
🕑 Self-paced · about 3 hours
🧩 11 guided steps 🎯 10-question assessments, randomised
12 months’ access · study on any device · no subscription
Written and taught by a CPD Approved Provider (#791025)
Most food poisoning in the UK could have been stopped by someone in the kitchen doing one small thing differently. This free taster shows you a few of those things, and gives you a real feel for how our full Food Safety & Hygiene for Catering course is put together.
🆕 Free, no catch
Two short lessons, two quick games and a practice assessment. A genuine slice of the full course.
🇬🇧 Written to UK law and FSA guidance
The same standards and temperatures as the paid course: cook to 75°C, chill at 5°C, hot-hold at 63°C.
⬆️ Go further when ready
Fancy the full eight-lesson syllabus, a 20-from-40 final exam and a CPD-standard certificate? That’s the paid course.
What’s in the taster
- How bacteria cause food poisoning, and the temperatures that keep them in check
- Personal hygiene and stopping cross-contamination between raw and ready-to-eat food
- A short practice assessment to check what stuck
Course content
- Welcome to the TasterLesson
- Bacteria, Food Poisoning and TemperatureLesson
- What bacteria need to growTopic
- High-risk foodsTopic
- The temperatures that matterTopic
- Personal Hygiene and Cross-ContaminationLesson
- Handwashing that actually worksTopic
- Fit to work and sensible habitsTopic
- Stopping cross-contaminationTopic
- Wrapping UpLesson
- Food Safety & Hygiene for Catering — Practice AssessmentQuiz