Laboratory Testing & UKAS Accreditation

Advanced food hygiene techniques used benchmark food hygiene monitoring.

Employees are vulnerable to canteen, vending machine and water dispenser workplace food poisoning risk.

When your suppliers are left checking their own standards and they get it wrong remember it is you the employer who has the duty of care and is ultimately held liable for employee welfare!

Complete Supply Solutions Ltd: We help you as the employer manage your common law duty of care.

A culture of E.coli.

E.coli explained- Understanding E.coli.
News update 17th Jan 2011- E.coli school trip farm case.

Fact: Audit uncovered strains of E.coli on drinks vending machine nozzles...

This at a site you would consider very low risk. Why? They have well known contract caterers running their catering and vending; don't ever assume this will not happen to you!

Remember your catering department has a vested interest in ensuring YOU don't independently monitor standards because anything found could risk their catering contract!

As an employer you have a common law duty... So what independent checks do you have in place?
Workplace food poisoning risk and its impact on your business is about much more than simple kitchen hygiene.

An independent workplace catering audit benchmarking all standards protects your interests...

To organise your free site survey Click here.

Workplace food poisoning; employee food poisoning risk. How safe are you?

The FSA (Food standards agency) estimate 850,000 cases of food poisoning every year but most don't make the headlines. It goes without saying that each unreported case is still extremely unpleasant for everybody directly involved!

Your kitchens, canteens, vending machines, water dispensers are at risk from pathogens like E.coli and Salmonella!

We check microbial quality standards using advanced food hygiene techniques including laboratory testing, temperature control and food hygiene monitoring: Giving you the ability to manage your caterers and operated vending suppliers reducing your risk by statistically benchmarking all employee welfare standards.

Moving away from workplace catering and kitchen hygiene we also check your showers or little used site water feeds completing the relevant tests for Legionella. The importance of these tests with reference to your employer liability as the duty holder should not be underestimated.

To quote the head of The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland...
While summing up a recent case Mr Louis Burns concluded:
'Where duty-holders or their agents sub-contract water-treatment programmes, it remains the duty-holders responsibility to ensure that every organisation providing a service is competent and fit for purpose, not just at the start of a contract but throughout the life of the contract.'

Laboratories

The Laboratories quality system is accredited to British / European Standard BS/EN 17025 and has held UKAS accreditation for microbiological water testing since 1997.

UKAS accreditation certificate copies are supplied with all employee welfare standards assessments ("UKAS" The United Kingdom Accreditation Service)

Equipment used

Temperature control, a major contributor to workplace food poisoning risk; it's crucial to ensure your workplace catering inspection data is impartial. Our equipment is supplied by a leading international manufacturer of high quality precision thermometers for the food and pharmaceutical industries, they are ISO9001:2000 Compliant.

Our thermometers and probes are fully maintained and certified on an annual basis by UKAS accredited temperature and humidity calibration laboratories.

UKAS Certificate copies are supplied with your employee welfare assessment.

Assessment certificates

In addition to the UKAS copies outlined above we issue framed certificates confirming your assessment and laboratory testing. Supplied with your completed report, full recommendations and statistical benchmark score.

Certificates clearly demonstrate that your business takes employee welfare and food hygiene monitoring very seriously, and is doing everything possible to combat poor microbial workplace standards; a clear message to your employees and your caterer/ operated vending supplier:

Your employees; that you are proactively looking to supply the best possible employee welfare & workplace catering standards.
Your caterer contracted or in-house/ operated vending supplier; that standards must remain consistent as random food hygiene monitoring, independent employee welfare assessments will uncover true performance levels.
ENSURE consistent standards; suppliers will not know when further tests will take place.

Food poisoning and assessment summary

To summarise; workplace food poisoning rarely occurs because of a single isolated mistake. Workplace food poisoning risk results from management failing to identify hazards and/ or failing to control these hazards:

The contamination of high-risk food
The multiplication of bacteria within the food
The survival of bacteria within the food

Controlling these hazards breaks the chain and prevents workplace food poisoning.

As the employer "you"? have a common law duty and are held liable for employee welfare irrespective of local catering arrangements.

Can you demonstrate due diligence, have you done everything possible to reduce both employer and employee welfare vulnerability?

The first step, establish your sites statistical benchmark score and reduce your food poisoning risk.

Simply complete the form on the Contact us page, to arrange your free site survey. Alternatively Tel: 0151-929 3273.