
Learn food safety and hygiene practices that will improve your food handling knowledge with this free online course. This course covers the importance of food safety practices, including food hygiene, handling and temperature control. You'll learn how to identify critical control points and implement them into your daily activities from home to the working environment. In addition, this course will cover cross-contamination, waste bin management, pest prevention and personal hygiene. Help to do your part in the community and register today.
| Course Category | Food Safety, Health & Safety |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world's largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Discuss the importance of food safety and hygiene • Distinguish between bacterial and chemical cross-contamination • Describe the role of HACCP in the prevention of food contamination • Recognise how to observe hygiene in the food preparation environment • Recall how to preserve food by controlling its temperature • Identify how to avoid food cross-contamination • Summarise the importance of pest control |
| Course Code | 4357 |



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