Level 1 Food Safety & Hygiene Awareness (CPD)

You don’t have to be a chef to keep food safe, or to make someone ill. Clean hands, a wiped-down surface, a fridge kept cold: the small everyday things anyone can do are what stop food poisoning. This course teaches them from scratch, in plain English, for anyone new to working in or around food.

Who it’s for

Ideal for lower-risk roles: people who handle wrapped or pre-packed food, or who simply work near it.

• Waiting, bar and front-of-house staff
• Checkout and shelf-stacking staff
• Kitchen porters and cleaners
• Delivery and warehouse workers
• Hosts, volunteers and brand-new starters in catering or retail

No experience needed. It’s also the natural first step before Level 2.

What you’ll learn

• Why food safety matters, and what actually goes wrong
• The main ways food becomes unsafe
• How to keep yourself clean and work hygienically, handwashing included
• The basics of contamination, temperature and storage
• How to keep your work area clean and tidy
• Your legal duties as a food worker, from reporting illness to spotting problems

How the course works

Six short lessons, each broken into bite-size topics and rounded off with a quick quiz: 10 questions picked at random from a larger set, so every go is a little different (80% to pass, three attempts each). Your progress saves as you move through, and the moment you finish, your CPD-standard certificate, with your name and a verifiable reference code, is ready to download from My Account.

12 months’ access · study on any device · certificate downloadable the instant you pass.

Course content

• IntroductionLesson
• What Is Food Safety and Why It MattersLesson
• What food safety meansTopic
• Why it mattersTopic
• Who is most at riskTopic
• How food becomes unsafeTopic
• Small actions, big differenceTopic
• 🎮 Practice: who needs extra care?Topic
• Lesson 1 Assessment — Why Food Safety MattersQuiz
• Personal Hygiene for Food WorkersLesson
• You can carry germsTopic
• Washing your handsTopic
• When to wash your handsTopic
• Clothing and appearanceTopic
• Behaviour around foodTopic
• Cuts and illnessTopic
• 🎮 Practice: the perfect hand-washTopic
• Lesson 2 Assessment — Personal HygieneQuiz
• Keeping Food Safe from ContaminationLesson
• What contamination meansTopic
• Cross-contaminationTopic
• Keeping raw and ready-to-eat food apartTopic
• Physical and chemical contaminationTopic
• Food allergiesTopic
• Cover, separate, checkTopic
• 🎮 Practice: sort the contaminationTopic
• Lesson 3 Assessment — ContaminationQuiz
• Temperature, Storage and Date LabelsLesson
• Why temperature mattersTopic
• Basic temperatures to knowTopic
• Storing food correctlyTopic
• Stock rotationTopic
• Date labels: use by and best beforeTopic
• Simple storage habitsTopic
• 🎮 Practice: stack the fridgeTopic
• Lesson 4 Assessment — Temperature & StorageQuiz
• Cleaning and Keeping Your Area TidyLesson
• Why cleaning mattersTopic
• Cleaning and disinfectingTopic
• Clean as you goTopic
• Using cleaning chemicals safelyTopic
• Cloths and equipmentTopic
• Dealing with wasteTopic
• 🎮 Practice: the two-stage cleanTopic
• Lesson 5 Assessment — CleaningQuiz
• Your Responsibilities, the Law and Reporting ProblemsLesson
• Food safety is the lawTopic
• Your responsibilitiesTopic
• Reporting illnessTopic
• Spotting pestsTopic
• Reporting problemsTopic
• Training and moving onTopic
• 🎮 Practice: your job — or report it?Topic
• Lesson 6 Assessment — The Law & ReportingQuiz
• Course SummaryLesson
• Final Exam — Level 1 Food Safety & HygieneQuiz