Compliance Training For Restaurants

Compliance training for restaurants is usually planned around food safety, which is necessary and is not where most enforcement attention lands.

Food handling and hygiene requirements apply, and in many settings a nominated food safety supervisor is required as well. Responsible service of alcohol requirements apply wherever alcohol is being served.

The larger exposure for many venues is pay. Hospitality runs on part-time and casual staff, split shifts, penalty rates, overtime and allowances, and award interpretation errors compound quietly across a whole roster.

Young workers are the other significant risk. A large share of hospitality staff are in their first job, which raises the obligation to instruct and supervise properly, and lowers the likelihood that anybody will raise a concern about anything.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand publishes food standards. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s food safety course and hand hygiene training course.