Honiton Carers are booked for a Food Hygiene Level 1 course on Wednesday 8th February and Wednesday 8th March at Honiton Methodist Church from 2.00 – 4.00 pm.
Kerry from Coldwell Training will run the course curtesy of Devon Carers. We are extremely grateful for this very beneficial training awarded to us all.
Content
The qualification covers the following topics:-
Introduction to Food Safety
Personal Hygiene
Cleaning
Contamination
This qualification has been developed to raise awareness of key food safety issues and to provide volunteers with an induction to food hygiene, prior to undertaking the Level 2 Award in Food Safety.
Level 1 Food Safety provides an ideal solution to volunteer induction training including:-
New volunteers with minimal or no prior food safety knowledgeVolunteers handling low-risk or wrapped foods (category A)
Front of house volunteers, such as waiting on tables
Kitchen Volunteers involved with low risk situations involving occasional food handling.
Course duration 2 x 2hours.
Part 1 of the Food Hygiene Level 1 course took place on Wednesday 8th February and was much enjoyed by everyone. We split in to 5 groups with the head of each group collating all the discussion notes for feedback and further discussions.
The Discussion Points today were:-
Why is food Handling important
Getting Food Safety wrong
Benefits of knowing how to handle food
Getting food Safety right
Different types of Hazards
Hazard spotting (exercise)
Food poisoning (common sources and symptoms)
There was a lively discussion on each table and lots of interactions during the whole sessions.
We finished off with a hand washing exercise and had our hands scanned to determine if we had washed our hands thoroughly.
Wednesday 10th May 2023
This afternoon we completed session 2 of the level 1 Food Handling Course, which was sadly postponed from March. due to the snow. Kerry Coldwell delivered another brilliant session, which this time covered:
The 14 Major Food Allergens
Safe and Unsafe Food Temperatures
Cross Contamination
Food Storage
Cleaning
Pest Control
Protective Clothing
Safe Food Management
We ended the session with a quiz to test our knowledge and a test paper on Food Temperatures. I am quite sure everyone learnt a lot today and will hopefully remember most of it for future use.
