Level 1 and 2 Food Hygiene and Food Allergy Training Pack

This training package provides a complete introduction to food hygiene, safety, and allergy awareness for staff in catering and hospitality. It covers essential topics such as safe food handling, cleaning and disinfection, storage, and pest control, ensuring compliance with current health and safety standards.

Level 1 Food Hygiene and Safety course

The package includes Level 1 Food Hygiene and Safety training for beginners or students, which provides a basic level of food regulation knowledge. By itself, this course is not suitable for anyone handling food, as you need Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety training to meet legal requirements.

Why take our Level 1 Food Hygiene course?

Upon completion, learners will understand how to maintain personal hygiene, keep work areas clean, and recognise how food can become contaminated - along with the basic steps to prevent it. This course is only suitable for beginners with little or no experience, such as school students, people preparing food at home, or individuals starting work or work experience in a food environment. It provides a basic introduction to safe food handling.

It’s very important to remember that this is an introductory course and is not suitable for food handlers. To meet legal requirements, food handlers must complete the Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene course.

Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety course

This RoSPA Assured Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering course supports staff development and demonstrates organisational compliance. This section of the package goes into much more detail about keeping safe and compliant in a food handling environment and is the base level of training all food handlers must pass.

Food Allergy Awareness Training

The package also features Food Allergy Awareness Training, helping learners understand allergens and how to manage them safely.

Delivered in an engaging, interactive format, the training is suitable for all staff, regardless of experience, and equips learners with the knowledge needed to work safely and confidently.

Why take this training package?

If you own, manage, or work in a food business, you must follow key food safety laws, including EU Food Information Regulation No. 1169/2011 (FIR), also known as the Food Information for Consumers (FIC) Regulation.

These rules apply to all food businesses, regardless of size, and require you to provide clear allergy information for both unpackaged and pre-packed foods.

You must also comply with Regulation (EC) 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs, the Food Safety Act 1990, and the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2005.

Together, these laws require food businesses to ensure that staff are properly supervised, instructed, and trained in food hygiene and safety, so they can handle food safely and hygienically in line with their role. With this package, you can provide adequate training to your staff and make sure you can provide proof of training to the proper authorities.

Who should take this training package?

This training package is suitable for anyone who handles food. This can include:

• Anyone working in a role that involves the handling or preparation of food
• Anyone who manages staff members in a catering environment
• Anyone working in hotels, restaurants, takeaways, cafes, bars, fast food outlets, fish & chip shops, kitchens, hospitals, prisons, schools and colleges

Course structure

When taking this training package, there are several e-learning content sections you will cover. We have listed them below so you have a clear idea of what the Food Hygiene Certificate Level 1 and 2 will look like.

Food Allergy Awareness e-learning content

The e-learning content includes:

• An introduction to food allergy awareness - This module introduces learners to the objectives of this course and the skills they will gain upon completion.
• What is a food allergy? - This section looks at what food allergens are and how to recognise symptoms of an allergic reaction.
• Legislation - This section explores the fourteen allergens listed by law that food handlers need to recognise. Learners will find out what ingredients and examples of food can cause allergies and what labelling is required on pre-packed food.
• Practical process - This module looks at the things learners need to consider to keep consumers safe, how they can provide allergen information specific to your food business, and how they can safely prepare and store or package food without cross-contamination.

Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering e-learning content

The content of this e-learning course includes:

• An introduction to food safety and hygiene - In this introduction, learners will look at and learn how popular terms relate to food that has been prepared and served.
• The effect of foodborne illness - Looking at what foodborne illnesses are and how they may impact us from both a personal and legal perspective.
• Food law - Food often has a long journey from growth and harvesting, through to delivery and preparation and finally through to being eaten. As a result, there are many opportunities for it to become contaminated. In this section we look at legislation in place that relates to food hygiene and food safety.
• Hazards and contamination - How food becomes contaminated, exploring food safety hazards and hygiene risks and how they arise or how they may be prevented and controlled.
• Food preservation, food storage and temperature control - How to control contamination through safe temperatures and storage.
• Personal hygiene - This section looks at why personal hygiene is so important when working with food hygiene in catering. From handwashing, health, first aid, protective clothing and appearance.
• Hygienic premises and equipment - This section looks at what part the premises and equipment design play in maintaining hygienic, pest-free conditions for food caterers.
• Hazards Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) - It is a requirement of regulations that all businesses implement and maintain a documented food safety management system based on HACCP. This section explains how to control food safety hazards at critical control points using a HACCP-based food safety management system.

Level 1 Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering e-learning content

The content of this e-learning course includes:

• An introduction to food safety and hygiene - An introduction to the basic principles of food hygiene including the different setting food is handled in, the consequences of poor food hygiene, the benefits of good food hygiene, personal food hygiene responsibilities and the different types of hazards. This modules also looks at foodborne illness and the causes of it, the symptoms of it and vulnerable groups of people who are at greater risk of it.
• Hazards, contamination and controls - This section of the course looks at the different types of contamination and hazards including microbiological contamination and cross-contamination hazards, how to control bacterial growth with time and temperature controls, how to store food safely and your responsibilities. The module also includes information on stock rotation, how to handle food and reporting hazards.
• Personal hygiene - Personal hygiene is extremely important when it comes to food hygiene and this section looks at personal responsibilities, hand washing, the need for thorough hand washing, protective clothing, personal appearance, personal habits and behaviour and reporting illness and injury.
• Cleaning and hygienic premises - It is essential that food premises are kept clean and hygienic to ensure food safety to ensure this the module looks at cleaning processes, using chemicals, waste disposal and methods of pest control.

Duration

The Level 1 Food Hygiene course usually takes between one and two hours to complete, and the Food Allergy Awareness course usually takes between one and two hours.

For the Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering course, it usually takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete, meaning the entire package should take up to 7 hours in total, although individual course durations may vary.

Learners do not have to complete all the training in one session as progress is recorded throughout and the training can be paused and resumed in our learning management system at any time.

Legislation covered

If you’re working in the hospitality or service industry, you will need to comply with the latest food and hygiene regulations. This Level 1 & 2 Food Hygiene course and Food Allergy Training course is designed to help you comply with EU Regulation 852/2004, which requires food businesses to ensure that any employee who handles food is fully trained in food hygiene. The contents of this course also adhere to the Industry Standards set by People 1st and the Sector Skills Council for the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism industries.

Accreditation

The content of all three courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

The content of the Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene for Catering and Food Allergy Awareness courses are RoSPA Assured.

Test and Certificate

The Level 1 Food Safety and Hygiene course and the Food Allergy Awareness course test consists of 15 multiple choice questions, the Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene for Catering course test consists of 30 multiple choice questions.

Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt each test six times at no extra cost.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.

This course is not a formal RQF food safety & hygiene qualification, the levels only indicate the type of course so that businesses can choose whom it is suitable for.

Entry requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this Level 1 & 2 Food Hygiene and Food Allergy Training Package.