by Saju Ahmed | Oct 16, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses, Inspections and Ratings
What Happens During an EHO Inspection? A Business Checklist Nobody enjoys looking up from service and seeing an unfamiliar person with a lanyard and a clipboard. The stomach drops a little even when you have nothing to hide. Most of that anxiety comes from not knowing...
by Saju Ahmed | Oct 13, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses, Inspections and Ratings
How to Improve Your Food Hygiene Rating to 5 Stars A 3 stings more than a 1 in some ways. A 1 tells you something is badly wrong, and you know where to start. A 3 tells you that you are nearly there, which leaves most owners guessing about what nearly means. The good...
by Saju Ahmed | Oct 9, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses, Inspections and Ratings
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme Explained (0 to 5 Ratings) Most business owners meet the food hygiene rating scheme twice. Once when the sticker goes up in the window, and once when the number on it is lower than they expected. The scheme is not mysterious, though....
by Saju Ahmed | Oct 6, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses
Food Hygiene for Food Delivery Drivers and Couriers Delivery drivers rarely think of themselves as part of the food industry. You pick up a sealed bag and you drop it off. The cooking was somebody else’s job. Food law sees it differently. The moment you take...
by Saju Ahmed | Oct 2, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses
Food Hygiene for Takeaways and Mobile Catering Units Takeaways and food vans get held to the same standard as a restaurant kitchen. The difference is that they have to hit it with less space, less water, less storage, and often one pair of hands. That is not a...
by Saju Ahmed | Sep 29, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses
Food Hygiene for Childminders: What the Rules Require Childminders get a lot of conflicting advice about food. One person says you need a certificate, another says you do not, and a third says you have to register with the council on top of Ofsted. The rules are...
by Saju Ahmed | Sep 25, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses
Food Hygiene for Schools, Nurseries and Early Years Settings Feeding a room full of children is not the same job as feeding a room full of adults. The margin for error is thinner, the consequences are worse, and the number of staff involved is far higher than most...
by Saju Ahmed | Sep 22, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses
Food Hygiene Training for Care Homes and Domiciliary Care Care providers already carry more compliance than almost any other sector. Medication, safeguarding, moving and handling, infection control, staffing ratios. Food hygiene often slides down the list. Then an...
by Saju Ahmed | Sep 18, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses
Food Hygiene for Retail and Convenience Stores There is a quiet assumption in food retail that hygiene rules are really a kitchen problem. No hobs, no fryers, no chefs, so surely less to worry about. Environmental health officers do not see it that way. A convenience...
by Saju Ahmed | Sep 15, 2026 | Food Hygiene and Safety Courses
Food Hygiene Training for Catering Staff: What You Need You have hired a new chef de partie and two floor staff. Somebody asks whether they need a food hygiene certificate before Friday. Half the team says yes, half says only the kitchen needs one, and nobody is...
