Food safety for businesses and community organisations

Information on this page will help you produce and sell food safely in Tasmania.

Food safety guidelines, protocols and forms

Food business and provider guidelines and protocols

• Boil water alert precautions
• Child care - centre based day care and outside school hours care
• Child care - family day care
• Donating food
• Establishing a food business
• Mobile food businesses
• Recall Protocol for the food industry
• Risk Classification System for food businesses
• Notifiable food contaminants

Packaging and labelling

• Allergen management
• Labelling packaged food
• Providing information for foods without a label
• Reusable containers

Food and drink products

• Fermented Drinks
• Raw egg products

Food safety program templates

The Food Safety Program templates consist of the program template, records, and supplementary practices section.

View the Food Safety Program templates

Free Online Food Safety Training

Public Health Services has partnered with the Victorian Department of Health to enable greater access to the free online DoFoodSafely training program.

This program gives participants knowledge about how to safely handle food in a commercial setting.

DoFoodSafely is available for all and is accessed at DoFoodSafely

DoFoodSafely is in four languages (English, Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese) and future translations (Hindi, Punjabi, Korean and Nepali) should be available in 2021.

More than 2000 Tasmanian’s have accessed DoFoodSafely between January and October.

Please share this resource, especially to those from non-English speaking backgrounds.

Food allergies (allergen)

Industry organisation website links

• Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania
• Food Standards Australia New Zealand
• Local Government Association of Tasmania
• Tasmanian Dairy Industry Authority
• Shellfish Market Access Program

Where to get more information

Public Health Hotline – Tasmania

• Phone: 1800 671 738 (free call)
• Email: [email protected]