Average ?

You believe your standards are average!

This is an entirely subjective and unquantifiable statement!

Average employee welfare standards mean nothing from a compliance or due diligence point of view and are certainly not sufficient for compliance.

As an employer to reduce your risk and employee vulnerability you need your statistical employee welfare benchmark which guarantees food hygiene assurance.

What is your benchmark?

As an employer how do you measure employee welfare standards?
Are you compliant?

Your site; is the employee welfare benchmark 50%, 75% or 80% from a due diligence point of view?

The facts are that without an employee welfare benchmark, from a due diligence and compliance point of view good, bad and average statements are entirely subjective and unquantifiable!

They could even be describing the same catering department or contract caterer standards!
Whether you have inhouse, contract catering or just event catering you are vulnerable to additional costs and risk if you do not hold your own statistical data benchmarking their performance.

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CSSolutionsLtd statistically benchmark your site ensuring you uncover the facts.

Are employee welfare and catering standards "average" because of what your employees are telling you?
If so this is certainly a case where familiarity breeds contempt and there are always ulterior motives.
Are employee welfare and catering standards "good" because of what your suppliers are telling you?
That's questionable, if left to police themselves whatever your catering or vending operator standards they all understandably have a vested interest; so would not publish any results that could jeopardise the catering contract.
Maybe employee welfare and catering standards are "excellent" based on personal experiences i.e. compared to previous caterers?
Your previous contract caterer standards or vending operator standards could have been very poor indeed.

What are the main benefits for you when benchmarking employee welfare standards?

Once correctly measured you can reduce catering related costs, site risk and clearly improve general welfare quality standards giving food hygiene assurance to employees.
With control you are able to give direction; this is of course applicable whether you have in-house caterers, vending operators, contract caterers or event catering. Data and recommendations demonstrate that you are doing everything possible to control catering department standards which protects your interests as an employer.
It's only with assessment recommendations that you can easily target resource resolving minor issues before they become major problems.
All dialogue with your caterers or vending operator will be specific, meaningful and have purpose; this gives you the best possible chance of improving existing services without needing to invest in new facilities.

It's important to underline that an employee welfare assessment is about establishing best practice; not the best and most expensive equipment.

This is NOT about being told to change your contract catering supplier or invest vast sums on site facilities good, poor or average employee welfare standards turn out to be!!

What is best for me?
There are no statistics that say vending operator standards are any better than in-house catering or contract caterer standards. Some of the highest site percentage benchmark scores are achieved by sites where employers have tight control; what makes the site special is the caterer then has to apply best practice, working to set predetermined benchmark guidelines.

Average employee welfare standards or not, you must establish your employee welfare benchmark statistical score.

Complete the CSSolutions Ltd form on the Contact us page to arrange your free site survey or Tel: 0151-929 3273.