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Cleaning a Food Handling Area Course
This course covers the legislative and cleaning requirements to maintain food-handling areas where the work does not involve direct food contact. This unit is not appropriate for a person who has direct contact with food, raw materials or ingredients.
Food-handling areas include food courts and industrial food-processing plants.
The course teaches students legal requirements, hygiene and cleaning procedures when working in a food handling area. Selecting the appropriate equipment, chemicals and cleaning methods is essential to maintaining a hygienic, clean and safe food handling environment.
If you work in a position that requires you to prepare food you should complete the food handler’s course found on the Hospitality Institute of Australasia website.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE COURSE
Course Outline
Module 01: Introduction to food handling and hygiene
- Food Handling
- Hygiene and the law
- What is a food safety program?
- Food Hazards and food handling principles
- How does food become contaminated?
- Bacterial contamination
- Cross-contamination
Module 02: Assess cleaning requirements for food handling area
- Identifying WHS (Work, Health and Safety) hazards
- Maintaining a clean workplace
- Cleaning and sanitising
- Cleaning techniques
Module 03: Select cleaning equipment and chemicals
- Protective clothing and equipment
- Colour coding
- Cleaning equipment
- Cleaning Chemicals (Detergents)
- Chemical Sanitizing
Module 04: Prepare for cleaning
- Personal hygiene
- Policies regarding eating, drinking, chewing gum, and smoking
- Washing your hands at appropriate times
Module 05: Cleaning food handling and food service areas
- Creating a cleaning schedule
- Sample cleaning schedule
- Monitoring the cleaning program
- Cleaning and preparing tables and public areas
- Cleaning spills in food service areas
- Waste disposal
Module 06: Clean and store equipment
- Cleaning Tools and Supplies
- Dispose of used chemical solutions
- Prepare for the next shift
- Unit code name Clean a food handling area
- Pre-requisite None
- Delivery 100% online, No Classroom or Assignment
- Enrolment in 3 Minutes to Enroll
- Learning Time 4-6 Hours - Self Paced
- Payment Via PAYPAL, Mastercard/Visa or our E-Way Internet payment facility
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