Food Safety Awareness Training for Support Workers : Face-to-Face Training

This Food Safety training program will assist direct support workers to understand the principles and practices to safely prepare food for others.
The program also focuses on the responsibilities for those handling food, cooking and cooling food, the safe practices when handling and storing food and the importance of cleaning and waste management.

2 hours face-to-face training and assessment

Food Safety for Support Workers: Face-to-Face Training and Assessment

1 year

We select our Premium Health trainers and assessors carefully. All are nurses or paramedics with appropriate qualifications, technical expertise and experience in the health care, emergency first aid and education sectors. This enables them to provide you with quality training which is grounded in experience and knowledge of the field.

Some of the topics include:

• Recognising the responsibilities for those handling food


• Defining safe preparation, cooking and cooling requirements


• Defining the 2 hour / 4 hour rule


• Defining safe practice when handling and storing food


• Identifying the conditions that encourage bacteria growth


• Defining the temperature danger zone


• Recognising the importance of cleaning and waste management