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Level 1 Food Hygiene and Safety

Last Update October 7, 2025
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  • Level: Beginner
  • Duration: 3 Hours
  • Lectures: 28
  • Access: 1 Year
  • Language: English
Level 1 Food Hygiene and Safety
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Course overview

Food hygiene and safety are essential for preventing foodborne illness, protecting customers, and maintaining clean, compliant food operations. Poor personal hygiene, unsafe temperatures, cross-contamination, allergen cross-contact, and inadequate cleaning can create serious risks for consumers and food businesses.

The Level 1 Food Hygiene and Safety course covers Canadian food safety principles, food hazards, personal hygiene, safe handling behaviour, contamination prevention, allergen controls, temperature management, storage, cleaning, sanitizing, waste management, pest control, and basic legal responsibilities.

Learners will develop the knowledge to handle food responsibly, recognize hazards, follow hygiene procedures, and support safer workplace practices. Certification is provided upon successful completion of the course.

Key topics included

  • Understanding food hygiene and safety principles in Canada

  • Recognizing food hazards and causes of foodborne illness

  • Applying effective personal hygiene and safe handling behaviour

  • Preventing contamination, cross-contamination, and allergen cross-contact

  • Managing time, temperature, storage, and stock controls

  • Following cleaning, sanitizing, waste, pest control, and legal procedures

Entry requirements

  • There are no formal academic prerequisites for this course. Learners should have basic English reading and comprehension skills to understand food safety instructions, workplace procedures, and assessment materials. A responsible attitude toward hygiene, attention to cleanliness, and willingness to follow safe food handling, temperature control, cleaning, and contamination prevention procedures are recommended.

Who is this course for

This course is suitable for food handlers, kitchen assistants, servers, catering employees, restaurant staff, retail food workers, volunteers, supervisors, managers, and food business owners. It is relevant to anyone who prepares, handles, stores, serves, cleans around, or comes into contact with food within catering, hospitality, retail, community, or workplace environments.

Certification

Certificate

Curriculum

0 3 Hours
  • Introduction to Food Hygiene and Safety in Canada
  • Module 1 Quiz
  • Food Hazards and Foodborne Illness
  • Module 2 Quiz
  • Personal Hygiene and Safe Food Handling Behaviour
  • Module 3 Quiz
  • Preventing Contamination, Cross-Contamination, and Allergen Cross-Contact
  • Module 4 Quiz
  • Time, Temperature, Storage, and Stock Control
  • Module 5 Quiz
  • Cleaning, Sanitising, Waste, and Pest Control
  • Module 6 Quiz
  • Basic Food Safety Systems, Legal Awareness, and Workplace Practice
  • Module 7 Quiz
  • Level 1 Food Hygiene and Safety Final Exam

Frequently Asked Questions

This course is open to food handlers, catering staff, kitchen assistants, servers, retail food workers, supervisors, managers, business owners, volunteers, and workplace learners. It is suitable for anyone who handles food or supports food service activities.
You will learn about food hazards, foodborne illness, personal hygiene, safe handling behaviour, contamination prevention, allergen cross-contact, temperature control, storage, stock rotation, cleaning, sanitizing, waste management, pest control, and basic food safety responsibilities.
Unsafe food handling can lead to contamination, allergic reactions, foodborne illness, customer harm, and operational disruption. This training helps learners understand common risks and follow consistent hygiene, storage, cleaning, temperature control, and contamination prevention procedures.
Yes. The course helps learners improve personal hygiene, food handling, contamination prevention, temperature monitoring, storage, cleaning, and pest awareness. These skills can support safer daily routines, more consistent workplace procedures, and better protection for customers.
Yes. Certification is provided upon successful completion of the course and any required assessments. The certificate demonstrates your understanding of the key principles and practical applications covered in the training.