Health & Safety in the Food Technology Room

1. Health & Safety in the Food Technology Room This PowerPoint is a theory resource, it will help you identify the answers for all your health & safety evidence in your project. Lesson objective – to collate information that informs you of the way you should work in the food room. You also need to show evidence of this in your project.

2. Begin by writing up an introduction about why we need to think about health, hygiene and safety, when working in the Food Technology room. Use the images to help you compile this. Lesson objective – to collate information that informs you of the way you should work in the food room. You also need to show evidence of this in your project.

3. Health & Safety in the kitchen – what are the issues?

4. Lesson objective – to collate information that informs you of the way you should work in the food room. You also need to show evidence of this in your project.

5. Lesson objective – to collate information that informs you of the way you should work in the food room. You also need to show evidence of this in your project.

6. The previous two slides list many rules that you could include in your report You will also need to know about risk assessment when cooking for a small business. The next slide explains what this is and how you can write up your own risk assessment procedures. Lesson objective – to collate information that informs you of the way you should work in the food room. You also need to show evidence of this in your project.

7. Below is a typical risk assessment for activities within a kitchen. There are several alternative methods of conducting a risk assessment advocated by numerous organisations which secure legal compliance and would be acceptable to Peterborough City Council’sEnvironmental Health DepartmentKitchen Scenario – Example Risk assessment

10. Resources you could use for this! • We have several posters in the Food room cupboard. Ask to see these, they are comprehensive and list many issues you could write up in your work. • Use the PowerPoint. • Use the theory sheets on ‘student read’. • Finally, use this information and try to write up the detail in your project using your own sentences and words.