Lesson One: Exploring food safety

Student Activity: Exploring food safety

Learning Intensions:

Recognise and describe how people working in design and technologies occupations consider factors that impact on design decisions. 

Success Criteria:  

Identify how food safety can impact the quality of food solutions (ACTDEK045)

Learning Experience:

1. Explore the text below, as you are reading the content, consider the three topics of hygiene. You are to create a visual representation (Sketch to Stretch) for the three topics and how they could be represented in our kitchen environment at school.

2. Use your visual representation of the topics to discuss, share and explain your understandings of how these topics connect to our kitchen environment at school to a peer.

3. Add any further thoughts from the discussion to your sketch.

4. Discuss, share and explain your thinking and understandings from the text with a new peer.

5. Individually now, Power Write for 3 minutes to recognise and describe your thinking and understandings from the text, in particular, describe common food safety issues you may experience in the kitchen here at school.

6. Reflect on the food safety concerns that could affect your working performance in the school kitchen environment, recognise and describe how these could impact on kitchen safety regulations for the kitchen  through a Double, Double, Double activity.

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Hygiene and Kitchen Safety:

Keeping yourself and others safe in the kitchen is crucial. Knowing how to use utensils and equipment safely reduces the risk of injury, while producing and storing food appropriately reduces the risk of contamination. These safety precautions are not just for home and school, Australia has regulations at national, state and local levels that set strict guidelines and standards that businesses must meet to make sure their food is prepared safely.  Breaches of these rules can result in a business being fined or shut down, it is the law to maintain safety standards at all times in a hospitality environment. 

Hygiene:

Personal Hygiene

One of the most effective ways we have to protect ourselves and others from illness is good personal hygiene. This means washing your hands, especially, but also your body. It means being careful not to cough or sneeze on others, cleaning things that you touch if you are unwell, putting items such as tissues (that may have germs) into a bin, and using protection (like gloves) when you might be at risk of catching an infection. 

Personal hygiene, such as bathing, is very much dependent on the culture in which you live. In some cultures, it is expected that you will wash your body at least every day and use deodorants to stop body smells. Other cultures have different expectations.

Environmental Hygiene

It is important to make sure you keep your workspace clean at all times, it is important to use correct cleaning agents and sanitizers to prevent bacterial growth and discourage vermin.