Food safety training and information for food businesses

Council’s Community Health team offer food businesses and community groups onsite food handler training upon request.

Topics covered in the training include:

• causes and sources of food poisoning
• personal hygiene
• hand hygiene
• safe food handling
• minimising food safety risks
• food processes
• temperature control
• cleaning and sanitising
• managing allergens and much more

This training program is designed for food handlers as either an introduction or a refresher. It is not an accredited course for meeting the Food Safety Supervisor competencies.

Fees and charges

Book training

For more information or to arrange a booking contact the Community Health Team:

• 03 9294 5603
• maroondah@maroondah.vic.gov.au

Everyone who works in a food business or handles food for sale is responsible for the delivery of safe food to their customers. All Class 1 food premises, most Class 2 food premises and Class 3A food premises must nominate a competent Food Safety Supervisor (FSS) for their business to be registered with Council.

The nominated FSS must meet minimum food safety training competencies for the food sector they work in and have a Statement of Attainment from a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), to provide to Council upon request.

To see if your food business requires a FSS, or to see the FSS minimum competency standards visit the Safe Food Victoria website.

DoFoodSafely in an online food safety training course especially designed to enable food handlers to safely work with, and handle, food.

Please note, this training is a free, non-accredited online training program and cannot be substituted for accredited food safety supervisor training. It is an excellent resource for all food handlers in the business and contains information on:

• why food safety
• personal hygiene
• food handling
• food contamination
• food delivery, storage and display
• cleaning and sanitising
• food allergens

For more information visit the DoFoodSafely website.

The course is available in a number of languages.

All food businesses have a responsibility to ensure that employees are aware of how to manage allergens in the food business, prevent cross contamination, understand their obligations to meet customer needs and ensure safe food is provided to every customer.

For more information visit the Safe Food Victoria website.