Food & drink sector

Health & safety training for food & drink manufacturing

Site-access passports for contractors, competent line managers and core safety training for a high-throughput production site, delivered in-company around your shifts and cleaning windows.

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Why KeyOstas for Food & Drink
SPA
Food & Drink Passportthe sector site-access standard
IOSH
Managing Safelyline-manager competence across shifts
Wellbeing
MHFA and awarenessfor a high-pressure shift workforce
Around production
In-company deliveryscheduled around shifts and cleaning
Accredited & approved by
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The safety challenge

The safety challenge in food & drink

A food and drink HSE manager runs a high-throughput site with contractors constantly on it and customer audits scrutinising both food and occupational safety. These are the pressures the page below is built around.

Contractor site access

The SPA Food and Drink passport is the sector recognised standard for anyone working on a food or drink production site, including contractors.SPA Food & Drink scheme

Machinery, handling and slips

High-speed lines, repetitive manual handling and wet floors are the everyday injury risks on a food and drink site.PUWER and Manual Handling Operations Regulations

Hazardous substances

Cleaning chemicals, CIP systems and refrigerants demand COSHH assessment and competent control.Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

Workforce wellbeing

Shift work and high-pressure production make mental-health awareness a growing priority for the sector.Workforce wellbeing and HSE stress guidance

Courses for this sector

Food & drink safety courses we run

The courses a food and drink HSE manager books most often, from SPA site-access passports to line-manager competence and workforce wellbeing. Each one runs in-company around production.

Why employers choose KeyOstas

A specialist safety-training provider, not a generalist

We understand a food and drink production environment, with its hygiene zones, allergen discipline and constant contractor presence. Courses are tailored to your site and scheduled around production and cleaning windows.

Since 1984
Over 40 years training UK workforces in health and safety
3,500+
Courses delivered every year
Employed trainers
Never subcontracted: specialists who know the work
85%+
First-time pass rate on NEBOSH courses
Case study

A multi-year training partnership with a major brewer

Problem
A major brewer needed a broad, recurring training programme covering risk assessment, working at height, NEBOSH and environmental training across three production sites.
Solution
KeyOstas built a multi-year in-company partnership, proposing dates within 24 hours of each new request and tailoring course content to the brewer’s operations.
Outcome
A partnership now in its sixth year, more than 400 staff trained, and a consistent training standard held across all three sites.

What we value is the personal touch and the way courses are tailored to our site, not delivered off a shelf. When we need something, dates come back within a day.

Technical manager, major brewer
Why KeyOstas

Why food and drink manufacturers train with KeyOstas

01

Trainers who know a production environment

Hygiene zones, allergen discipline and contractor control understood, not learned on the job at your expense.

02

SPA passports plus the full safety stack

SPA Food and Drink passports and the whole safety-training stack from one provider with one point of contact.

03

Scheduled around production

In-company delivery planned around production shifts and cleaning windows.

04

Courses tailored to your site

Content tailored to your specific site and processes, as our long-standing food and drink clients will attest.

What clients say
Tailored to our site, scheduled around production and cleaning windows, and a fast response whenever we need something new on the plan.
Site health & safety manager, food manufacturer
Frequently asked

Food & Drink training questions

What is the SPA Food & Drink passport, and which of our people need it?

The SPA Food and Drink passport gives a worker a recognised baseline of health, safety and environmental awareness for a food or drink production site. Most sites ask for it from anyone working on site, including their own staff and contractors.

Can contractors working on our site get an SPA Food & Drink passport through you?

Yes. We deliver the SPA Food and Drink passport and its renewal for your own staff and for contractors, in-company at your site or on public dates.

Can you deliver training in-company, around our production shifts?

Yes. In-company delivery is scheduled around your production shifts and cleaning windows, so training does not interrupt the line or compromise hygiene zones.

Do you offer mental-health and wellbeing training for our workforce?

Yes. We deliver Mental Health First Aid, accredited by MHFA England, and shorter Mental Health and Wellbeing Awareness training for a shift workforce.

Can courses be tailored to our specific site and processes?

Yes. In-company courses can be tailored to your site, your equipment and your real tasks, which is what our long-standing food and drink clients value most.

How quickly can you turn around a quote and confirm dates?

We send a quote within one working day, Monday to Friday, and then confirm dates that fit around your production schedule.

Ready when you are

Train your food and drink team

Tell us the courses and the number of people, and we will send a quote within one working day. In-company UK-wide, or book onto a public course.

What you get
A quote within one working day, Mon-Fri
In-company delivery anywhere in mainland UK
Employed trainers, never subcontracted
Every accreditation your sector needs, one provider
A specialist provider since 1984
Food & Drink training, delivered in-company. Quote within one working day