Kitchen Assistant Skills and Competency framework

7 January 2022

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Commercial kitchen with clean stainless steel surfaces and equipment. Cleaning forms one of the 4Cs of food safety

Are you using your food operation to provide new skills and experience to members of your community? The Safer Food Group has created a Skills and Competency framework for kitchen assistants; this framework suggests a list of useful food preparation skills to be covered, and once completed forms a record of evidence for the trainee to take away.

Kitchen Assistant Skills and Competency framework

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