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Food Safety for Food Handlers Online Certificate Course
This online 5-year certificate course is designed for persons who handle food in any type of food service establishment including restaurants, food kiosks, care homes, or private residences. In most jurisdictions, at least one person per shift must have a Level 1 Food Handler’s certificate.
What You'll Learn
- Discuss the importance and implications of food safety
- State your safety rights and responsibilities
- Describe microbes and pathogens
- State where pathogens can be found
- List ways pathogens are spread
- Describe how pathogens survive and reproduce
- List the conditions needed for pathogens to survive and reproduce
- List ways of controlling pathogen survival and reproduction
- Explain how pathogen survival and reproduction is affected by temperature
- Explain why destroying pathogens does not guarantee food safety
- Protect yourself from blood borne illnesses
- Distinguish between chemical and biological
- Food contamination
- List sources of chemical contamination
- Identify sources of biological contamination
- Provide examples of physical contamination
About This Course
This course is approved by the following jurisdictions as a Level 1 Food Safety training course: BC/YT/SK/MB/ON/NS/PE/NL. The certificate from this course is valid for a 5 year period in these jurisdictions.
A webcam is required to verify your identity and participation during the final exam, and you need a quiet environment without other persons around during the exam.
This course MUST be completed within 30 days of beginning it, or must be reset and started again.
This online 5-year certificate course is designed for persons who handle food in any type of food service establishment including restaurants, food kiosks, care homes, or private residences. In most jurisdictions, at least one person per shift must have a Level 1 Food Handler’s certificate.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- State your safety rights and responsibilities
- Apply the principles of microbiology to ensure food safety
- Prevent physical, chemical, and biological foodborne illness
- Apply good personal hygiene to reduce the spread of pathogens
- Safely serve and dispense food
- Safely prepare and protect food
- Safely receive and store food
- Apply proper dishwashing and storage techniques
- Plan for food safety using recognized procedures
Course Features
This course contains full audio throughout as well as case studies, real world news, descriptive graphics, a food safety inspection interaction, part review movies and printable study sheets, and interactive simulations requiring the proper temperatures to be set, etc. Unlike most food safety courses, Food Safety for Food Handlers covers the basics of personal safety for workers in the fast-paced and relatively high-risk food service industry.
Course Requirements
- Estimated Duration
- Approximately 7-8 hours, minimum of 6 hours required before final quiz can be accessed. You must proceed through each part and module in sequence and score 100% on part quizzes before proceeding to the next part. This course MUST be completed within 30 days of beginning it, or must be reset and started again.
- Pass Requirements
- A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to pass this course. The final exam is able to be attempted up to four times if necessary in efforts to achieve the pass mark. Printable part summaries allow you to print important study information. A ‘notes’ feature allow you to take then later print course notes. A webcam is required to verify your identity and participation during the final exam, and you need a quiet environment without other persons around during the exam. The final exam consists of 50 multiple choice questions from a random question bank. This is a closed book exam, you may not use books, notes, other websites, or other persons for information. Should you not pass the exam the first time, you must wait 24 hours before attempting it again.
- Certificate
- Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be emailed to you. The certificate is valid for 5 years from the course completion date indicated on the certificate.
- Registration Fee
- $99.99 CAD
Frequently asked questions about online training
Common questions about enrollment, completion, and certificates.
What are the benefits of online training?
Benefits of online training include:
- Cost effective: no hotels, travel, meals and less time away from the workplace.
- Convenient: courses can be completed wherever you have access to a computer and internet access.
- Self paced: students can pause at any time and continue where they left off.
- Consistent: video/slide format ensures the course is the same every time.
- Easy verification: online access to training and certification records for students and managers.
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What is BIS Safety Software Inc.?
BIS Safety Software Inc. is a network of more than 200 leading safety training companies from across North America who collectively share and provide companies and individuals with access to a wide variety of safety training courses through one centralized online application.
Since 2010, the collaborative partnership between these training companies has not only enabled the best-of-the-best in online safety training to be brought together in one location but it is also helping to improve industry safety performance through the provision of convenient, cost-effective training.
Our partners BIS Safety Software Inc. are, in our opinion, the best providers of online safety training courses in Canada. We’ve been working with BIS since March 2012 and we are completely happy with the service they provide.
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Is there a time limit for online courses?
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How does virtual proctoring/testing with webcam monitoring work?
When you start your test, you will be monitored via your webcam. If you disappear from the screen or appear to be consulting another device or other material, you will be disqualified from the course. The company responsible for virtual proctoring is Integrity Advocate. You can find out more about how their system works here.
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Please ensure your specific jurisdiction and workplace accepts online safety training and allows online training for your use.
Safe+Sound First Aid Training Ltd is not involved in course development and all online courses are sold and delivered in partnership with BIS Safety Software and approved and/or endorsed agencies.