FSAI Level 2 Food Safety Skills case studies
FSAI Level 2 Food Safety Skills · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The FSAI Level 2 Food Safety Skills Award is a knowledge-based qualification for people who handle or manage food in Ireland. It is typically taken by catering assistants, deli and retail staff, kitchen porters, care-home cooks, and supervisors who need to show they understand safe food handling. The FSAI Level 2 Food Safety Skills case studies are 5 cases and about 3,442 words.
1The Deli Counter at 2pm
It is 14:10 on a warm Friday at a small supermarket with a two-deck serve-over deli counter. The counter assistant has just taken a tray of sliced cooked ham from the walk-in chiller (recorded at 4°C that morning) and arranged it on the top shelf of the display, which is open-fronted and sits near the shop entrance doors.
713 words, about 4 min2The Vomiting Chef
A 24-year-old commis chef at a 60-cover restaurant reports for the Saturday evening shift at 16:00. At 15:40 he had vomited once in the staff toilet and now feels 'a bit off' but says he can work.
667 words, about 3 min3Cooling the Curry
A hospital catering kitchen cooks 40 litres of chicken curry at 11:00 for the next day's lunch service. The cook decants it into four shallow stainless pans, each about 10 cm deep, and places them on a bench in the prep area to cool 'so they don't warm the fridge up'.
660 words, about 3 min4The Pest Sighting in the Dry Store
During a routine opening check at a bakery, the supervisor finds mouse droppings on a shelf of bagged flour in the dry store and gnaw marks on the corner of one 25 kg bag. The dry store door has a 2 cm gap at the bottom, and a delivery of flour arrived yesterday from a supplier whose van was parked with its rear doors open for 20 minutes.
691 words, about 3 min5The New Starter and the Sushi Bar
A sushi counter in a food hall hires a new food handler who starts on Monday. On her first morning she is given a knife, a cutting board, and a tray of raw salmon, and told to start preparing nigiri for the lunch rush.
711 words, about 4 min