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

    ultimately 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 may be obvious that employee welfare includes all on-site catering facilities; however when checking standards what is currently used as your yard stick? From an employee welfare compliance and due diligence point of view you need to know if employee welfare standards are 50%, 75% or 80% of where they should be? 

Take any of the following statements and look at them 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 statistical data you are vulnerable. 

	Are your food hygiene standards & employee welfare standards "good” because of what your suppliers  are telling you?
	If so that’s questionable because if left to police themselves whether you have in-house caterers,  contract caterers or a vending operator they all have an obvious vested interest in not publishing any  food hygiene assessment results that could risk the catering contract!
	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.

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

   You reduce 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 in-house caterers, vending operators or contract caterers. 

   Assessment recommendations ensure you can easily target resource resolving minor issues before they

       become major problems.
 

   All dialogue with your in-house caterers or contract caterers and vending operators will be specific,

       meaningful and have purpose; this gives you the best possible chance of improving existing services.

When it comes to your duty of care and risk; unfortunately there isn't any food hygiene information available to tell you as the employer an in-house caterer is safer than a vending operator, or for that matter contract catering supplier. With benchmarking, some of the highest site percentage benchmark scores are achieved by sites that exercise tight control over standards; what makes them special is they apply best practice and work to predetermined set benchmarked guidelines. 
 

Even in these situations it’s still possible for a site to make improvements through simply increasing their benchmark percentage score which of course is what any effective system of continuous improvement is about.

So however good you may believe your Food hygiene standards and employee welfare standards are you need to establish your employee welfare statistical benchmark score.
Please don’t hesitate to telephone or complete the form on the Contact us page to arrange your free site survey. 

Our dd telephone number is 0151-929 3273.