Sitxfsa002, Sitxinv002 - Written Assessment v2
Sitxfsa002, Sitxinv002 - Written Assessment v2
Sitxfsa002, Sitxinv002 - Written Assessment v2
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☒ Written Assessment
STUDENT DECLARATION
I acknowledge that I understand the requirements to complete the assessment tasks.
The assessment process including the provisions for re-submitting and academic appeals were explained to
me and I understand these processes.
I understand the consequences of plagiarism and confirm that this is my own work and I have acknowledged
or referenced all sources of information I have used for the purpose of this assessment.
ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES
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Qualification: SIT40516 Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery
SITXFSA002 Participate in safe food handling practices
Unit of Competency: SITXINV002 Maintain the quality of perishable items
Assessment 1 Written Assessment
Assessment 2 Practical Observation
Assessment 3
Assessments to be completed for this unit:
Your trainer/ assessor would have told you when the assessments will take place on the first day of
training delivery for this unit.
The written assessment (Assessment 1) will assess your knowledge and is one part of the
assessment tool for these two units of competency.
The practical assessment (Assessment 2) will assess your knowledge and practical skills through
practical observation/s. This will take place in the College’s commercial kitchen. Your assessor will
record behaviours they have observed to confirm competency against each Performance Criteria.
Reasonable Adjustment
No Skip question 2
2. Provide details for the requirements and provisions for adjustment of assessment:
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control, especially time and temperature controls used in the receiving, storing, preparing,
processing, displaying, serving, packaging, transporting and disposing of food
o main types of safety hazards and contamination
o conditions for development of microbiological contamination
o environmental conditions and, temperature controls, for storage
o temperature danger zone and the two-hour and four-hour rule
contents of organisational food safety program, especially procedures, associated requirements, and
monitoring documents
food safety monitoring techniques:
o bacterial swabs and counts
o checking and recording that food is stored in appropriate timeframes
o chemical tests
o monitoring and recording food temperatures using a temperature measuring device accurate to plus
or minus one degree Celsius
o monitoring and recording temperature of cold and hot storage equipment
o visually examining food for quality review
methods to ensure the safety of food served and sold to customers:
o packaging control:
using packaging materials suited to foods
monitoring of packaging damage
protective barriers
temperature control
supervision of food displays
utensil control
providing separate serving utensils for each dish
safe food handling practices for the following different food types:
o dairy
o dried goods
o eggs
o frozen goods
o fruit and vegetables
o meat and fish
equipment operating procedures, especially how to calibrate, use and clean a temperature probe and
how to identify faults
choice and application of cleaning, sanitising and pest control equipment and materials
cleaning, sanitising and maintenance requirements relevant to food preparation and storage:
o cleaning:
dirt
food waste
grease
pest waste removal
o sanitising:
eating and drinking utensils
food contact surfaces
o maintenance:
recalibrating measurement and temperature controls
minor faults
high risk customer groups:
o children or babies
o pregnant women
o aged persons
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o people with immune deficiencies or allergies
o unwell persons.
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chemicals
clothing
personal belongings
indicators of spoilage and contamination of perishable supplies:
o degradation of flavour, aroma, colour and texture
o enzymic browning
o drying and hardening
o crystalisation
o infestation of animal and pest waste
o mould
o exposed packaged food through damaged packaging
o odour
indicators of quality of perishable items:
o currency of best by or use by dates
o freshness
o size
o weight
correct and environmentally sound disposal methods for kitchen waste and hazardous substances.
Tasks instructions:
Your assessor will explain the assessment process and your rights if you are unhappy with the
outcome of your assessment.
Your trainer will also ask you if you have any special needs to complete the assessment.
You will have a chance to ask questions.
You must answer all questions correctly to be deemed Satisfactory for this assessment.
Make sure you complete the assessment cover sheet and sign the student declaration
This written assessment consists of 40 question items.
You have 180 minutes (3 hours) to complete this task.
Read the instructions for each question carefully.
You should write full sentences. For example, if you are asked to explain a word or topic, this
means that you must write down enough information to show your assessor that you have the
required knowledge.
You may use sources such as websites to complete your assessment. If you use information from
other sources, then you must reference the source.
DO NOT copy and paste responses from other sources. If you do so, it is plagiarism and your
trainer will mark you NYS.
