Elearning - Follow workplace hygiene procedures

Businesses that work with food are legally required to ensure their food handler staff members acquire skills and knowledge of food safety and food hygiene matters.

Course Info

This unit will give you the skills and knowledge required to apply good hygiene practices within a range of service industry operations. You will have the ability to follow predetermined procedures, identify and control simple hazards and take particular hygiene measures to ensure the non contamination of food and other items that might put customers, colleagues and self at a health risk.

This unit is one of three hierarchical units describing varying levels of participation in food safety processes:

• SITXOHS002A Follow workplace hygiene procedures
• SITXFSA001A Implement food safety procedures
• SITXFSA002A Develop and implement a food safety program

What will you achieve from this course?

1. Follow hygiene procedures
2. Report and identify any personal health issues likely to cause a hygiene risk
3. Prevent food and other item contamination
4. Prevent cross contamination

Upon successful completion of this course participants receive a Statement of Attainment for Follow workplace hygiene procedures (SITXOHS002A) as part of Advanced Diploma of Tourism Management (SIT60107).

Career Pathways

• Kitchen hands
• Cooks
• Chefs
• Catering staff
• Food and beverage attendants
• Housekeeping and laundry staff
• Sandwich hands,
• Cafe and fast food outlet cooking crew and;
• Sales people and owner-operators of small business catering operations or retail food outlets.

Prerequisites

• Sufficient literacy, numeracy and computer skills to complete the course
• Access to an internet connection and computer
• Speakers or headphones to listen to audio files
• A microphone is required to record your final assessment
• FOOD SAFETY SUPERVISOR TRAINING PRE REQUISITE - You must have completed this course before being able to be assessed as competent in SITXFSA001A Implement Food Safety Procedures.

Assessments

At various stages of your course, you will be required to complete an assessment.

You will be assessed on:

• your understanding of the information
• your ability to apply this knowledge to a range of circumstances that may occur in a work environment

In your final assessment you will be required to identify hygiene hazards and poor organisational practices within a fictional kitchen and disposal area. You will also be required to prepare an audio file demonstrating your verbal skills to report hygiene hazards and poor organisational practices.

How to gain your qualification faster

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is “the acknowledgement of the skills and knowledge” that you have gained through previous studies, work and life experiences. If RPL is granted, this will mean that you will not have to complete the study or assessments for a unit or units of competency.

RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) »

How long does this short course take?

Choosing to study online allows you to study at a pace that suits your lifestyle.