Getting Started for Home-based Food Hygiene Program

Dear Participants,

🎉🎉 Welcome to the Course! 

Welcome to “Food Safety Made Easy : Practical Food Hygiene Kit for Home-based Food Business Owners”. We’re excited to have you here! This course is designed specifically for newbies in the home-based food business like you, including food businesses such as baking,  meal preparation,  catering services for small events, jams, preserves, specialty sauces and dressings (e.g. pickles, jams, jellies) to sell at local markets or online, snacks, herb and spice blends and repacking and etc.

This pack is essential for those who are eager to master the essential practices of food hygiene in food service industries. Start your business RIGHT ! 

In this course, you will acquire the knowledge necessary to establish a basic, safe and hygienic environment for food service industry, ensuring compliance with the latest applicable Malaysia regulations while safeguarding the integrity of your food business.

This course consists of 2 parts :

📍 Part 1 : Food Hygiene Control Program (we suggest completing this part first before transitioning to part 2) 

📍 Part 2 : Customize Your Own SOP Pack (To complete this part last)

✅ Part 1

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

✔️ Understand the Importance of Food Hygiene:

1. Definition and importance of food hygiene
2. Understanding food hygiene as the foundation in home-based business 
3. Understanding food hygiene as the foundation in food business
4. Impact on business due to poor food hygiene
5. Recognize how proper food hygiene practices can prevent foodborne illnesses

✔️ Understand the essential elements of Food Hyigene Control Program:

1. Key component of Food Hyigene Control Program
2. Role of business owner in Food Hyigene Control Program
3. Planning for an effective Food Hyigene Control Program

😊 Start it Right, Operation Control is the KEY 😊

1. Overview of Food Hyigene Control Program Implementation
2. Checkpoint 1 : Workplace Cleanliness
3. Checkpoint 2 : Food Handler
4. Checkpoint 3 : Operation Control

✅ Part 2

Throughout this module, you will go through a cycle of post training application process, in accordance with below:

👉🏻 Course Revision

• Participants will be able to refresh and  strengthen their understanding of the main points from what they learned in the training via this  course revision approach 

👉🏻 Conduct Self-Assessments

• Participants will perform self-assessments to evaluate their existing food safety practices based on the knowledge or theory learned from the training. This approach is to promote critical thinking skills and helps to reinforce the key concepts learned

👉🏻 Develop Action Plans for Implementation

• Participants will create a personalised action plan detailing how they will carry out the improvement to close out the gaps identified from self-assessment

We encourage you to engage actively, leave your questions via email (info@magcolm.my) to our learning specialist and make the most of this learning experience. Let’s get started on this journey to food safety and success!

Please take a moment to read through the 2 videos on setting up food business and various food safety program introduction in Malaysia before we dive into the next lesson.