Formatting requirements:
o Font: Arial with size of 11 or 12 for ease of reading
o Include a footer on each page with your name, unit code and date.
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Place/Location where assessment will occur, recording and reporting requirements
This written assessment will be completed under supervised conditions and in the presence of your
trainer/ assessor at the College premises on Level 2, 38 College Street, Darlinghurst 2010.
Your trainer/ assessor will have notified you of the date of the assessment date on the first day of
training delivery for these two units. Your trainer will also have told you that attendance on
assessment day is compulsory.
Assessments are completed on the College’s Moodle platform.
Your trainer/ assessor will open up the assessment for you at the start of the assessment session.
Your trainer/ assessor is available to assist you if you have any questions while completing this
assessment.
When you have completed your assessment, you must save and convert the document to a PDF
file.
Upload your PDF file to your Moodle account.
You must digitally record your signature and the date on the assessment cover sheet.
Your assessor will mark the assessment within 7 working days from the date that you submitted
your assessment.
Both you and your assessor must complete the Assessment Outcome Record at the end of this
assessment booklet.
Resource Requirements
The primary resource you require to complete this assessment is access to your Moodle account.
Laptops are available for all students completing the assessment at the College Street campus.
You must complete your assessment in MS Word document format.
Written questions may ask you to view a website. Laptops will provide you access to the Internet so
that you can view such websites.
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Assessment 1 – Written Assessment
Answer- The food safety standards aim to lower the incidence of foodborne illness
- A food safety program identifies the food safety hazards associated with a business’s food
handling activities and indicates how the business will monitor and control these hazards.
b) Look at Section 5 of the document. In your own words, write down the 6 parts that must be included in a
Food Safety Program.
Hazard Identification
Hazard control
Monitoring
Corrective action
Review
Record keeping.
c) In your own words, give 2 reasons why a food business should have a food safety program.
Keep customers safe.
Protect business.
3. The State of NSW has its own Food Safety regulations. Go to https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/
Go to the ‘About us’ tab.
What are the three main pieces of legislation (laws) used by the NSW Food Authority?
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4. You have a restaurant in Sydney. You receive a letter to say that someone will come next week to do
an inspection on your restaurant.
a) What government authority will this person come from if your business is in Sydney?
b) What is the title of the person who will come to inspect your restaurant (Hint: 3 words)?
c) Give two things this person can do when visiting your restaurant.
Ensure correct storage, shipping, packing and distribution of food ingredients and products
d) The person finds evidence that there are mice in your restaurant! Write down 3 things that he/ she can
do because you did not follow food safety regulations.
c) Find the definition of a ‘hazard’. Now write it in your own words what a hazard means with food.
- A food ‘’hazard’’ refers to any agent with the potential to cause adverse health consequences for
consumers. Food hazards may be biological, chemical, physical, allergenic, nutritional and/or
biotechnology-related.
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6. In the table below, there are 6 examples of contamination in the left column. In the right column, write if
these are examples of microbiological/ biological, chemical or physical contamination.
7. Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) is a system that is used to keep food safe at every
stage of food production.
Answer the following questions about HACCP.
b) Now think about the second principle of HACCP. Explain it in your own words.
-At any point where hazard can be avoided, reduced, or lowered to acceptable levels, critical control points
can be determined.
8. Your ae a restaurant manager. You have been hired to provide food for a function. One of the food
items is to provide 60 portions of fried chicken thighs for the function.
Look at the HACCP template below. You need to complete the HACCP template below for receipt of
the raw meat at your restaurant to the transport of the food to the venue.
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9. In Question 2, you wrote down the 6 parts that must be included in a Food Safety Program. Look at the
list below. Tick other parts that should be in a Food Safety Program
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Work instructions or procedures
A process flowchart
10. Write down three different worksheets or checklists that you might use to monitor and record critical
controls as part of a Food Safety Program.
1.fridge temperature
2. cleaning schedule
3.
11. There are many techniques (ways) to monitor food safety in a commercial kitchen.
Look at the table below. In the left column, there is a list of different food safety monitoring techniques.
