Highfield’s food safety qualifications are intended for anyone working in catering, hospitality, or manufacturing settings where food hygiene is essential as food is prepared, cooked, served, or produced. Typical environments may include pubs, hotels, restaurants, retail, factories, contract catering, fast-food outlets, hospitals, care, and nursing homes, schools, prisons, and the armed forces.
Course Objectives
Highfiled UK- COTHM-UHS
Highfield’s food safety qualifications are intended for anyone working in catering, hospitality, or manufacturing settings where food hygiene is essential as food is prepared, cooked, served, or produced.
Typical environments may include pubs, hotels, restaurants, retail, factories, contract catering, fast-food outlets, hospitals, care, nursing homes, schools, prisons, and the armed forces.
This qualification aims to prepare learners for employment, or to support a current position within a low-risk role, where there is an element of food handling.
This could include bar workers, waiting staff, health care workers, kitchen porters and stock/store room staff
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On successful completion of this qualification, learners may wish to continue their development by undertaking one of the following qualifications:
- Highfield Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering (RQF)
- Hospitality competency-based qualifications

