Courses
Training can be delivered at any suitable location including companies own premises. Many skills based courses are delivered in close co-operation with Billingsgate Seafood Training School. The School is located at Billingsgate Market and has facilities to accomodate 50 people for lectures and demonstration based courses. A skills room for fish preparation has 10 blocks for knife skills training.
Training Material available from Seafish, click the link below: http://www.seafish.org/land/training.asp
Currently our porfolio includes:
• New Events
Get into Fishmongering! Free Introductory Course (1 day)
City & Guilds Seafood Retail Certificate (2 days)
• Knife Skills (skinning, gutting, filleting etc), Instructor lead, half day at Billingsgate Seafood Training School, further information here.
• Quality Assessment of Fish and Shellfish for EHOs. Two days at Billingsgate specifically designed for Environmental Health Officers, further information here.
• Key Skills Training, In association with Newham College of Further Education the GTA is delighted to be able to offer London Seafood companies the opportunity to receive free workplace training. further information here.
• Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene: Open Learning Module This is a popular and cost effective method of achieving the CIEH Foundation certificate in Food Hygiene. At a cost of £45, students receive a comprehensive book broken down into easy to manage chapters which includes self assessment questions. Once this has been completed (should take 6 hours) students take a multiple choice test which on passing leads to the certificate. Included in the price is the book, telephone support and the cost of one examination and certificate.
Please contact us here to find out more and to order your copy.
Seafish recognises the need for different food hygiene training to suit the differing needs of our industry, which is why we have developed '3 Choices'. Click here for more information. Options include an introduction to Food Hygiene a one day Food Hygiene Certificate course and an Open Learning Module Cerificate route so you can learn at your own pace.
• Basic Health & Safety Certificate, Instructor lead *one day course at Billingsgate Market. Click here to see the Health & Safety Priorities within the UK Seafood Industry. Further information and other Health & Safety publications are available from the Health & Safety Executive here, http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/foodindx.htm.
• HACCP Workshop, Instructor lead *one day course at Billingsgate Market, further information, from the seafish website click here http://www.seafish.co.uk/qa/qa_hazard_analysis.htm
• Emergency First Aid (appt. person) Instructor lead *one day course at Billingsgate Market,
• Introduction to Fish and Fish Processing. Instructor lead *one day course at Billingsgate Market, further information here.
• Introduction to Fish Frying Instructor lead *one day course,
• Practical Fish Smoking and Curing Instructor lead *one day course.
For those interested in fish smoking have a look at this informative American site that gives lots of useful information about hot smoking: http://www.3men.com/threemen1.htm
*These courses can be arranged at companies own premises with sufficient numbers of participants, please contact us for further details.