In the right column, give one example of when you would use each technique.
b) Chemical test
c) Bacterial swabs
e) Smell test
f) Visual inspection
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12. You are preparing food at a takeaway venue. In the table below, there are different kinds of food that
customers can buy. In the right column write the correct packaging materials to make sure the food sold
to customers stays safe.
Food type Packaging material
a) 2 servings of Pad Thai Aluminium takeaway box
b) 1 serving of Caesar salad Plastic container takeaway box, cling wrap
c) 1 serving of vegetable soup Aluminium soup takeaway box
d) 2 servings of chocolate chip ice-cream Ice-cream takeaway, paper bag
e) 2 x servings of prawn crackers Aluminium box
f) 1 x 2 litre bottle of Coca Cola White Plastic bag
13. For each of the items in the food order, what serving utensils (spoon, forks, etc.) would you use for each
item?
14. You would like to cut down on your costs. One of your employees suggests that you should only give
one fork and spoon with each food order.
Answer the following questions:
Reason 2: yes, it will help to reduce the cost but it may impact the business.
15. Think of the example in question 12. There are hot and cold food types.
How would you pack 6 items?
List some protective barrier materials that you could use to ensure the food stays safe for eating.
Packing method:
I will like
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16. Think of the example in Question 12 again. You have the order ready to be picked up.
The customer calls you to say that she cannot arrive for 30 minutes because there is heavy traffic on
her route.
Write down how you would monitor the temperature of the food order you have prepared.
Put the hot item inside the hot bag in a hot display, if there is ice cream put inside the freezer. If salad put
inside the fridge.
17. In your take-away, you also have food display area that has a range of hot foods that drop-in customers
can purchase.
Describe four ways that you and/ or your employees would use to ensure the display area stays a safe
area for food.
4. only cooked food are supposed to be store in a hot display. Not a raw food
18. There are different safe food handling practices you need to think about for different food types.
In the table below, there are 8 food types (a to f) in the left column.
In the right column, write down one example of a safe food handling method you would use with this
food.
Food type Example of safe food handling method for this food
a) Dairy products Don’t allow dairy products, including raw eggs, to remain at room
temperature for longer than necessary – never more than 2 hours.
b) Dry good, e.g. rice or pasta Net to be stored in the dry storage
c) eggs Net to be stored a cool room at 1to below 4ºC
d) Frozen foods Frozen food needs to be stored in a freezer above -18 to -24’ C
e) Fruit The best temperature for fruit storage is between 6ºC and 8ºC. Lower
temperatures than this can lead to freezing, which destroys the structure
of the item
f) Vegetables The best temperature for vegetable storage is between 6ºC and 8ºC.
Lower temperatures than this can lead to freezing, which destroys the
structure of the item
g) chicken Chicken Need to be stored in a raw meat section with proper
covered
h) fish in a bed of crushed ice between 0ºC and 2ºC, on a drip tray and covered
in plastics
19. Equipment to measure temperature is important for food safety. In the box below, write about a
temperature probe.
Temperature probe
a) Explain how to calibrate it
- Fill a cup with crushed ice and add just enough water to barely float the ice. The temperature of
the ice water will always be 0 degree Celsius (32’F). this is the temperature that you use as a
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guide to calibrate your probe thermometer
21. Think about the cleaning (and sanitising) equipment and products you would use in a commercial
kitchen. Now complete the table below.
(Cleaning products mean chemical products)
Cleaning problem What equipment would you use? What products would you use?
a) Cooking oil spill on
kitchen floor
b) Blockage in kitchen
sink
c) Mouse droppings under
kitchen cabinets
d) Milk spill inside a fridge
e) Baked on grease in an
oven
f) A sick worker has
sneezed on a worktop
g) Dirty glassware and
plates
Name of equipment How often should it be checked? How would you check it?
a) Toaster Every time before use Wire cord no identify faulty
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b) Blender Every time before use Attach part correctly
c)
d)
23. Some kitchen equipment has temperature controls. This equipment needs to be recalibrated now and
then. Think of 2 examples and complete the table below.
b) Freezer, fridge
24. Think about minor faults (problems) that can happened with kitchen equipment. Complete the table
below for 3 examples.
Equipment name Describe the minor fault Describe how you can fix the fault
a) oven Faulty temperature Read manual or call technician
b)
c)
25. When we think about safe food, some groups of customers can be high-risk of getting sick.
Write down 4 high-risk groups.
