See How Your Standards Compare?

Remember your catering and vending food hygiene standards form a significant part of your employee welfare standards:

Do you know how good or bad they really are?

As the employer this makes you vulnerable from a due diligence point of view!
Why? You have a duty of care meaning you are held responsible for your employees' welfare!

We reduce your vulnerability, costs and risk based on improving your benchmark score which helps with a due diligence defence!

What is your benchmark?

It's obvious that employee welfare includes all on-site catering facilities; however when checking standards from a compliance and due diligence point of view you need to know if hygiene standards are 50%, 75% or 80% of where they should be.
What food hygiene information checks do you currently carry out (completely) independently of the caterers or their consultants?

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Check the following statements from a due diligence point of view; each is typical in yet entirely subjective and unquantifiable! Remember you have a duty of care; if you can not provide hygiene standards statistical data you are vulnerable.

• Are your food hygiene standards & employee welfare standards "good"? because of what your suppliers are telling you?
  If left to police themselves whether you have caterers or operated vending their is an obvious vested interest not to bring to your attention any food hygiene assessment results that could risk the catering contract or their margins!
• Are your food hygiene standards & employee welfare standards "bad"? because of what your employees are telling you?
  If so this is certainly a case where familiarity breeds contempt; there are always ulterior motives.
• Maybe your food hygiene standards & employee welfare standards are "excellent"? based on personal experiences; compared to previous in-house caterers, contract caterers or vending operator standards?
  Your previous contract catering supplier could have been very poor indeed.

If you would prefer to carry out your own audit of standards visit the Self audit section of this website.

What are the main benefits of a welfare assessment establishing your score?

• You reduce true catering related costs, site risk and of course clearly improve general welfare quality standards for employees.
• Food hygiene assessment data and recommendations ensures clear direction with minimal input; whether you have caterers or vending operators.
• Assessment recommendations ensure you can easily target resource resolving minor issues before they become major problems.
• All dialogue with your caterers and vending operators will be specific, meaningful and have purpose; this gives you the best possible chance of improving existing services.

An employee welfare service food hygiene assessment is about establishing best practice; not the best and most expensive equipment. It is NOT about investing in new site facilities or changing your contract catering supplier!!

Which gives better food hygiene standards, in-house catering or contract catering?

Food hygiene information statistics stating the are unfortunately not available which tell you as the employer which method of catering is safest.
The highest site percentage benchmark scores are achieved by sites that exercise tight control; what makes them special is they apply best practice and work to predetermined set benchmarked guidelines.

So however good you may believe food hygiene standards and employee welfare standards currently are you need to establish your employee welfare statistical benchmark score.

Either complete the simple form on the Contact us page to arrange your free site survey or telephone 0151-929 3273.