Food Safety and HACCP Training Level 5
This Food Safety and HACCP Training Level 5 course provides a practical, CPD-accredited understanding of HACCP systems, food safety legislation, hazard control, monitoring, auditing, and compliance. Designed for managers, supervisors, and food safety professionals, it supports confident, real-world application of food safety management systems in UK food businesses.
Overview
What You’ll Learn
Overview
When food safety procedures are clear, monitored, and documented properly, businesses operate with far greater control. This Food Safety and HACCP Training Level 5 course is a practical and structured way to understand how HACCP supports safer food handling, stronger compliance, and more effective day-to-day food safety management across UK food businesses.
It explains advanced food safety and HACCP topics in a clear and manageable way so you can build confidence without feeling overwhelmed. You will learn how food safety legislation, hazard analysis, critical control points, critical limits, monitoring procedures, corrective action, verification, documentation, auditing, and emergency planning all connect within a working food safety system. Step by step, the course helps you understand how HACCP works in practice, not just as a theory.
This CPD-accredited course supports professional development for managers, supervisors, HACCP team members, quality assurance staff, and business owners with food safety responsibilities. If you want to strengthen your understanding of food safety management systems, improve compliance awareness, and build more confidence in monitoring, auditing, and review processes, this course offers a clear and practical place to start.
Key Highlights
- Learn how HACCP supports food safety management in UK food businesses
- Understand food safety legislation, food safety hazards, and system planning
- Explore how to create, implement, monitor, and review a HACCP-based system
- Build awareness of verification, documentation, auditing, and emergency procedures
- Study online at your own pace with flexible access
- Receive a CPD certificate on successful completion
Accreditation & Recognition
This course offers recognised CPD training to support practical professional development in food safety and HACCP management. It is designed to help learners build useful workplace knowledge through flexible online study while improving confidence in food safety systems, monitoring, documentation, and compliance-focused responsibilities.
- CPD-accredited and designed for professional development
- 100% online, flexible, self-paced learning for UK learners
- Online multiple-choice exam with unlimited retakes
- Digital CPD certificate available on successful completion
- Supports stronger workplace understanding of HACCP, auditing, and food safety management systems
Assessment & Certification
The assessment process is simple, clear, and designed to support your learning. There are no hidden fees, and everything is structured to help you progress with confidence at your own pace. You’ll complete an online multiple-choice exam with instant results, so you know exactly how you’re doing. A 60% pass mark is required, and you’ll have unlimited retakes, giving you the freedom to improve without pressure.
Once you pass, you’ll be able to order a digital CPD-accredited certificate. The hardcopy version will be available for an additional price of £24.99 only. This CPD-accredited certificate of achievement confirms that you have completed the Diploma in Xero Accounting and Bookkeeping course and supports your ongoing professional development.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is designed for learners who already hold, or are moving towards, greater responsibility in food safety, HACCP planning, compliance, supervision, or food operations. It is especially suitable for professionals who need stronger system-level understanding rather than basic food hygiene awareness alone.
- Food safety managers
- Catering and kitchen managers
- Food production supervisors
- HACCP team members
- Quality assurance staff
- Compliance support staff
- Hospitality professionals with food safety responsibility
- Business owners responsible for food handling systems
Career Opportunities & Progression
Completing this course can support progression into food safety, compliance, supervisory, and quality-focused roles where HACCP understanding is valuable. It helps strengthen your profile for broader workplace responsibility by building practical knowledge in food safety systems, monitoring, documentation, auditing, and review.
Potential roles you may explore:
- Food Safety Manager
- HACCP Coordinator
- Quality Assurance Support Officer
- Catering Supervisor
- Food Production Supervisor
- Compliance Support Officer
Key Skills You’ll Gain
These skills are designed to improve your food safety awareness and support your ability to manage HACCP-related responsibilities in a clearer, more structured, and more confident way.
- Hazard identification and food safety risk awareness
- Food safety decision-making in operational settings
- Critical control point monitoring awareness
- Corrective action planning and response thinking
- Verification and review understanding
- Food safety documentation and record-keeping awareness
- Internal audit awareness and system-checking confidence
- Stronger compliance communication across food operations
Why Study with Royal Open College
Royal Open College is a trusted UK training provider offering practical, CPD-accredited courses designed to build useful workplace knowledge. Our food safety courses focus on clarity, structure, and responsible professional development, helping learners strengthen their understanding without confusion or exaggerated claims.
- CPD-accredited online training designed for practical learning
- Clear course structure from HACCP foundations to auditing and review
- Useful coverage for managers, supervisors, QA staff, and compliance-focused learners
- Flexible online study that fits around professional responsibilities
- Transparent course content and learner-friendly course design
Enrol today to build practical HACCP knowledge, strengthen your food safety understanding, and study online at your own pace with Royal Open College.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 21 Lessons
- Lifetime Access
- Food Safety and HACCP Training Level 521
- 1.1Module 01: Introduction to HACCP
- 1.2Module 02: HACCP and Food Safety Legislation
- 1.3Module 03: Food Safety Hazards
- 1.4Module 04: Planning a HACCP System
- 1.5Module 05: Creating the HACCP System
- 1.6Module 06: Principle 1 – Hazard Analysis
- 1.7Module 07: Principle 2 – Critical Control Points
- 1.8Module 08: Principle 3 – Critical Limits
- 1.9Module 09: Principle 4 – Monitoring Critical Control Points
- 1.10Module 10: Principle 5 – Corrective Action
- 1.11Module 11: Principle 6 – Verification of the HACCP System
- 1.12Module 12: Principle 7 – Documentation
- 1.13Module 13: Implementing the HACCP System
- 1.14Module 14: HACCP Alternatives
- 1.15Module 15: Monitoring and Verification
- 1.16Module 16: Food Safety Auditing
- 1.17Module 17: Emergency Procedures
- 1.18Module 18: Food Safety Management System
- 1.19Module 19: Audit Reporting, Review and Continuous Improvement
- 1.20Order Your Certificate!
- 1.21Leave a Review!
Course Features
- Lectures 21
- Quiz 0
- Duration 6 hours
- Skill level All Levels
- Language English
- Students 3028
- Assessments Yes
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