10 Food Protection Training Courses

1. Food Safety Hazards

The first food protection training course is Food Safety Hazards from the award-winning blended training solution, EdApp. In this course, employees will learn about the numerous risk factors that impact food safety. Additionally, general food safety procedures will be covered in order to protect your customers from unintentional contamination before, during, and after food preparation.

Employees will also learn about dangers that are common in the food sector, such as allergic, physical, biological, and chemical risks. It can be challenging to completely eliminate all risks and issues related to food safety. But, ensuring customer safety can be greatly supported by understanding how they can occur and what steps can be taken to reduce them.

A series of quizzes have been incorporated by EdApp into the course to help with learning reinforcement and employee progress monitoring. For a more enjoyable learning experience, they’re presented in gamified formats such as true or false, fill-in-the-blanks, dial distribution, and matrix. Training can never be boring on this gamified adaptive learning platform. 

Cost: Free

Length: 3 lessons

Scope:

• Food safety risk factors
• Allergenic and physical food hazards
• Biological and chemical food hazards

Created By EdApp

3. Food Safety Standards

If you need a five-microlesson course on the food code and safety laws in the US, the UK, and Australia, then there’s one available through EdApp. The course discusses certain processes that can help your team run a restaurant or other food business that are safer for your clients. Although local, state, and national laws governing food safety vary, this course focuses on a set of global standards that you can easily apply to your business.

This course also covers issues including the ideal cooking temperature for removing dangerous bacteria and techniques for sanitizing surfaces that come into contact with food. Restrictions on bare-handed interaction with the food supply chain are also discussed. At the end of the course, a quiz is given to gauge your team’s knowledge.

All of EdApp's courses are created using a microlearning design model. As a result, training sessions are divided into manageable chunks of knowledge that are brief but intense, making them simple to follow and comprehend. Your employees can complete this course in only a few minutes, saving you days or weeks of lengthy training and mentoring.

Cost: Free

Length: 6 lessons

Scope:

• Common prerequisite programs
• Developing a HACCP plan and HACCP principles
• US, UK, AU food safety standards

Created By EdApp

5. Food Delivery and Storage

The Food Delivery and Storage training course is a helpful resource for safe transportation and packing of hot and cold meals without exposing them to microbial infection or deterioration. Employees will learn about important things to watch out for to ensure that deliveries are completed safely as they progress through this course. Included is also a step-by-step manual on how to conduct sensory inspections while accepting deliveries and how to store food to preserve its freshness for as long as feasible.

With EdApp's push notifications and invite links features, reminding your staff of these procedures is simple. Additionally, thanks to the platform's simple user management dashboards, automating and sending out notice reminders or sharing invite links is easy and doesn't require a lot of time. Keep your employees up-to-date with company practices and guarantee quality food protection every time. 

Cost: Free

Length: 4 lessons

Scope:

• Transportation and receiving deliveries
• Cold storage
• Dry storage

Created By EdApp

6. Employee Illness Reporting (Food Service Operations)

Making sure that your food staff doesn’t come to work when they’re sick is part of properly managing a food facility. EdApp’s Employee Illness Reporting (Food Service Operations) course will instruct your employees and managers on the steps they can take if they get sick or start showing signs of foodborne illness. 

The first lesson in this course is a general review of food safety. It then proceeds to list down the employees’ responsibilities in preventing and spreading foodborne illnesses, as well as when and who to report to if they feel unwell. There’s also a lesson to be taken specifically for managers. There, your persons-in-charge will learn of their duties and the regulations that should be followed to handle situations involving employees that report showing symptoms or illness. 

EdApp encourages social learning, collaboration, and teamwork with its Discussions feature. Here, your team can share their knowledge, tips, and experiences on keeping safe or dealing with foodborne illnesses. They can even upload images and videos to clearly show their ideas and opinions. Let your team members learn and uplift each other from shared knowledge. 

Cost: Free

Length: 3 lessons

Scope:

• Food safety review
• Employee responsibilities
• Management responsibilities 

Created By EdApp

8. Drink Spiking

This is a unique course on this list as it deals with the issue of drink spiking rather than food contaminants or risks. Drink Spiking by EdApp aims to raise awareness and learn what your bartenders can do to protect your customers from drink spiking. Making sure that drinks are protected and safe is just as important as keeping food safe. 

In just four lessons, your bartenders will receive an overview of drink spiking and its facts and misconceptions. The course also covers the warning signs and symptoms of drink spiking and the steps that can be taken to prevent these incidents. In cases where drink spiking still happens, your bartenders will be taught the actions they can take to immediately respond to the situation to ultimately protect customers. 

With EdApp's Deputy integration, you can easily manage roster changes, plan bartending shifts, and automate payroll. You can assign training and schedule meetings simultaneously and in one place by combining the two pieces of software. Between shifts, bartenders can revisit their training and stay current on new regulations and information as courses are released. All of this can be done for free indefinitely on EdApp, making scheduling and training available to businesses of all sizes.

Cost: Free

Length: 4 lessons

Scope:

• Facts & misconceptions about drink spiking
• Warning signs and symptoms
• Preventive measures and immediate response

Created By EdApp

10. Food Poisoning (Foodborne Illness)

Use EdApp's Food Poisoning course to teach your staff about the most typical types and causes of food poisoning and how to prevent them. After they take this course, you can be sure that the food or beverage they’re providing or serving won't hurt or put your customers at risk. The course also covers the essential distinctions between bacteria, viruses, and toxins as well as how each of them can result in food poisoning. 

EdApp does more than online training. The frontline training solution also has features that support in-person training, such as Practical Assessments. You can automatically track in-person training progress in the admin portal along with your other EdApp training analytics. There’s no more need to keep separate checklists when training and assessment can be done digitally all in one place.  

Cost: Free

Length: 3 lessons

Scope:

• Common causes and symptoms of food poisoning
• Foodborne pathogens
• Preventing food poisoning

Created by EdApp