The jobs every Irish food business has to do itself — registering, writing a HACCP plan, getting prerequisites in place, risk assessments and a safety statement, and the fire records that run every week. Worked through one step at a time, for nothing.
Read this before you start.
Food Safe Ireland is a private training company. We are not a food authority, we are not part of the State, and nothing you do in a guide is approved or certified by anyone.
The guides are guidance, not advice, and they are unsupported. We cannot review your documents, complete an application for you, or advise on your particular premises. Everything you need to do it yourself is in the steps — but the doing is yours.
If you want that kind of help it belongs in a paid service rather than a free guide. Email [email protected] and we will tell you what is available.
Each guide is six or seven steps. Each step ends with a tick-list of what you should actually be holding before you move on — and where the next move is outside the guide, it tells you and links you straight there.
Not “consider your hazards” — a list of what you should have written down, so you can tell whether you are actually finished or just feel finished.
Where the next thing is a State body or an official form, we say so and link it. You are ready, here is where to go — not a paraphrase of somebody else's page.
Tick the step off as you clear it. The guide remembers where you got to, so you can put it down for a fortnight and come back without losing your place.
Most new businesses start with registration, then prerequisites, then the HACCP plan. If you are already trading, start wherever the gap is.
Yes. No card, no trial, no upsell wall part-way through. You sign in so the site can remember which step you are on, and that is the whole transaction.
Because the people who work through one usually end up needing training or record sheets, and we would rather they came to us than to a template mill. The guides stand on their own either way — a free guide that reads as an advert is worth less than nothing on compliance content.
No. Food Safe Ireland is a private training company. We are not part of the State and we do not approve or certify anything you write in a guide. You register with, and are inspected by, the actual authorities — the guides tell you which ones and link you to them.
Not on the free guides — they are guidance only and unsupported, and that includes reviewing documents and completing applications. If you want hands-on help, email [email protected] and we will tell you what is available.
As long as you want. They are self-paced with no deadlines and nothing expires. Most people do a step, go and do the actual work, then come back.
No. A guide is not training and it is not assessed, so there is nothing to certify. Our courses do issue dated, verifiable certificates — that is a different thing, and it is a paid one.
Free · self-paced · nothing expires.
Guidance only, and unsupported — the doing is yours.