Food Safety Hazards

Food Safety Hazards

Lesson Objective

To know the four types of FOOD safety hazards and the measures to prevent them from causing harm.

Multiple Choice

What is something that could cause harm to someone's health or physically injure them?

• A risk

• A hazard

• A control measure

• A risk assessment

So a hazard can be defined as...

‘A Hazard is a potential source of harm or adverse health effect on a person or persons’.

These are the 4 main HAZARDS that we are concerned about in Hospitality and Catering

CONTAMINATION

When one of these hazards comes into contact with food we call this contamination.

Watch the short video on the 4 hazard types

https://youtu.be/I9oBGxmDq8Q

Multiple Choice

An example of physical contamination would be...

• ice crystals on frozen food.

• bacteria on equipment.

• a cut on a food handlers finger.

• a pen top in food.

Multiple Choice

What Type of Hazard is this?

• Physical

• Chemical

• Biological

• Allergen

Multiple Choice

What Type of Hazard is this?

• Physical

• Chemical

• Biological

• Allergen

Multiple Choice

What Type of Hazard is this?

• Physical

• Chemical

• Biological

• Allergen

Multiple Choice

What Type of Hazard is this?

• Physical

• Chemical

• Biological

• Allergen

Multiple Choice

What Type of Hazard is this?

• Physical

• Chemical

• Biological

• Allergen

Multiple Choice

What Type of Hazard is this?

• Physical

• Chemical

• Biological

• Allergen

Multiple Choice

What Type of Hazard is this?

• Physical

• Chemical

• Biological

• Allergen

Open Ended

Hazard Prevention Scenario: (2 Marks)

You have made some cakes, they have been left out to cool on the counter. Your friend decides to spray the counter with a sanitizer spray.

a) What is the hazard

b) How could you prevent the hazard?

Open Ended

Hazard Prevention Scenario: (2 Marks)

You have been to the butchers for meat. It is a hot sunny day and you have left the meat in the car for 2 hours.

a) What is the hazard?

b) How could you have prevented this hazard causing any harm?

Open Ended

Hazard Prevention Scenario: (1 Mark)

Michael has long hair. He has just made a curry. He has just found a hair in the curry. What do you think he could have done wrong whilst making the curry.

Open Ended

Hazard Prevention Scenario: (4 Marks)

A restaurant has just had a delivery of some raw meat. The manager has placed it on the top shelf in the fridge. Later he finds that the packaging it came in has a few holes and blood has started to drip inside the fridge. What are the possible problems here. What should he do??

What is a Risk?

‘risk is the likelihood that a person may be harmed or suffer adverse health effects if exposed to a hazard.’