Utah Food Handler Training & Permit

Utah Food Handler Course Description
The Utah Food Handler online training course will teach you the basics of food safety principles, regulations, and techniques to maintain a food-safe environment in a Utah food establishment.

This course will take you step-by-step through everything you need to know, including food safety definitions, safe hygienic practices, safe food temperatures, cross-contamination of food, and food-related illnesses.

At the conclusion of the course, the learner will be tested on their knowledge of the learning objectives and content. You will be required to pass a comprehensive test and must pass with a 75% or better. Upon successfully passing the exam, the learner will be issued a Utah Food Handler Certificate of Completion – which is valid for 30 days.

You will also be automatically registered with the Utah Health Department and will receive your Utah Food Handler Permit from the Utah Health Department by mail. The Utah Food Handler Permit issued is valid in Utah for 3 years.

Audience:  Chefs, cooks, mobile food vendors, bartenders, host/hostesses that handle food, bussers, caterers, wait staff,servers, supervisors and managers, food warehouse staff, and convenience store (c-store) clerks.

Course Hours: 4 hrs

Permit Valid for: 3 years

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of the Food Handler Training Course students will be able to:

• Identify food safety: its importance, goals, benefits, impact, and proper adherence
• Identify the importance food safety training: issues, regulations, and techniques to maintain a food-safe environment
• Identify the types of foodborne illness and food spoilage and their causes and signs
• Identify the types of food contamination: biological, physical and chemical
• Enact the proper food temperature controls and time practices
• Enact the proper procedures to safely prepare, handle and store food
• Implement proper personal hygiene and health practices in the food workplace
• Implement the proper procedures of purchasing, receiving and storing food
• Enact proper cleaning and sanitation methods in the food workplace
• Identify the signs and enact the eradication procedures for pest infestation

Course Topics:

Lesson 1: Introduction to Food Safety
Lesson 2: Biohazards, Foodborne Disease and Food Spoilage
Lesson 3: Contamination
Lesson 4: Food and Temperature Control
Lesson 5: Preventing Food Contamination
Lesson 6: Food Receiving and Storage
Lesson 7: Sanitizing
Lesson 8: Pest Control

End of Course – Utah Food Handler Training Certificate
At the conclusion of the course, the learner will be tested on their knowledge of the learning objectives and content. You will be required to pass a comprehensive test and must pass with a 75% or better. Upon successfully passing the exam, the learner will be issued a Utah Food Handler Certificate of Completion.

Your Utah Food Handler Training Certificate of Completion will be valid for 30 days. Print this and keep it with you at work.

To print your Certificate of Completion please go to the “My Courses” section of your profile, and from the “Show” drop-down list select “Completed Courses”. Once selected, please click on the “Print Certificate” icon in blue to print your Certificate of Completion.

Receive Utah Food Handler Permit in Mail
You will be automatically registered with the Utah Health Department and will receive your Utah Food Handler Permit from the Utah Health Department by mail. The Utah Food Handler Permit issued is valid in Utah for 3 years.

Food Handler Course Accreditation – ANSI Accredited ID 0975
Our Learn2Serve food handler training course program has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in accordance with the standard set by American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). This national level certification for food handlers is valid in all 50 states.
Source: ANSI – Food Handler Training Course

Gaining an accreditation from ANSI for the Food Handler Certificate Training Program means quality training that produces a food handler workforce more qualified than those without this Certification. Be a certified food handler. Take the ANSI-ASTM  Food Handler Certificate Training Program today!