Finding yourself scrambling before an audit? A little stressed about the quality of your records? Feeling less than confident about your upcoming audit?
We're here to give you the hard word that as a Chomp customer, you should be feeling NONE of these things!
The best system in the world is useless if you don't use it.
As former hospitality folk, we understand what it's like to work in a busy kitchen. That's why Chomp was created with these major things in mind:
- make it as easy as possible to stay on top of food safety tasks.
- make it as easy as possible to keep food safety records.
- stop the pre-audit panic by being ready for an audit at any time.
We can confidently say that we've nailed it.
BUT, Chomp can't do it's thing if you don't use it.
They key is to use Chomp daily and complete required tasks. If you're a manager, putting processes in place can help you to do this so that you easily manage food safety and smash your next audit. Read on for our top tips!
Healthy Habits for managers to stay on top of food safety
- Allocate the role of food safety to a team member each shift. They are responsible for ensuring that food safety tasks are completed as required and that there is nothing overdue.
- Make sure you are receiving the Managers Weekly Report. If you aren't contact us at: support@chompfoodsafety.com
- Managers reports show expired tasks, self audit reports overdue, food safety issues and staff training status. This is a great way to see how your venue is tracking and is the first clue that you are not on top of your food safety.
- Allocate a day/time each week to look over everything and take action as needed.
- Know when your next audit is and communicate this to the team so there are no surprises.
- Have regular team meetings to discuss food safety, or include it into an existing meeting. Talking about it reinforces the importance and will help to build a positive food safety culture as well as habits.
- Make Chomp easily accessible. Chomp works on all devices. Encourage your team to have the app on their phone so that they can complete tasks more conveniently.
- If someone goes on leave, reassign responsibilities to ensure that there is always someone responsible for food safety.
We know that there are times when tasks just don't get done. Have honest conversations with your team and verifier as to why these things didn't get done and what you have done about it. We suggest popping in a diary note with an explanation so that you can refer back to it at a later date.
If you can put these tips into practice, you'll be setting yourself up for success in your next audit!
