Food Safety

The regulation has been designed to require that food businesses implement training activities that are appropriate to the needs of the business operation.

This means that as a food business owner/proprietor, you are required to evaluate the risks associated with the different job functions that you have and provide food safety training which is relevant to these job roles.

The Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 Chapter XII state that

“Food Business Operators are to ensure: that food handlers are supervised, instructed and/or trained in food hygiene matters commensurate with their work activities, that those responsible for the development and maintenance of the procedure referred to in Article 5 (1) of the Regulation or for the operation of the relevant guides have received adequate training in the application of the HACCP principles, compliance with any requirement of national law concerning training programmes for persons working in certain food sectors”.

Therefore, all personnel involved within the food supply, production and service chain, regardless of their rank, must undertake food hygiene training in order to meet the legal requirement.

Training must relate to the actual job of the individual and the type of food that they handle. The training requirement must therefore be based upon assessed risk.