Food and Personal Hygiene, Food Handling and Storage Training

1 What it covers

Covers personal and food hygiene, safe food handling and storage.¹

Who needs it. Personnel preparing, handling or storing food aboard ship.¹

2 Validity and renewal

Document validity. The expiry date, if the issuing system sets one, is shown on the document itself. This reference does not calculate personal expiry dates.

Maintaining competence. There is no international renewal interval for this document.¹

3 Which positions

The need follows from the ship and the duties on board, not from the title of the position. In this reference the document appears in the requirements of these positions:

• AB-Cook
• AB-Steward
• Chief Cook
• Ship's Cook
• Second Cook
• Assistant Cook
• Baker
• Chief Steward

4 How it differs from similar types

Included in approved cook training: Ship’s Cook Qualification Document MLC 2006 A3.2.3–4²