Supporting safe food practices is essential in early childhood education and care. This course provides educators with the knowledge and practical skills to manage food safely, prevent contamination, and role model healthy hygiene habits to children.
Designed specifically for early childhood settings, the course explores safe food handling, food storage, allergy awareness, and hygiene routines that align with National Quality Standard requirements. Educators will learn how to support children during mealtimes, promote healthy eating environments, and reduce the risk of foodborne illness.
Whether preparing snacks, assisting with lunchboxes, or supervising shared mealtimes, early childhood professionals have a responsibility to protect children’s health. This course helps educators understand their role in maintaining high standards of food safety and hygiene across all areas of practice.
This course is ideal for anyone working in early childhood education and care who is involved in the preparation, handling, serving, or supervision of food. It is designed to support educators in meeting their duty of care while embedding safe and hygienic food practices into everyday routines with children.
This includes:
Early Childhood Educators (Certificate III and Diploma qualified)
Room Leaders and Team Leaders
Centre Directors and Educational Leaders
Approved Providers and Nominated Supervisors
Family Day Care Educators
Relief Educators and Support Staff
Staff involved in food preparation or lunchbox supervision
Whether you're supporting children during mealtimes, preparing shared snacks, or maintaining hygiene standards across your learning environment, this course will strengthen your knowledge and practice in line with sector expectations and safety requirements.
This course is delivered 100% online and is designed to be completed at your own pace. With approximately one hour of content, it offers a practical and efficient learning experience for busy early childhood professionals.
Once enrolled, you’ll have 8 weeks of access to the course. This means you can log in and out as needed, revisit the content at any time, and complete the learning when it suits you. Whether you choose to complete it in one sitting or spread it out over a few days or weeks, the course is designed to be flexible and accessible across devices.
To support your learning, the course includes a short knowledge check at the end. This allows you to reflect on what you’ve learned and demonstrate your understanding of key food safety and hygiene principles. Upon successful completion, you’ll receive a certificate of completion, which can be used to support your ongoing professional development and contribute to your service’s training records.
There are no prerequisites to enrol, and the course is suitable for both individual educators and entire early childhood teams. Services looking to embed consistent food safety practices across their team may find this course particularly useful as part of their internal training or Quality Improvement Plan (QIP).
This course is ideal for early childhood educators, room leaders, directors, and anyone involved in the handling or supervision of food in an early learning environment. It supports both individual professional development and service-wide training.
Yes. The course is well-suited to family day care educators who are responsible for preparing, serving, or supervising children’s meals. It helps meet health and hygiene requirements in home-based care settings.
This course supports NQS Quality Area 2: Children’s Health and Safety by strengthening safe food handling and hygiene practices. It can be used as evidence of ongoing professional learning and health and safety planning.
The course takes approximately 1 hour to complete. It is self-paced, allowing you to log in and out at your convenience during your 8-week access period.
Yes. At the end of the course, you’ll complete a short knowledge check to consolidate learning and demonstrate your understanding of key food safety principles.
Yes. All participants who complete the course and knowledge check will receive a downloadable certificate of completion. This can be used for your professional development records.
Absolutely. Services can enrol multiple educators as part of team-wide professional development. This is a great way to ensure consistency in food safety practices across your service.
No. There are no prerequisites for this course. It is suitable for anyone working in an early childhood setting, regardless of qualification level.
The course covers food safety basics, safe food handling and storage, allergy awareness, cross-contamination, hygiene routines, and role modelling safe practices with children.
This is a non-accredited short course designed to support best practice in early childhood education. It is not a formal unit of competency but offers valuable training aligned with sector expectations.
Yes. The course is fully online and mobile-responsive, so you can complete it using a desktop, tablet, or smartphone.
You can enrol directly through the Making Education website. Once enrolled, you will receive access instructions via email and can begin learning straight away.
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Making Education acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first people of the nation and the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and play. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children and families and recognise their continuing connection to Culture, Land, Water, and Community and we pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging. Making Education celebrates and welcomes people from all cultures, religions, spiritualities, ages, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities & backgrounds and will ensure that all children and their families will be supported to express their culture and enjoy their cultural rights.
