Highfield Qualifications — Food Safety, Licensing, Care and Workplace Compliance E-learning
Highfield is one of the largest awarding organisations in the UK, and the range here runs to sixty e-learning courses — considerably broader than the food and health and safety qualifications the name is best known for. Alongside those sit personal licence qualifications for England, Wales and Scotland, the Care Certificate, spectator safety and stewarding, and a full workplace compliance set covering everything from the Bribery Act to sexual harassment duties and generative AI at work. Everything is delivered as e-learning, which suits organisations rolling mandatory training out across a whole workforce.
Food safety and HACCP
Food Safety at Levels 1, 2 and 3 — entry level, the standard for anyone handling open food, and the supervisor and manager level — plus Food Safety in Manufacturing Level 2 for production environments.
HACCP Level 3 comes in separate catering and manufacturing versions. Introduction to Allergens and Anaphylaxis and Autoinjectors cover the allergen duties that Natasha’s Law turned from good practice into a practical necessity.
Health and safety by level and sector
Health and Safety at Levels 1, 2 and 3 gives a clean progression from induction awareness through the working standard to supervisory level. Two sector versions sit alongside: Health and Safety Management in Health Care Level 3, and Health and Safety within a Construction Environment. Beyond Level 3, IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH is the step up rather than a further Highfield level.
Workplace hazards
Individual modules covering
manual handling,
display screen equipment,
working at height,
confined spaces awareness,
asbestos awareness, warehousing and storage,
fire safety in the workplace and the Fire Marshal Level 2 role. Lone working and home working cover the situations where nobody is watching. These are awareness-level throughout — appropriate for general staff, but not a substitute for the practical or licensed training some of these subjects require of the people doing the work.
First aid
Emergency First Aid at Work, First Aid at Work, and Paediatric First Aid, plus COVID-19 infection prevention and a Regulated First-Aid Qualifications Assessor and IQA course for people moving into assessment and quality assurance roles. Worth being clear on format: a workplace first aid certificate normally requires practical assessment, so check what the e-learning route includes before assuming it satisfies your first aid needs assessment. Browse all
first aid courses.
Licensing and alcohol retail
The Award for Personal Licence Holders (APLH) is the qualification required to apply for a personal licence in England and Wales, with the Scottish Certificate (SCPLH) covering the separate Scottish regime and STARS covering training for alcohol retailers and servers north of the border. Highfield Challenge addresses responsible sales in hospitality and retail. If you operate on both sides of the border, note that the English and Scottish licensing systems are genuinely different qualifications rather than variants of one.
Spectator safety, stewarding and night-time economy
Spectator Safety and Understanding Stewarding at Spectator Events cover crowd management, entry control and emergency procedures at stadiums, arenas and festivals — safety certificates for sports grounds set expectations around trained stewarding, and these are uncommon in most catalogues. Alongside them sit Welfare and Vulnerability Engagement (WAVE) in both general and retail versions, and Security Industry: Spiking Awareness, which reflects how sharply that issue has risen up the licensing agenda.
Care, safeguarding and equality
The
Care Certificate covers the induction standards expected of new health and social care staff, with
Safeguarding Children and Equality and Diversity alongside. The Care Certificate is a set of standards rather than a qualification in the usual sense — employers are expected to assess competence in the workplace, so e-learning covers the knowledge component rather than the whole thing.
Compliance, ethics and data
GDPR and information and data security, the Bribery Act 2010, prevention of money laundering, fraud and fraud prevention, and modern slavery. Two versions of sexual harassment awareness — one for employees, one for managers — which reflects the preventative duty employers now carry rather than a purely reactive one. Introduction to Environmental Awareness and Awareness of Generative AI at Work round out the set; the AI course is a genuinely current addition that most catalogues do not yet carry.
Wellbeing and personal effectiveness
Mental health and wellbeing awareness with a separate manager version, plus stress management and menopause in the workplace. On the skills side: communication, effective writing, team working, managing conflict, self-awareness and personal development, and Customer Service Level 2. These are the modules organisations typically bundle into an induction or an annual refresher cycle.
Which level do you need?
Highfield qualifications carry a level number that means something specific. Level 1 is basic awareness, suitable for induction. Level 2 is the working standard most employers roll out across a workforce — and for food handlers, the level environmental health officers expect to see. Level 3 is supervisory, for people responsible for others. Buying Level 1 where Level 2 is expected is the common and easily avoided mistake, particularly in food businesses where an inspection will ask.
