Overview

The health risks associated with food handling have been widely publicised recently and within hospital management there is a need to ensure that the highest standard of food safety is maintained. This course is designed to help increase awareness of food safety and maintain high standards at ward level.

The course covers:

• The principles of Food Hygiene,
• How and in what form contamination may take place, and
• How contamination can be avoided.

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Course outline

PART 1: PRINCIPLES

• The importance of Food Safety
• The impact of Food Safety
• Acts and Regulations
• Your role on the ward
• The Food Handler’s responsibility

PART 2: CONTAMINATION

• Food borne contaminants resulting in illness
• Physical contaminants resulting in injury

PART 3: HOW CONTAMINATION CAN BE AVOIDED

• How do we stop contamination happening on the ward?
• Standards of hygiene
• Handwashing
• Reporting ill health
• Example scenarios

The course concludes with a short assessment to confirm understanding, the results of which are automatically saved to a database when used with the Audit+ Management System for further analysis.

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Key benefits

• Roll-out food hygiene training to all hospitals and departments with a single installation
• Reduce training costs by removing the need for expensive centralised instructor-led health & safety training
• Allow employees to fit their training into their workload, thereby reducing the impact training may have on their day-to-day work schedules
• Effectively train employees in appropriate techniques for dealing with food hygiene issues without them needing to leave the ward
• Provide essential training in food hygiene in digestible, interactive modules that are proven to help improve understanding and retention levels
• Employees may complete the training over a period of time using automated browser-independent bookmarking
• Set global pass mark specific to your organisation
• Customise aspects of the program to include your organisation's logo and any specific policies on food handling issues
• Provide one-click access to useful organisation-specific contact information and references from within the training
• Automatically save test results to a database for analysis and to establish an audit trail of your organisation's compliance with the law when used with the Audit+ Management System
• Print-out training certificates that are automatically generated at the end of each training session

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Regulatory requirements

This course provides food hygiene awareness training in accordance with the following three key laws that all organisations serving food must be aware of and follow.

The Food Safety Act 1990
This is the most important and comprehensive Act for securing food safety and are applicable to all business dealing with food in Great Britain

The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995
These regulations cover all food premises not covered by specific legislation (such as dairies and slaughterhouses) and require all food premises to be operated hygienically

The Food Safety ( Temperature Control) Regulations 1995
these regulations determine what foods must be kept chilled in the refrigerator and at what temperature.

The UK Food Standards Agency is the organisation established by an Act of Parliament to "protect the public health from risks which may arise in connection with the consumption of food, and other wise to protect the interests of consumers in relation to food".

The UK Food Standards Agency say: "Good hygiene is important to make sure that the food you serve is safe to eat. And it makes good business sense because good hygiene prevents food poisoning and protects your reputation with customers".

This training program helps your organisation fulfil this legal obligation. Training records may be maintained for years and are available for interrogation at anytime from any PC on your network when the program is used with the Audit+ Records Management System.

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Server and browser requirements

This training program runs over a typical company Intranet or hosted website with minimum specification and do not require plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave or Java.

Server:

• Microsoft IIS 5 or later
• Active Server Pages 3.0
• Microsoft® SQL Server 7/2000/2003 or Microsoft® Access (if training records will be saved to a database)

Browser:

• Microsoft® Windows - Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+
• Mac OSX - Safari 2+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+

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