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Kitchen Safety

Health & safety in
commercial kitchens

Hot fat, wet floors, sharp steel and not enough hours — a kitchen is a workplace like no other, and generic office H&S training doesn't survive contact with one. This course is built for the environment your team actually works in.

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  • Instant QR-verified certificate
  • Built around HSA guidance
  • Free assessment retakes
  • Written for working kitchens
  • €25One-off payment
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  • 3 yearsCertificate valid
Built around HSA Guidance Health and Safety Authority
Accepted by your employer Or your money back
Built for hospitality Kitchens first, not offices
Written by a Specialist Trainer In hospitality since 1984
Your certificate

The certificate is the point — so we guarantee it.

The moment you pass, this is issued in your name — carrying a unique ID and a QR code any employer or inspector can check in seconds.

Food Safe Ireland Certificate of Completion

This certificate is awarded to

Sinéad Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh

for successfully completing

Health & Safety in Commercial Kitchens

This certificate confirms the successful completion of Health & Safety in Commercial Kitchens with Food Safe Ireland — issued in the learner's name, carrying a unique ID, and verifiable by any employer or inspector in seconds.

Adam KearnsManaging Director
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Certificate IDFSI-8K3D-2Q7X-M4PA
Date of Issue14 May 2026
Valid Until14 May 2029
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Accepted by your employer — or your money back If your employer doesn't accept your certificate within 60 days of issue, we'll refund you in full. Terms and conditions apply.

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Why it matters

A kitchen is not an office.

Most workplace safety training was written for desks and corridors. Kitchens run on heat, blades, spills and speed — and their accident book reads accordingly: burns, slips, cuts and lifting injuries, usually during service. This course takes the legal duties every employer has and applies them to the room where the pressure actually is.

Most teams need more than one course. Get every course your team needs on one plan. See All Access plans →
Inside the course

Health & Safety in Kitchens: what you'll actually learn.

Around 70 minutes

Fire, burns, chemicals, electricity, heat stress and slips — ordered by what actually injures kitchen staff.

Multiple-choice assessment

Free retakes if you need them — there's no extra charge and no catch.

Certificate valid 3 years

Issued instantly with a unique ID and QR code. Your employer can verify it in seconds.

01Introduction
02Real-life injuries in kitchens
03Fire safety
04Burns & scalds
05Chemical agents
06Electricity
07Heat stress
08Slips, trips & falls
09Conclusion & final assessment

By the end, you'll be able to

  • Spot the hazards a working kitchen actually produces
  • Prevent burns and scalds around fryers, ovens and steam
  • Keep floors and walkways from becoming the accident book
  • Lift stock, pots and deliveries without wrecking your back
  • Report hazards and incidents so they get fixed, not repeated
  • Handle cleaning chemicals without burning skin or lungs
  • Respect electricity in a room full of water and steel
  • Recognise heat stress before it drops someone mid-service
  • Use PPE properly — and know when it's required
  • Know your legal duties — and your employer's — under Irish law
Free sample · no sign-up needed

Try it before you buy it.

See exactly what the training is like — watch a sample lesson from the course and test yourself with a quick knowledge check. No account, no email, no catch.

Sample lesson
Burns, scalds & the fryerTaken directly from the course — exactly as paying learners see it
Knowledge checkQuestion 1 of 3

The most common cause of kitchen injuries is:

Wet floors, spilled oil, rushed service — slips and trips top the accident book in commercial kitchens.

A pan of oil catches fire. What should you NEVER do?

Water turns burning oil into an explosion of steam and flame. Starve it of oxygen — never, ever water.

A burn should be cooled under running water for:

Twenty minutes of cool running water — far longer than instinct says. Ice damages the tissue further.

0/3

That's a taste of it. The full course covers everything an inspector — or a bad day — can throw at you, and the certificate proves it.

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Who's behind it

Taught by someone who's done the job.

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Andrew Herbst
Food Safety Subject Matter Expert · Dublin

Andrew spent 28 years in hospitality — running kitchens and food operations across Australia and Ireland — before crossing to the training side in 2012 as a senior instructor and course developer. That matters: this course was written by someone who has stood on the pass during a Saturday service, not someone reading from a manual.

QQI L5 Food Safety & HACCPQQI L6 Train the TrainerNHPDip. Occupational Health & Safety
AK
Adam Kearns
Instructional Design & Fact-Checking · Managing Director

Adam designed the courses for how people actually learn online — short modules, knowledge checks and assessments built to fit around real shifts — and fact-checks every claim against the source guidance before it ships.

Dip. Instructional & Digital DesignIOSH Managing SafelyDip. Health & SafetyQQI L6 Manual Handling Instructor
Questions

Health & Safety in Kitchens questions, answered plainly.

Everyone working in or around a commercial kitchen — chefs, kitchen porters, waiting staff crossing the pass, and the managers responsible for all of them. It works well alongside HACCP training as part of induction.

Same legal foundations, completely different room. General courses spend their time on workstation posture and fire doors; this one spends it on fryers, wet tile, blades and the 7pm rush — the things that actually put kitchen staff in the accident book. If your team is desk-based, our Health & Safety at Work course is the better fit.

About 70 minutes, and you don't have to do it in one go. Your progress saves automatically, so you can stop and pick up where you left off on any device.

No — and that's deliberate. Lessons unlock in order, and each video has to be watched through before the next opens. It's still self-paced: stop, resume and rewatch whenever suits. But nobody can skip to the assessment, which is exactly why the certificate is worth accepting.

You retake it, free. There's no charge for additional attempts — we'd rather you knew the material than paid us twice.

The moment you pass. It's issued instantly in your name with a unique ID and QR code, ready to download, print or send on. It's valid for three years.

Then you get your money back. If your employer doesn't accept your certificate within 60 days of issue, we'll refund you in full on production of a letter confirming it. Terms and conditions apply.

Yes, and there's no minimum spend. Buy seats, add your team, and manage everyone's progress and certificates from your dashboard — from your very first seat. Seat pricing drops at 2, 5, 20 and 50 seats.

Related training

Courses that pair with this one.

Knife Safety Deeper on the sharpest risk in the room. €19View course → Manual Handling Lifting done right — graded by a QQI Level 6 Instructor. €60View course → Fire Safety Prevention, extinguishers and evacuation for the workplace. €39View course → All Access — Essentials This course plus the core staff set, one plan per person. €69View course →

Sources · Health and Safety Authority · Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 · HSA — Safety statement and risk assessment
Listed for reference. Your own procedures, and the officer inspecting your premises, are what govern your business.

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