You believe your standards are average! 

    Average employee welfare standards mean nothing

    from a compliance or due diligence point of view and

    are not sufficient for compliance.

    It is an entirely subjective and unquantifiable statement!

    As an employer to reduce your risk and vulnerability

    you need your employee welfare benchmark which

    guarantees food hygiene assurance.

   What is your benchmark?  

• How do you currently measure employee welfare standards? 
• Are you compliant? 

Is your site at 50%, 75% or 80% of where your employee welfare benchmark should be from a

due diligence point of view? 

                                                                                                                   To find out click here.

The facts are that from an employee welfare due diligence and compliance point of view these statements are entirely subjective and unquantifiable! They could even be describing the same business!

Whether you have inhouse, contract catering or just event catering without holding your own statistical data you are vulnerable.

	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 the in-house/ contract caterer standards 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 in-house caterers, contract caterer standards or your last vending operator?  Your previous contract caterer standards or vending operator standards could have been very poor indeed.

What are the main benefits for you of 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. Once armed with data and recommendations it is

       simple to easily manage these areas giving your employees food hygiene assurance. 

   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.

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

the employer ensures they have tight control; what makes the site special is the caterer then has to apply best practice, working to set predetermined benchmark guidelines. 

Even with average employee welfare standards you must establish your employee welfare benchmark statistical score. Please telephone or complete the CSSolutions Ltd form on the Contact us page to arrange your free site survey. 

Our dd telephone number is 0151-929 3273.