Food Handler Training - Requirements and Management

Food Handler training requirements

Food businesses need to make sure that anyone who handles food has completed a food safety training course, or has appropriate skills and knowledge, before they start handling high-risk foods.

​Food handler trai​​​ni​ng mus​t include: 

• health and hygiene
• dealing with high risk foods  
• food contamination 
• cleaning and sanitising of food premises and equipment 
• safely sourcing and receiving food
• managing customer complaints
• what to do when something goes wrong
• managing food recalls
• personal hygiene

More information can be found in the Training and Competency section of Simply Safe & Suitable (New Zealand) or at FSANZ (Australia).

Keeping training records 

Your auditor will need to see records of how and when staff completed food handler training. The following information should be included:

• who was trained
• when they were trained
• what they were trained on
• sign off from the trainer and trainee

How Chomp can help

Chomp's digital food safety app makes keeping food handler training records effortless. Chomp has a food safety training module built in as a free (and very useful) feature so you can make sure all your staff are trained!

Through Chomp's Management Dashboard, you can manage staff training including sending training links, monitoring completion and logging management sign off. Staying on top of staff food safety training has never been easier!