1.
2.
3.
4.
26. Most food stocks that we store in a commercial kitchen will have date codes.
There are two main kinds of dates codes.
Give the common names of the two date codes.
Write down what information each date code contains.
Date code 1:
Information:
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Date code 2:
Information:
27. Food rotation labels are used to label and date food products for food preparation and storage. Look at
the label below and answer the questions.
b) Who is MSR?
28. Food waste is a part of every commercial kitchen. Give 2 reasons why we show avoid food waste.
a)
b)
c)
29. You are on the early shift at a commercial kitchen and part of your job is to be there for a food delivery.
You see the packaging on frozen chicken is broken and water is leaking from the package. You do not
want to accept the order.
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30. You are accepting a food delivery at a commercial kitchen.
The table below how a list of items in the food order in the left column.
In the right column, write down what signs you would look for that would show there are problems with
the food.
Dairy products
Dry goods
Frozen goods
Fruit
Fresh Meat
Fresh Poultry
Fresh Seafood
32. Now for the same food types, write down how each can be protected from:
heat
light
air conditioning
people traffic
Dairy products Away from heat Away from Away from direct In shelf cool room
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sunlight aircon away from walk way
Dry goods Away from heat Away from Away from direct In shelf dry store
sunlight aircon
Frozen goods Away from heat Away from Away from direct In freezer shelf
sunlight aircon
Freezer
temperature
below – 18
Fruit Away from heat Away from Away from direct In shelf cool room
sunlight aircon away from walk way
Fresh Meat Away from heat Away from Away from direct In shelf cool room
sunlight aircon away from walk way
Fridge
temperature
under 5
Fresh Poultry Away from heat Away from Away from direct In shelf cool room
sunlight aircon away from walk way
Fridge
temperature
under 5
Fresh Seafood Away from heat Away from Away from direct In fridge shelf
sunlight aircon
Fridge
temperature 0-2
33. The table below has a list of places where perishable items can be stored. The table also has a list of
food types. Tick the best storage place (one example is done for you).
Dairy products
Past/ rice
Frozen goods
Fruit
Fresh Meat
Fresh Poultry
Fresh Seafood
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34. Storage areas must be kept sanitised and hygienic. Think about a cool room.
Write down 3 ways that you would use to:
saniitise the cool room
keep hygienic conditions in the cool room day by day
How to sanitise:
35. This question will test your knowledge of food safety procedures.
You have taken delivery of 10 Kg of fresh chicken breast fillets. Chef has asked you to leave 4kg for
immediate use. Chef tells you to store the other 6Kg in two batches of 3kg.
b) Complete the rotation label below – you completed this job this morning.
ITEM:
EMP:
DATE:
USE BY:
d) In the storage area, you see a 2kg portion of chicken with the ‘Use by’ date of 9.00pm tomorrow.
Explain how the ‘first in-first out’ rule helps you to decide which chicken should be used first.
36. Think of the items that can cause contamination of food. In the table below, describe ways that the
items can be properly stored so that they do not contaminate food.
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e.g. jewellery, mobile, etc.
37. You need to look for signs of spoilage in perishable food. In the table below. There are examples of
food and indicators (signs) that the food is contaminated or going off.
Complete the blanks in the table with:
examples of food that show the signs of spoilage
signs of spoilage for the food type
38. Sometimes perishable foods can still be used; however, their quality is not as good as it should be.
Think about ways that you can check the quality of food items by their appearance (for example, the
way they look or feel)
Now complete the table below.
Quality sign What this can tell you about food quality
‘Best before’ or ‘Use by’ labels
Weight
39. There will always be waste food products in a commercial kitchen. Waste should always be disposed of
in an environmentally friendly way. This does not mean that we must throw them away.
Look at the table below. Write down a suitable disposal method for each item.
40. Many hazardous substances used in a commercial kitchen and should be disposed of safely.
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Give suitable ways to dispose of the in the list below.
Item Suitable disposal method
Oven cleaner
Chemical cleaners
Pest control chemicals
Contaminated or spoiled food
Assessor to complete
Feedback to student
REASONABLE ADJUSTMENT
Has reasonable
adjustment been applied Yes No
to this assessment?
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Assessor signature: Date:
Student to complete
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