How To Improve Your Food Hygiene Rating

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How to Improve Your Food Hygiene Rating
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This course is designed for those who manage food premises, whether catering, retail or manufacturing, who want to improve their rating under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS).

The FHRS is in place throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This course will help businesses to develop a thorough understanding of how the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme works so that they can apply the knowledge in their own workplace and aim towards achieving, and maintaining, a level 5 food hygiene rating.

The course also contains a downloadable checklist that you can use to assess the current conditions of your food premises and recognise where changes are needed to improve your food hygiene rating score.

This course was last audited on: 13th March 2023
  • Designed by Food Industry Experts
  • Accredited by CPD and endorsed by the Institute of Hospitality
  • Fully online course and assessment with no time limits
  • Full audio voiceover
  • Approximate duration: 4 hours
  • Same day digital certificate. Printed certificate posted the next working day

Aims of the course

  • Understand the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme scoring system.
  • Know how to achieve the highest level of 5 in the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.
  • Understand some of the common mistakes that food businesses make that can cause them to receive a low rating.
  • Recognise how to improve their food premises so that the highest rating can be achieved and maintained.


Certification

CPD Approved
IoH Approved

All of our courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to universally accepted Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Additionally, this course is endorsed by the Institute of Hospitality as providing independently-evaluated, quality content that teaches good practice standards.

On successful completion of the course you will be sent a quality assured certificate through the post the next working day. This can be used to provide evidence for compliance and audit. 

This certificate does not have an expiry date. However, based on industry best practice guidelines, the recommended renewal period for this training is 3 years. We will print this recommended renewal date on your certificate.


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Course content

ModuleDescription
1The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme

What is the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, understanding the scoring system, your food hygiene rating, can I appeal, and food hygiene ratings in Scotland.

2How Hygienically Food Is Handled

Food premises requirements, interpretation of food hygiene regulations, download the checklists, personal hygiene, food handling equipment, physical and chemical contamination, and temperature control for chilled food, cooking and storage.

3Physical Conditions of the Business

Premises law, general premises requirements, toilets and hand washing requirements, cleaning, and pest control.

4Advice for Older Properties

Achieving level 5, layout of the premises, compliance with food safety procedures, floors and walls, pipework and paintwork, pest control, and confidence in management.

5Food Preparation Areas

Premises design and construction, food contact surfaces, shelving, food preparation areas, and temporary food preparation areas.

6Managing and Documenting Food Safety

Managing food hygiene, HACCP, staff training, daily routine, managing stock, managing supplies and contractors, management of food allergens, maintaining level 5, and download the checklists.

7Advice on E.Coli

Key considerations, separation, equipment, cleaning, hand washing, and cooking temperatures.

8Advice on Pest Control

Pest control using a contractor, in-house pest control best practice, daily and weekly procedures, recording products used, staff training, and pest control documentation.

9Advice on the Use of Eggs

Storage, handling eggs, cross-contamination, pooling eggs, pasteurised eggs, people at risk, risk assessment, key considerations, Class A eggs, weight grading, and packaging.

10Advice on the Storage of Oysters

Key considerations, receipt and delivery, storage, handling, food handlers and illness, and management procedures.


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Assessment

The online assessment is taken on completion of the training material. You will be asked 10 questions with a pass mark of 80%. The answers are marked automatically so you will instantly know whether you have passed. If you don't pass don't worry! You can take the test as many times as you need with no extra charge.


Who should take this course?

This course is suitable for all employees of food premises in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - including catering, retail and manufacturing premises - who are looking to improve their food hygiene rating.

There are no prerequisites to the course, although it is recommended you have existing knowledge of food safety and hygiene procedures.



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For companies ordering 5 or more courses, you’ll also be given the option to pay by invoice.

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Course access

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If you’ve purchased a single course, we’ll send you a unique course code. You can use this to add your training to an existing account, or create a brand new one. 

Purchased multiple courses for training your team? We’ll email you all the login details you need to distribute to your staff.

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Certificate

If your delivery address is in the UK, we will send a hard copy of your certificate to your UK postal address once you’ve completed your course. Although we try to deliver your certificates as soon as possible, please allow 3-4 working days for delivery.

Don’t want to wait? You can instantly download your digital certificate as a PDF after course completion.

Additionally, please note that if your company is paying by invoice we can only issue certificates after your order has been fully paid.

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Continued support

Our friendly customer support team is happy to help at any stage of your training. Call us on 0333 006 7000 or contact support@highspeedtraining.co.uk, and we’ll do our best to answer any questions you may have. 

Additionally, have you seen our help page? It’s full of useful information to help guide you through your training experience.