Saskatoon First Aid is a training provider approved by the Saskatoon local health authorities, meaning the credentials we award students with is valid all over the city and the province of Saskatchewan. You have two training options – basic or advanced food safety courses, both available at Saskatoon First Aid.
Saskatoon Food Safety Certification
Do you need certification and training in food safety? We have made an online application form available on our website. You don’t need to download the form, simply fill up the empty boxes with all needed details and click submit. All requests are processed during business hours so you can expect a confirmation e-mail or call from us by then.
We encourage our prospective students to reach us via e-mail or telephone call too. If you want to visit the training center in the business district of Saskatoon, go ahead! We will be glad to assist you, as long as you visit us during business
Choosing Your Program
At Saskatoon First Aid, we offer food safety training in two levels. The basic level (“FoodSafe 1”) covers introductory topics on foodborne illness and home management, microbiology, work hygiene and sanitation, and other basic concepts and skills. FoodSafe 1 is eight hours long (either a single 8-hour session or two 4-hour sessions), completed in one day.
FoodSafe 2 is a twelve-hour course completed over 2 days. It has an advanced curriculum, focusing on management concepts and skills for handling a food establishment. This level of training targets owners and supervisory staff members, but anyone with a FoodSafe 1 credential can enroll.
The focus of food safety training is to teach food service workers how to keep the food handling process safe. This ensures that food products from a food facility are safe to be sold and consumed by the public. Safety and sanitation encompasses every step of the food handling process, from buying raw products to storage. In restaurants, the process ends with proper housekeeping (e.g. dishwashing).
Why Study Food Safety
According to the Canadian health authorities, there are more than four million people who become infected with foodborne illness annually. These cases, while largely self-limiting, are rarely reported to local health authorities, making it hard to get a general picture of the foodborne illnesses that affect the public. Two million people all over the world die each year because of diarrheal complications – a scary number for a disease that goes away in a few days. If that isn’t reason enough to learn about Saskatoon Food Safety Certification, we don’t know what else is.