Food Safety Supervisor Course

Created to meet Australian legal requirements and provide a comprehensive understanding of Food Safety in the workplace, the Food Safety Supervisor course prepares the student with an extensive understanding of the role a food safety supervisor must play within the workplace.

Owners of registered food businesses must ensure those who handle food within their business handle foods safely. To ensure this happens, the owner must nominate a Food Safety Supervisor, who has the responsibility of recognising, preventing and alleviating the hazards associated with food handling in your business.

Safe food handling is important for everyone. And although having a Food Safety Supervisor supervisor is recommended for every food businesses, within certain states in Australia every registered food business is legally required to nominate a qualified Food Safety Supervisor and depending on the state in which your business resides you may be required to notify your local government with the details of your Food Safety Supervisor.

To comply with these requirements, the nominated Food Safety Supervisor must also hold a Statement of Attainment issued by a Registered Training Organisation (such as Food Safety Australia). There are severe penalties for not having a Supervisor.

This course has been designed to help you develop the skills and knowledge required to achieve competence in food safety. Each module of the course will help you to achieve one of the required elements of competence. You will be provided with a series of presentations and a quizzes, make sure you are completely comfortable with the presentation content before attempting the quiz, you may view them as many times as you feel necessary.

You are required to achieve a grade of 100% for each of the six quizzes in this course and you are allowed up to three attempts for each quiz. Once you have successfully passed all of the assessment, you will be able to download your Statement of Attainment for the course. We also ask that you spend a few moments completing the feedback questionnaire to provide us with valuable feedback so that we can improve the course for future students.

As part of this online course you must have access to a food workplace (either as an employee or a volunteer). This food workplace should:

• Have an operational kitchen, food storage, preparation, display and service area
• Have real food ingredients and food items
• Be fully equipped for food preparation (eg. a commercial kitchen, catering production line or food preparation area of a food outlet)

Important information for New South Wales Residents

The NSW Food Authority has recently brought in a requirement for a certificate to be issued in the New South Wales Food Authority format.

The Food Safety Supervisor certificate is issued by ‘an approved Registered Training Organisation (RTO)’ in addition to the Statement of Attainment after successful completion of the training requirements.

An FSS certificate states that the person it is issued to is qualified to be a Food Safety Supervisor. We, the RTO will issue the Food Safety Supervisor certificates and cannot charge more than $30 for it, as approved by the NSW Food Authority.

The FSS certificate is valid for five years from the date of issue.

The summary of costs are as follows:

1. Food Safety Supervisor on-line course: $199.00
2. Issue NSW Food Authority certificate: $30.00
3. Registered post and handling charge: $10.00

Total Cost: $239.00

These additional costs apply to residents of New South Wales only.