The Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit offers food handler certification courses and exams in Haldimand and Norfolk counties to help promote safe food handling within the food service industry. Food poisoning can seriously damage the reputation of your establishment and directly affect your business. Learning and adapting the skills taught in this course will help protect your business and the health of your customers.

Schedule

Course Description

This full-day course is designed to help familiarize staff with safe food handling practices and skills that ensure food is stored, prepared, and served in a manner that complies with the Food Premises Regulation under the Health Protection and Promotion Act.

At the end of the course, participants will write a food safety certification exam. Those individuals who successfully pass the exam will receive a Food Handler Certificate from the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit that is valid for five years. This certificate is recognized by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and other Health Units in Ontario. Those who wish to study on their own time may challenge the Health Unit food safety certification exam without taking the full-day course. See below for a list of ‘exam only’ dates and locations.

Two online food handler courses are also available at www.ingoodhands.ca or www.foodsafetytraining.ca. When completing either course you will complete the exam online using a webcam.

Click here to view a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) list of food handler training programs deemed to be equivalent to the training and certification offered by local public health units as an alternative option.

 

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Registration and Payment

Submission of the completed form and payment made in person will reserve your spot in the chosen course/exam. Please do not mail or email registration forms and/or payment due to the limited spots available. Registration fees are non-refundable one week before the course/exam. Please make cheques payable to “Norfolk County”. We accept cash, credit and debit payments in the office.

The Food Handler Certification Program is taught in English only. Upon request, exams can be provided in French, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Punjabi, Spanish and Greek. Please indicate your language choice in the form below. Upon completing the exam, each participant will receive a Ministry of Health and Long Term Care approved certificate which is valid for five (5) years. The passing mark is 70%. If unsuccessful in achieving the minimum mark of 70%, the participant will be allowed one re-write free of charge. Please bring a piece of Government issued ID to the course/exam.

For further assistance, please contact the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit at 519-426-6170 ext. 3477 or [email protected].

Please download, fill out and submit in person when payment is made

2023 Food Handler Certification Program Registration Form-

 

Schedule

 

FULL COURSE 1-day course— 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Offered in Dunnville and Simcoe. $60	EXAM ONLY Exam Only – 9:30 am to 10:30 am Offered in Dunnville and Simcoe $15
UPCOMING FULL COURSES Simcoe —  12 Gilbertson Dr. Simcoe, ON October 26, 2023 December 13, 2023 Dunnville – Grandview Lodge Auditorium 657 Lock St. West. Dunnville, ON September 22, 2023 November 22, 2023	UPCOMING EXAMS Simcoe – 12 Gilbertson Dr. Simcoe, ON October 16, 2023 December 4, 2023     Dunnville – 117 Forest St. E, Dunnville, ON November 17, 2023