Food Safety Hub

Welcome to your Food Safety Hub, your one-stop destination for comprehensive food safety training, consultancy services, and online learning. We are dedicated to ensuring that businesses across the food industry meet the highest standards of food safety and hygiene. Explore our range of services designed to help you maintain a safe and compliant environment for your customers and employees.

The Food Hub at EHS International was founded by Chris Mee and is operated by Denise O’ Callaghan, M.A. Chris Mee has provided training for over 25 years and Denise O’ Callaghan has operated food businesses for 20 years. EHS International Food Hub is a centre of excellence for food businesses offering a full suite of services necessary for the smooth running of food businesses and the compliance with FSAI legislative requirements.

The Food Hub offers the following services: Food Safety Training, Food Safety Auditing, Food Safety Legal & Regulatory Advice Hub.

The Food Safety Training Division offers food training courses of all levels, both in a class room setting and online. Our training ranges from HACCP training for staff that are new to the food sector to the design of food safety management systems.

• HACCP Level 1 Food Safety
• HACCP Level 2 Food Safety

Our Food Safety Auditing Division offers auditing and consultancy services to provide hands-on, bespoke advice. We implement, review and revise Food Safety System to ensure that you have the necessary processes in place for your external and internal audits. We also provide consultancy services extending to hygiene assured and HACCP plan design/updates

Through our Legal and Regulatory Advice Hub, we work with you to ensure you are meeting your legal obligations. If you are a start-up business or long established business, we can review your system to ensure you are adhere to the current legislative requirements. We can also ensure products are correctly labelled with allergen declarations, health claims and nutritional information.

• Level 1 Food Safety Manufacturing
• Level 2 Food Safety Manufacturing
• Level 1 Food Safety Catering
• Level 2 Food Safety Catering
• Level 1 Food Safety Retail
• Level 2 Food Safety Retail
• Supervising Food Safety – Level 3
• Achieving Food Hygiene Rating Level 5
• Allergen Awareness
• Nutrition & Hydration

Please contact us if you wish to create a bundle of courses for your employees or yourself and we can offer this to you at a discounted rate.

This course teaches the essential food skills laid out by the FSAI (the Food Safety Authority of Ireland).

Course Content

• Introduction
• Personal hygiene including illness reporting, handwashing, PPE & unhygienic practices
• Cleaning & staff facilities
• Safe food handling & Safety Signs
• Waste management & Pest Control
• HACCP- Critical Control Points

This course teaches both essential food safety and the more advanced details of working to HACCP standards as laid out by the FSAI (Food Safety Authority of Ireland).

Course Contents:

• Food Safety and Hygiene
• Food Safety Culture
• Food Safety Hazards
• Pre requisites controls
• HACCP
• Documentation and Record Keeping
• Legal Responsibilities for Food Handlers

Food Safety Hub New Centre

Here, in EHS International’s Food Hub we have gathered useful resources and articles that may be of assistance to you in the operation of your food business. It is important that we all take time out from the day to day running of our business to do some blue sky thinking to help us move forward strategically. Perhaps you need to research your eligibility for grant aid assistance; want to listen to the latest podcast on food trends or aim to understand the global food vision for the coming year. Our news centre aims to help you to find the information you require, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible. This news hub will be updated regularly with new articles, blogs and alerts that are relevant to all of us that are involved in the food sector.