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Queensland Health requires certain types of food businesses, especially those involved in the preparation or service of high-risk foods, to have a Food Safety Supervisor on staff. The certification focuses intensely on preventing contamination and the correct response to food safety incidents. Similar to NSW and VIC, the certification must come from an accredited RTO.
State Summary
Regulating Body: Queensland Health
Key Legislation: Food Act 2006 (QLD)
Certificates Applicable:
- Community & Health Food Safety Handler Refresher
- Community & Health Food Safety Supervisor
- Food Processing Industry FSS (Food Safety Supervisor)
- Food Processing Industry FSS Refresher (Food Safety Supervisor Refresher)
- Health & Community Services FSS Refresher (Level 1 & 2)
- Health & Community Services Food Safety Handler
- Hospitality & Retail Food Safety Handler – Level 1
- Hospitality & Retail FSS (Level 1 & 2)
- Hospitality & Retail FSS Refresher
Food Safety Supervisor QLD
Required for licensed food businesses, such as restaurants, cafes, and catering services.
Food Safety Supervisor Requirement
Food Safety Supervisor Training
Food Safety Supervisor Renewal
Find the perfect match SUPERVISOR certificate
Food Safety Handler QLD
All food handlers in licensed food businesses must complete food safety training relevant to their role.
Food Safety Handler Requirement
Food Safety Handler Training
Food Safety Handler Renewal
Find the perfect match HANDLER certificate
Opportunities in QLD Food Safety?
In Queensland, the booming tourism and hospitality industry provides numerous roles for those with food safety certification. Positions in hotels, resorts, and tourist attractions are plentiful, alongside roles in retail food outlets, community kitchens, and the growing food truck sector. Food handlers are also needed in hospitals, aged care facilities, and regional food businesses, ensuring safe food practices in various settings.
Food Safety Handler
- Tourism and Hospitality: Jobs in hotels, resorts, and tourist attractions with food services.
- Retail Food Outlets: Roles in supermarkets, bakeries, and specialty food stores.
- Community Services: Positions in community kitchens, shelters, and non-profit organizations providing food services.
- Food Trucks: Opportunities in the mobile food industry, working in food trucks and pop-up stalls.
- Remote and Regional Areas: Jobs in regional food businesses, including cafes, restaurants, and food services in remote areas.
Food Safety Supervisor
- Tourism and Hospitality: Roles in hotels, resorts, and tourist attractions with food services.
- Remote and Regional Areas: Supervisory positions in remote mining camps and regional health services.
- Food Truck and Mobile Catering: Opportunities in the growing food truck industry.
- Community Services: Positions in community kitchens and non-profit organisations providing food services.
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Hospitality or Retail?
If you need a Food Safety Supervisor qualification for a hospitality or retail food business, you will need Level 1 & Level 2 – unit codes SITXFSA001 & SITXFSA002.
See here: Hospitality & Retail Food Safety Courses
(if you are based in NSW then please look here: NSW Food Safety Courses)
Community & Health?
If you want a Food Safety Supervisor qualification for working in early childhood, aged care, and hospitals, then you will need to choose HLTFSE001 and HLTFSE007, and then HLTFSE005.
See here: Community & Health Food Safety Courses
Food Processing Industry?
Bakeries, food processing, and food manufacturers require the following food safety units FBPFSY1002 and FBPFSY2002.
Whilst there are no prerequisites to completing the majority of the Food Safety Certificates, it is crucial to enrol in the course that is relevant to your industry of work. Students complete the courses for a diverse range of reasons, but completing coursework outside your industry of work, may not qualify you for your relevant sector.
Regarding the hospitality & retail industry, all units of competency in the relevant courses are transferable to the retail sector and vice versa. Community and health services units are only applicable in that field.
For advice on the right course for you, we encourage you to speak with your employer or local council about the requirements in your State or Territory. Alternatively, you may get in contact with a member of the CFT team at 1300 665 633 or via support@cft.edu.au.
No – all CFT courses are completely online and are designed to allow students to complete the requirements at their own pace.
Students can log in and out as they wish to pick up on training where they left off. Courses are accessible at any time, and anywhere, with access available 24/7, 365 days per year.
Compared to the other states’ food safety courses, NSW operates under different legislation, requiring different competencies.
The NSW Food Authority has a prerequisite for the subsequent certificate to be issued in the New South Wales Food Authority format. As CFT is an approved provider and RTO, we are supplied with these ‘blank’ certificates, which will be filled in with the student’s; details and recorded by the NSW Food Authority upon completion of their relevant food safety courses.
If you are based in NSW then please look here: NSW Food Safety Courses)
Studying at your own pace will see completion times vary between students.
How long it takes you to complete the course will depend on the amount of time you have to study and complete the course, any existing food safety knowledge, and other external factors.
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