Catering standards impact you both financially and legally.

Your duty of care means YOU are liable.

How do you control your catering costs and conditions?

Are you aware of your liabilities towards your employee's welfare?

As experts we audit and benchmark standards.

Our bespoke independent report ensures control, reducing catering subsidy and

operational risk while helping you meet legislation.

Remember: You have a legal duty of care for catering standards whether contracted or in-house!

How we help UK businesses:

With over 28 years experience we benchmark all standards which includes your in-house

or contract caterer. Numerous UK businesses control both catering costs and employee

standards with our help.

We can help you too...

As an employer you need control For effective control you need unbiased data!

Data ensures you manage catering costs and your duty of care. You are at risk if reliant on catering consultants

or vending suppliers chosen by your caterers. Why? They have a clear bias; withholding any detail that

jeopardises the catering contract. Fact: Their vested interest makes you vulnerable.

Common law duties It is vital you independently check all catering standards because your duty for

employee welfare is personal and non-delegable. Regulating your caterer catering standards safeguards you!

Operational risk Benchmarking proves due diligence; unbiased data returns added value.

Being able to prove due diligence impacts employer liability your catering subsidy and vending costs!

Whatever the economic conditions it's crucial all areas return REAL ADDED VALUE!

Food hygiene standards directly impact YOUR employee welfare standards.

Are your food standards good and if so compared to what? Good or bad could even describe identical situations dependent on interpretation.

This clearly proves you “do not” have control, without control you are most likely paying unnecessary costs.
This also demonstrates you may not be compliant, employee welfare standards could be poor & risk high.
To ensure control and reduce vending & catering costs you have to measure employee welfare standards.

Why choose us to improve employee welfare standards & reduce your catering costs?

One day something will go wrong: When controls are completely independent of the caterers and vending

suppliers, any conflict of interests is removed helping you prove

due diligence. Employer liability states YOU HAVE A DUTY OF CARE.

Our independence: Gives you full assurance that there are no ties with existing suppliers.

Our strength: We take the complexity & hassle away leaving you to get on with your core business.

Our aim: We ensure you have the "maximum potential & profit" from your catering facilities and suppliers.

(This is crucial with both in-house and contract catering in today's economic climate!)

Our focus: We benchmark your sites employee welfare risk, welfare facilities & catering standards paying

particular attention to three key areas:

1. Generating more profit from existing catering facilities & suppliers.

2. Your catering facilities, either in-house or contract caterer plus vending related best practice.
3. Testing microbiological standards/ food standards/ Temperature control.

Our results: No need for expensive catering consultants; with our unique report and quantifiable scoring

system you can easily track progress. This means visible measurable improvements, reducing

costs and improving your control of employee welfare standards.

There are important financial and microbiological reasons for needing control:

See Purchasing page for financial benefits. Your situation is no different to that faced by any of our customers.

Food poisoning risk; your food hygiene standards. How many days production does your business lose per year to food poisoning? It's more common than you may think which is why we include laboratory testing with

every assessment!

**Most food poisoning is never reported however typically the lowest UK stat's still show around 80,000

food poisoning cases per year.

Actual levels differ between 850,000 estimated by the FSA (Food standards agency) to

1.2 million as estimated by leading experts.

At the most conservative of estimates this represents well over 10% of the working population.

**The Food Safety Handbook (Level 2) states 1.2 million cases!!"

In summary.

You will reduce your costs along with operational risk and employer liability, while improving food standards and employee welfare quality! This is about taking control without the need for expensive catering consultants.

1.	For control you must have all of the facts. Good and bad!
2.	To establish the facts you need independently compiled data with all vested interest removed; "bias free" .
3.	Data helps with due diligence, impacting liability and ensuring catering budgets work harder!

You can get more from your current caterers and vending suppliers!

You have nothing to lose because your site survey is free: Telephone 0151-929 3273.

Alternatively complete the simple questionnaire on the Contact us page.

For additional information please see various links below.

Health & Safety Executive: Health & Safety Law; what you should know. If further guidance on employer duty of care is required the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) leaflet gives an overview of Health & Safety law.

Directgov – public services all in one place: For Employers' health and safety responsibility guidelines see the UK government: “Directgov” website.

Welfare facts: Find out why employee welfare standards are so important to your business: Employee

welfare from the beginning: A brief insight into the history of employee welfare.

Tougher health & safety penalties enshrined in law reference the Health and Safety (Offences) act which became law January 2009. This article is featured in the SHP (Safety & Health Practitioner).

Your liability: To find out who is ultimately responsible for your employee welfare standards see Your liability as the employer: This is about protecting your interests without paying for expensive catering consultants.

Reducing Risk: To find out how we help you reduce both your employer and employee food poisoning risk see Laboratory testing & UKAS accreditation.

If your interest is HR, **Purchasing, Health & Safety or Facilities: Just hover your curser over the toolbar below "Employee welfare from the beginning" and see the appropriate link to your job type.

** Please note if your primary interest is profit, the Purchasing page outlines additional financial benefits.