Food Safety: Maintaining Personal Hygiene, Online Training Format

Food service establishments must take every precaution to prevent an outbreak of illness resulting from contaminated food, and nothing counts more toward this effort than the personal hygiene of those who work around food. A study of 81 foodborne illness outbreaks showed that almost 90 percent of them involved the spread of disease to food by workers’ unclean hands. That’s why all employees who work around food and food-contact surfaces must be trained in good hygiene practices, especially thorough handwashing, and be held accountable for following them. This course identifies those practices that employees must follow to maintain a level of personal hygiene that can keep them healthy and prevent outbreaks of foodborne illness in the workplace (Discounts are available for Enterprise Training by calling us at 1-800-521-9667).

TARGET AUDIENCE
All food preparation and food service employees who have contact with food, the equipment used to prepare food, and the surfaces where food is prepared or served.

TIME TO COMPLETE
30 minutes

PURPOSE
To teach employees of food service establishments the correct practices for maintaining personal hygiene that can prevent contamination and foodborne illness.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, the learner will be able to:

explain the role of personal hygiene in preventing contamination and foodborne illness;
identify the hygiene practices that employees of food service establishments should follow before reporting to work and while at work;
identify the physical conditions that require employees to stay away from the workplace;
recognize the instances when employees are required to wash their hands;
identify and follow the steps of proper handwashing; and
identify the correct procedures for using gloves.