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Welcome to the Food Safety First Principles: for Food Handlers Course - ASTM E 2659 Accredited

Food Safety First Principles for Food Handlers Certificate Program provides food handlers with the knowledge they need to safely handle food for human consumption. Successful completion of the program assures food managers, regulators and trainers that the certificate holder has completed a basic course in food safety. The First Principles course is based on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Code and is recommended for people involved in the preparation, handling, serving and displaying of food. The training is required by law in some states and local jurisdictions and voluntary in others.

Food Handlers play a major role in keeping food safe. This training will help you understand food safety and how to apply this knowledge in the workplace.

Privacy Statement

Environmental Health Testing (EHT) will safeguard the privacy of individuals, where applicable, and will hold in confidence and in a secure manner the information obtained in the course of certificate program activities at all levels of the organization, including those of the Certificate Advisory Panel and subcontractors acting on its behalf. Except as required, information about a particular individual will not be disclosed to a third party by EHT personnel without the written consent of the individual. Where the law requires the information to be disclosed to a third party, the individual will be notified of the information provided.

Non–Discrimination and Special Accommodations

Non-Discrimination:
EHT endorses the principles of equal opportunity to take the course and complete the assessment including providing each student with an equal opportunity to take the course and complete the assessment by applying the general principles of fairness and equality on the basis of age, sex, race, religion, ethnic origin, disabilities or marital status.

Special Accommodations:
Reasonable accommodations for the course and assessment will be provided at no cost to the participants with disabilities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The candidate may request a form from their Approved Course Provider, download it from our Website or by clicking on the link below if a special accommodation is needed. An appropriate licensed professional must complete the form in order for their accommodations request to be processed.

Click here for the Accommodation Documentation Form.

Assessment Rules and Certificate Invalidation

The following are the rules enforced at all training and assessment sites:

• All candidates must have government issued photo ID to be admitted
• All candidates are admitted only to their assigned course and assessment
• Candidates arriving five minutes late for the training and assessment will not be admitted and will forfeit their fees
• No guests are permitted at the course or assessment
• No assisting or soliciting assistance from other students
• If student fails the assessment they must review the training materials and retake the assessment

Violating Rules:

• If a candidate is caught violating training and assessment rules, the candidate will be dismissed from the site and may be declared permanently ineligible for future courses and assessments.
• Approved Course Providers are authorized to take immediate, appropriate measures against candidates who are violating training and assessment rules.

Appeals:
An appeal is a formal request for reconsideration of an adverse decision made by Environmental Health Testing (EHT), the Certificate Advisory Panel or its representatives related to an individual’s achievement of a certificate or an educational institutions achievement of Approved Course Provider status. The appeal must be made in writing to EHT within 30 days of receiving the determination being appealed.

Complaints:
Individuals with concerns regarding the assessments, personnel, or other elements of the certificate program are encouraged to discuss these with the individuals involved to try to resolve the matter informally. If informal resolution is not possible, and an individual wishes to file a formal complaint, it should be submitted in writing to EHT within 90 days of the incident’s occurrence. In the case of complaints related to a course or assessment administration, those must be submitted in writing within two weeks after the course or assessment administration. Anonymous complaints will not be considered.

Candidate Information Sheet

Your Approved Course Provider is required to submit a candidate information sheet with your name, address, expiration of the certificate, email address, assessment score, that you were present for the entire course and assessment and any feedback on the course, assessment or Approved Course Provider.

If you are not comfortable with providing feedback to the approved course provider, please email feedback to Customer.Service@nrfsp.com.

Contact Information

Environmental Health Testing, 7680 Universal Blvd. Suite. 550, Orlando Florida 32819
Customer.Service@nrfsp.com
Phone: 407-352-3830
Fax: 407-352-3603