Australian workplace guide
Food handler training and Food Safety Supervisor certification
Understand the distinction between food handler skills and knowledge and certified Food Safety Supervisor requirements.
Food handler skills and knowledge
For relevant Australian food-service, catering and retail businesses, Standard 3.2.2A requires food handlers undertaking prescribed activities to have completed food safety training or have appropriate skills and knowledge before handling the food.
Training topics
Food handler training covers safe handling, food contamination, cleaning and sanitising, and personal hygiene. Employers need to ensure skills and knowledge are adequate and current for the activities carried out.
A separate supervisor requirement
A Food Safety Supervisor certificate has separate recognition requirements. A general awareness certificate or HACCP completion certificate must not be presented as FSS certification. Check the requirements of the relevant food regulator and the business’s activities.
Further guidance
Online awareness training supports learning. It does not replace workplace-specific risk controls, instruction, supervision or any required licence or nationally recognised training.