About Us

Established in 1998, long before current food safety requirements were introduced, Prime Skills has become the ONLY Registered Training Organisation (RTO) combining award winning cooking experience with FREE patented online learning for food services businesses to improve their customer experience, lower costs and reduce reputational risk via better staff training that is engaging and fun.

Prime Skills and has been providing quality services and training to clients across Australia since 1998.

Prime Skills Pty Ltd is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) (provider number 21317) under the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority and delivers training that is recognised within the Australian Qualifications Framework.

We have been very lucky to be able to work with some of the country's leading companies, providing them with ongoing training and consultancy services. But don't take our word for it – our clients are our best advertising!

We work closely with our clients to form an understanding of their business and provide them the training that meets their needs and their budgets.

As well as providing duty of care training for a wide variety of clients such as university student unions, restaurants, caterers, cafes, charity organisations, public and private hospitals, nursing homes, and childcare centers we also proud to have ongoing national and international events such as the Australian Open Tennis, Formula One Grand Prix, Royal Melbourne Show, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup Carnival and Flemington Racecourse, Telstra Dome, and the Melbourne Cricket Ground to name just a few.

Prime Skills works closely with Service Skills Victoria to develop and present the professional development program for secondary VET teachers in Hospitality so as to ensure that their industry skills and knowledge are as up to date as possible.

We have also been fortunate to work with many different companies to present ongoing training and development services that have been customised to their needs in areas such as Customer Service, Supervisory skills, leadership skills, conflict resolution, time management and delegation, managing staff. Our list of ongoing clients includes Melbourne Aquarium, AIMS security services, Red Scooter, Michael O'Brien Catering, Alliance and Compass Australia.

Prime Skills has established itself as a real alternative for companies who want to run nationally recognised and client specific programs in their workplace at their own pace, at the right price.

We are constantly audited to ensure that we are compliant to the VRQA requirements. These registrations are recognised throughout Australia and allow us to train throughout Australia.

Prime Skills also has the following approvals:

  • Liquor Licensing Victoria  (LLV) – to deliver Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) in Victoria
  • NSW Food Authority, to deliver their recently introduced Food Safety Supervisor training
  • The Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing (OLGR) – to deliver Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) in New South Wales.

What does Prime Skills do?

Prime Skills specialises in preventative training solutions to the food industry. We only deliver the following courses:

  • Food Hygiene
  • Food Safety Supervisor
  • Responsible Service of Alcohol
  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Bar Program (a 2 day introductory course in a licensed premises that teaches the basics of working in a bar)

Methods of delivery

Prime Skills offers:

  • Workplace training (onsite at the clients facility)
  • Classroom (a dedicated training room that we arrange – we currently hire a room in Glen Iris for this purpose)
  • Online

At present we only offer the Food Hygiene course and Food Safety Supervisor course online.

Food Safety Units of Competency

Prime Skills ONLY delivers two food safety courses. We call these courses:

  • Level 1: Food Hygiene Course
  • Level 2: Food Safety Supervisor Course

The Health sector covers Hospitals, Aged Care, Community Organisations and Child Care and Hospitality covers café's, restaurants, takeaways, hotels, catering companies etc.

The Level 1: Food Handling Course units of competency to be delivered and assessed are:

Hospitality: SITXOHS002A – Follow Workplace Hygiene Procedures

Health: HLTFS207B – Follow Basic Food Safety Practices

Retail: SIRRFSA001A – Apply Retail Food Safety Practices

Food processing: FDFCORFSY1A – Follow Work Procedures to Maintain Food Safety

The Level 2: Food Safety Supervisor Course units of competency to be delivered and assessed are:

Hospitality: SITXFSA001A – Implement Food Safety Procedures

Health: HLTFS309B – Oversee the day-to-day Implementation of Food Safety in the Workplace, and

HLTFS310B – Apply and Monitor Food Safety Requirements

Food Processing: FDFCORFSY2A – Implement the Food Safety Program and Procedures

Prerequisites:

In ALL cases, the trainee, if doing the Level 2: Food Safety Supervisor course must do with us/ or have done previously the Level 1: Food Hygiene Course unit of competency. If they haven't done with us, they must provide a copy of their Level 1 statement of attainment.

To facility this, we do offer a Level 1 and Level 2 combined course, that covers both levels in ONE assessment. The course materials are still the same, however to assist with time handling we have combined the assessment requirements into ONE assessment. We offer this as a discount on the website IF they complete the assessment and submit at the same time.

If the trainee submits two assessments (i.e. a Level 1 and a Level 2) they do not get the bundled price. They must complete the combined assessment to receive the discount.