Washington Food Handler Training

The state of Washington operates their own food worker program.

Washington State requires that all food workers have food safety training before handling food served to the public. Food workers who take a food safety training class and pass the State of Washington exam on food safety basics are issued a Food Worker Card (also called a Food Handler Permit).

Am I a food worker? You are a food worker if you work with unpackaged food, food equipment or utensils, or with any surface where people put unwrapped food.

TAP Series provides online food handler training. This training is a general food handler course.

This course takes approximately one hour to complete and, upon successful completion, provides a printable food handler certificate. This certificate is good for up to three years.

This course is not to prepare workers to take a certification exam. The course to study for the certification exam is Food Safety Manager Certification Training.