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Course · CPD-standard · Online
Food Hygiene Awareness for Food Handlers — Free Practice Course
🕑 Self-paced · about 2 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)
Keeping food safe isn’t about being a chef. It’s about a handful of simple habits done every shift: clean hands, food kept apart, a fridge that’s properly cold. This free taster teaches those basics in two short lessons, then lets you check what stuck with a quick quiz. No payment, no catch.
🆕 Completely free
Two short lessons and a practice quiz: a genuine taste of how the full course works.
🇬🇧 Written for the UK
Follows UK food safety law and current Food Standards Agency (FSA) guidance, just like the paid course.
⬆️ Go further any time
Ready for the full syllabus and a CPD-standard certificate? The paid Food Hygiene Awareness for Food Handlers course picks up where this leaves off.
What’s in the taster
- Why food safety matters, and the everyday ways food becomes unsafe
- Clean hands and clean habits: handwashing, cuts, and being fit to work
- Temperature and storage: the danger zone, fridge and freezer numbers, use-by dates
- A quick practice quiz to see what you’ve picked up
Free · study on any device · no sign-up hoops
Course content
- Welcome to your free food safety tasterLesson
- Clean hands, clean habitsLesson
- How food becomes unsafeTopic
- Wash your hands, and wash them wellTopic
- Cuts, illness and being fit to workTopic
- Keeping food at the right temperatureLesson
- The danger zone, and the numbers worth knowingTopic
- Storing food safelyTopic
- Use by, best before, and using older stock firstTopic
- Nice work — what next?Lesson
- Food Hygiene Awareness for Food Handlers — Practice AssessmentQuiz