Food Safety Methods, Hazards & Control
| Entry level | Year 11 and above |
| Duration | 1 day per week,
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| Time | 8.45am–3pm |
| Location | Rotokauri Campus, Windows Training Restaurant, L Block |
| Total cost | $180 (GST inc.) per student |
| Dates | Please email if you would like to set up a date. |
Unit | Title | Level | Credit |
167 | Practise food safety methods in a food business | 2 | 4 |
| 20666 | Demonstrate knowledge of basic food contamination hazards and prevention of cross contamination of food in a food business. | 2 | 2 |
What's it all about?
This course introduces young people to tertiary study in the food and beverage preparation and service field. It provides students with the necessary skills and knowledge to prepare and serve food safely and identify food contamination hazards and methods of control. They will also get to experience student life at the Centre for Hospitality on the Wintec Rotokauri campus. These two unit standards are the food safety qualifications recognised by councils, and the food and beverage preparation and service industries.Upon successful completion students can cross-credit:
- 6 credits towards the Certificate in Catering (Level 3) or;
- 6 credits towards the National Certificate in Hospitality (Food and Beverage Service) (Level 3).
Further Training opportunities in 2020
In 2020, other than the previously listed courses and tasters, we may have the capacity to be able to provide schools with support in a more flexible way to suit a particular STAR programme.
If you are looking to:
- Add more to your hospitality classes
- Want your students to gain a unit standard
- Give your students a hands-on experience
- Arrange a tutor to come out to your school for a session
Please email your interest and we will see how we can accommodate.
What to bring / wear?
Students will be working in our trainee commercial kitchens, they must wear long pants, have leather topped shoes, hair to be tied back, no facial jewellery or other jewellery to be worn.
Ready to book
Students - please talk to your careers advisor as you need to book through your school.
Please Note: If your students wish to be booked into a STAR that is offering Unit Standards, a copy of the KAMAR print out for ID and proof of NSN number MUST be scanned through to star@wintec.ac.nz before the student can attend.
Careers advisors please go to the Booking Form to book.