Smart Training for a Safer Food Business
Everyone working in a Food Business needs to have some training in Food Safety.
We provide training courses to help your food business succeed. Our online training ensures you know the rules, get practical suggestions and feel confident you are doing the right thing.
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Really helpful course! Much easier than figuring everything out from scratch – highly recommended!
An excellent and informative summary about food safety requirements
I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to start their own food business and those looking to train staff
Online Food Safety training you can do anywhere, anytime, at your own pace
Benefits of our Online Training
Get up to date, practical knowledge, plus a certificate and training record to show compliance
Do you employ staff?
If you employ staff, trying to provide training in-house can be time consuming and bad habits can get passed along. But sending everyone on a full day NZQA course is expensive and unnecessary.
A better solution is our online ‘Food Safety Essentials’ training.
It covers all the essential topics, ensures consistent understanding and saves you time.
As a newcomer to the food industry, I found this incredibly informative and easy to use course extremely valuable in helping me understand and establish my food business safety plan. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to start their own food business and those looking to train staff
Benefits for Owners, Managers and Franchises
Consistent Training
Choosing a set course for your staff helps ensure consistency across the business. Food workers all get the same information, avoiding accidental handing-down of bad practices from other staff. It also saves you time so you can use the face-to-face time you have with people more effectively to convey business practices that only you know. Let them learn the essential knowledge in their own time so they become competent and confident in food safety.
Easy to Learn
Online training is more engaging and interesting compared to reading documentation and workbooks. Video based learning is very common among tech savvy workers, and can be especially helpful for younger workers and people whose first language is not English. The combination of visual and audio delivery helps people learn better. Short quizzes at the end of each module help the learners and managers be confident that the content is understood.
Training Records for Compliance
Your business will get a Training Record for each person completing the course, to add to your food safety compliance records for your National Programme or Food Control Plan. This helps demonstrate to the verifier that you are complying with the compulsory staff training requirement. The learner also receives a certificate they can keep.
Want an in-house branded course?
Our courses can be adapted for ‘white label’ use and customized with your own company logos and branding. We can add extra content or records to match your business procedures. Contact us if you would like to discuss this option further.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Food Safety Essentials course is around 1 hour of video training, plus some short quizzes. The topics are broken down into short bite sized videos between 1 and 6 minutes long. There’s no timetable – you can do them whenever you like. You can re-watch the videos as many times as you like, and retake the quizzes as many times as you like.
Common sense isn’t always so common! We’ve all learnt food safety behaviors from somewhere or someone, and they may or may not be correct! Having visited hundreds of different business I have found huge variability in people’s knowledge and practices. Some are excellent and some are scary. You cant assume that everyone knows what you know, or that people always do things right. If you employ staff never make assumptions. If you are the owner or manager, maybe this course will just help reassure you that you are doing the right thing and you’ll have the certificate to prove it. I’m confident you’ll still learn something new.
Courses are video based with slides, voice over and text. The content is explained in a way that’s easy to understand, but not patronizing. There is a short 4-6 question quiz at the end of each topic to make sure you understand it. If you don’t pass the quiz you can re-watch the videos and take it again.
We’re happy to support you if there are any issues – just contact us to discuss
The current Food Act and Regulations don’t require food workers to have a particular NZQA qualification or to take a certain course. Under the previous regulations some Council’s made bylaws about what courses a food worker had to take. But these were all repealed when the new Food Act came into force in 2014. The current rules do require that food workers have the competency required to carry out their tasks. It requires that these competencies are identified and records are kept that demonstrate those competencies and skills have been achieved to ensure food is safe and suitable. This course meets the requirements for staff training in the topics included. MPI and Councils are not allowed to officially ‘approve’ courses now, but some are happy to point you in the right direction towards useful training like this to help.
The Food Control Plan and National Programme Guidance both identify 5 key topics that all food workers should know about, they are: Hand hygiene, personal hygiene and sickness; storage of food; allergens; cleaning and sanitizing; and what to do if something goes wrong – including customer complaints. These topics are all covered in the Food Safety Essentials Course. If you do additional tasks like cooking chicken or choosing suppliers then you’ll need extra training on those tasks.
If you’re unsure which course is best for you, feel free to contact us for advice
Just getting started?
If you are an owner-operator startup ‘foodpreneur’, you need a course that covers both safe food practices and setup of a National Programme or Food Control Plan. Traditional courses often require a day off work and tend to focus on getting a qualification, rather than monitoring food safety and setting up record-keeping systems.
Our online course ‘Food Safety for Startups’ is for you!
It covers the essentials of food safety as well as practical advice on setting up the systems required to comply with the regulations. You will feel confident you have the knowledge to operate safely and have checked all the boxes for compliance.
