The purpose of this workshop is to enable candidates to work efficiently in an environment that requires special temperature control and storage, while ensuring freight/stock integrity. They will acquire knowledge that will assist in the implementation of correct hygiene and safety measures that need to be applied when working in a temperature-controlled environment.

Course outline

By the end of the course, learners can understand, explain and apply:

• conditions relating to storage in cold storage
• comprehend basic refrigeration principles
• different refrigeration systems
• appropriate cold store cooling loads
• troubleshooting for cold store temperature problems
• old store housekeeping
• appropriate product handling at the cold store
• correct hygiene and safety measures
• temperature monitoring with reference to freight integrity
• an ability to identify and rectify problems with maintaining the correct temperature in a competent manner.

The above programme can be customised to suit a specific organisation’s policies and procedures.