HPCSA Accredited Food Safety Training for Spaza Shops, Vendors and Informal Traders (FS28)
This Food Safety training for Spaza shops, vendors and informal traders introduces the practical basics of food hygiene, food safety, GMP, safe handling, cleaning, personal hygiene and South African legal awareness for small food businesses, informal food traders and entry-level food handlers.
Choose the training format that works for your learners, budget and schedule
This FS28 training page supports online self-paced learning, virtual instructor-led classroom training and physical classroom or onsite company delivery.
Online Self-paced Training
A flexible and budget-friendly option for learners who want to start immediately and finish at their own pace.
- ✓HPCSA Accredited
- ✓Approximate duration: 8 hours
- ✓Start any time
- ✓Certificate available after successful completion
Virtual Classroom Training
Instructor-led virtual training delivered online for learners, organisations and groups that prefer a guided class environment.
- ✓HPCSA Accredited
- ✓Duration: 1 day
- ✓Presented via Zoom
- ✓Suitable for structured participation
Physical Classroom Training
Best suited to companies, municipalities, projects and groups needing onsite, in-house or demand-based classroom delivery.
- ✓HPCSA Accredited
- ✓Duration: 1 day
- ✓Ideal for onsite or in-house training
- ✓Minimum classroom size may apply
Designed for practical food handling, hygiene awareness and accessible legal relevance
This course gives informal traders, spaza shops and food vendors a practical entry point into basic food safety, hygiene controls and responsible food handling.
Practical food safety basics
Learners are introduced to core food safety hazards, contamination prevention, temperature control, cleaning, sanitising and safe food handling practices relevant to daily operations.
Legal awareness
The training supports awareness of South African food hygiene expectations and introduces food safety responsibilities linked to Regulations R638.
Recognised training support
The programme is HPCSA accredited and can support individuals and organisations needing basic recognised food safety training for food handlers, vendors and small food trading environments.
Course Introduction
This Food Safety training course for spaza shops, vendors and informal traders introduces the fundamentals of food safety practices and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). It is especially useful for learners who are new to food handling, food trading, food preparation or food hygiene requirements in South Africa.
- ✓Good entry-level training for informal food trading environments
- ✓Supports safer food handling and hygiene awareness
- ✓Useful where practical food safety training evidence is needed
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for people involved in small-scale food handling, informal food sales, basic food preparation and food hygiene activities.
- ✓Spaza shop owners
- ✓Street food vendors
- ✓Informal traders
- ✓Food handlers
- ✓Entry-level food business workers
Minimum prerequisite: None
Key topics covered in the FS28 food safety training programme
The course outline below reflects the main practical themes covered during training for spaza shops, vendors and informal traders.
Core learning topics
- ✓Introduction to food safety, food quality and food safety hazards
- ✓Temperature control and management
- ✓Introduction to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- ✓Basic steps to prevent cross-contamination
- ✓Maintenance of equipment
- ✓Pest control basics
- ✓Waste control basics
- ✓Personal hygiene, grooming, health, behaviour and clothing requirements
Additional practical coverage
- ✓Cleaning and sanitising fundamentals
- ✓Requirements for food storage containers and packaging materials
- ✓South African legislation awareness
- ✓Conforming and non-conforming status indicators on products
- ✓Brief overview of HACCP
- ✓Brief overview of food defence
- ✓Brief overview of food fraud, traceability and recall
- ✓Regular assessments to support competency
What learners and small food businesses gain from this course
The aim is practical improvement in food handling awareness, hygiene behaviour and day-to-day food safety understanding.
Better food handling awareness
Learners should leave with a clearer understanding of basic food safety requirements for handling, preparing and selling food.
Certificate of achievement
A certificate of achievement is issued after successful completion, subject to the required pass mark of 70%.
Useful evidence of training
The course certificate may be used as supporting evidence of food safety training for food handlers and related small food business environments where relevant.
Upcoming virtual classroom training events
Bookings two weeks in advance are recommended. These dates relate to virtual instructor-led sessions. On-demand virtual or physical classroom training can also be discussed for teams and projects.
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