A food safety certificate helps to show that a person has the fundamental knowledge and skills that are necessary to handle food safely — in most provinces and territories, they are legal requirements.
The information in our safe food handler course comes from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Food Safety: A Guide for Ontario’s Foodhandlers manual. The course covers the following topics:
- Introduction
- Foodborne Illness
- Microorganisms
- Time and Temperature
- Receiving and Storage
- Microbiological Contamination
- Personal Hygiene
- Cleaning and Sanitizing
- Pest Control
- Food Safety Management
- Exam
Length to complete the course
You have 12 weeks to complete this course; however, completing all chapters will take approximately 3 hours in total.
Completing your Safe Food Handler certificate
Once you complete the online course, you can call your local NWHU office or 1-800-830-5978 to book your certification exam. The fee for the exam is $25. You must fill out the Safe Food Handler Course/Exam Registration and bring it along with your $25 payment, for the exam only, to your local NWHU office on the day of the scheduled exam. You will write the exam at your local NWHU office.
To write the Safe Food Handler certification exam, you must provide proof of completion of this course. Once you complete this course, you can click the “Proof Of Completion” button to view and download it.