2020 NAQ Nutrition - Level 1 - Safe Food Handling for the Early Years Sector

Are you up to date with the food safety requirements in early years settings? Our Online Food Safety training covers the food safety basics that all staff working in the early years sector need to be aware of. Our Online Food Safety training can help settings meet and exceed their requirements under the National Quality Standards.

Topics include:

• The importance of food safety in early childhood settings
• Potentially hazardous foods
• The temperature danger zone
• Expressed breastmilk and infant formula
• Receiving food and cold/frozen/dry storage
• Food preparation
• Grooming, personal habits and handwashing 
• Cross contamination
• Cleaning
• Cooking, cooling, thawing and reheating 
• Serving and self service
• Allergen control
• Food recall

NAQ Nutrition (the Queensland division of Nutrition Australia) is a not for profit community based organisation, providing education and support for nutrition professionals and the community.

NAQ Nutrition offers an expert team of Accredited Practising Dietitians, Nutritionists and Health Promotion Professionals to ensure the very best in nutrition education and health promotion.

Food Foundations is a program of NAQ Nutrition, for early childhood settings.

We offer a range of support services to early childhood settings covering nutrition and food safety, these include

• newsletters
• resources and posters
• fact sheets
• staff education
• menu assessments
• food safety supervisor training
• parent education

For more information on the Food Foundations service visit our website.

NAQ Nutrition also has approved food safety auditors. So if you’re a licensed food business in Queensland, NAQ Nutrition’s experienced food safety auditors can assist with:

• Food safety program development
• Food safety program audits
• Onsite compliance audits

Please contact the food safety team at foodsafety@naqld.org or call 07 3257 4393 for more information.