About this course

Learn how to extract and handle honey safely

Producing honey that is safe for people to eat requires the right equipment, hygiene practices and quality controls. This online course will help you understand how to extract, handle and store honey safely while following workplace quality assurance procedures and food safety requirements.

You’ll learn how to:

  • understand the key components of a quality assurance program
  • safely operate honey extraction equipment
  • extract, handle and store honey to minimise food safety risks
  • follow workplace quality assurance procedures
  • maintain accurate records to demonstrate safe food handling practices.

Whether you’re a hobby beekeeper or manage honey production as part of a business, this course will help you build your knowledge of safe honey extraction and quality assurance, supporting the production of honey that is fit for human consumption.

Is this course right for me?

Before registering, consider whether this course suits your beekeeping experience and goals. It’s designed for people who want to improve their knowledge of honey extraction, food safety and quality assurance practices. As the course is delivered online, you’ll need access to a computer or laptop and a reliable internet connection, along with the ability to complete online learning activities. If you want to strengthen your understanding of safe honey handling, extraction and quality assurance, click on the register now button.

At a glance:

Location: Online
Course duration: Self-paced
Start date: Enrol anytime online
Number of units: 2
Indicative fees: $715 GST-free
Accredited Course: Yes

Details

This online course teaches the skills and knowledge required to operate honey extraction equipment safely and to extract honey fit for human consumption.

Throughout the seven (7) modules in this course, you will learn about:

  • components of a quality assurance program
  • safe food handling regulations and practices
  • honey quality requirements
  • identification and reporting of food hazards in beekeeping operations
  • how to extract, handle and store honey using workplace quality assurance processes to minimise risks to food safety
  • measuring the moisture content of honey
  • creating quality records that demonstrate safe food handling practices.

$715 GST-free

Modules 1-6 contain tutorials for your viewing.

  • Module 1 – Quality Assurance Requirements
  • Module 2 – Honey Quality
  • Module 3 – Prepare to extract honey
  • Module 4 – Extract honey
  • Module 5 – Handle extracted honey
  • Module 6 – Honey comb and wax
  • Module 7 is your workplace project: You will need to collect evidence as you conduct an extraction through images  (photo or video) and the completion of various records. Each individual assessment task will detail the evidence you will need to collect and submit. There are nine (9) assessment tasks.

  • Participants receive access to the eBook Honey harvesting and Extracting.
  • This course is delivered online through our online learning platform Canvas.

Participants must:

  • Be actively keeping bees, operating or preparing to operate a honey extraction facility, or managing honey processing as part of a commercial or hobby apiary enterprise.
  • Have access to a computer or laptop with a reliable internet connection to access the online learning portal.
  • Be comfortable navigating online learning management systems, completing self-paced digital tasks, and reviewing food safety compliance documentation.

Language, Literacy, Numeracy, and Digital Capability Requirements

To complete this course successfully, participants will need:

  • Reading: Interpreting food safety standards (such as Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code), Quality Assurance (QA) program manuals, extraction equipment operating guides, and sanitation safety data sheets.
  • Writing: Completing food safety logs, honey extraction batch records, cleaning/sanitation checklists, traceability sheets, and equipment maintenance logs.
  • Numeracy: Measuring honey moisture percentages (using refractometers, ensuring levels remain below 18%), calculating heating/warming storage temperatures, tracking batch numbers, and recording processing yields.
  • Oral Communication & Hearing: Communicating food safety requirements effectively with farm staff, food inspectors, or retail customers (if applicable).
  • Digital Literacy: Navigating online learning management platforms, downloading QA templates, and uploading completed digital course activities.

This course has been mapped to the following national units of competency:

  • AHCBEK312 Extract honey
  • AHCWRK318 Comply with industry quality assurance requirements.


Additional Information

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