Food Hygiene

Are you putting your customers at risk? 70,000 people get food poisoning in the UK every year*

With the Food Standards Agency estimating that 45% of food handlers are untrained, perhaps this figure isn't so surprising.

Ensuring your staff are properly trained can stop you being included in this statistic. It can also ensure that you comply with current legislation, as well as increasing customer confidence and protecting your business's repuation.

learndirect Business now provides a simple solution to staff training, with a new Basic Food Hygiene course. As the course is online, it can be completed at a time, pace and place to suit both your employees and your business, causing minimum disruption to the working day.

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Want to prove your staff have been trained?

What better way than with a Royal Institute of Public Health accredited qualification. learndirect Business is the only provider to offer the RIPH accredited Food Safety Exam online at a number of RIPH accredited learndirect centres in England and Wales. Doing the exam online means your staff get an instant result rather than having to wait for up to a month with the paper-based version. It's the quickest route to RIPH accreditation!

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Does this affect my business?

Food Hygiene legislation affects food businesses of all sizes from sandwich shops, cafes and takeaways to restaurants, hotels and shops. The legislation states that all staff working in food handling and preparation roles must be given appropriate training.

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Why choose learndirect Business eCourses?

Our suite of courses is designed to develop skills in areas vital to business success. Supporting your business in becoming more competitive, by increasing staff skills and competency in the areas you need most, is what we do. Our courses are both cost effective and time-efficient, so they won't take up too much of your most valuable resources; time and money!

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* Source: FSA