Third Party Food Safety Audits
Who Is It For?
Mulitple food operators anywhere in the UK
Our food safety inspection programmes currently work in support of some of the biggest names in the UK pub, restaurant and retail sectors.
If you are a multiple operator of any size or location, we have a team of inspectors ready to give you the support you need to achieve confidence around your business.
Why Does It Work?
Our food safety inspectors are completely impartial,
Our team of experts have no other role than to carefully inspect your site against an agreed food safety, health & safety and fire safety standard.
The data and reporting allow you to make significant and continued improvements, making independent inspections a powerful tool in your food safety management system.
At Audit Point, we have demonstrated this success with improved FHRS Scores on the Doors across our clients' estates
What Does Independent Mean, And What Are The Benefits?
Why use a third party for your food safety inspection programmeA third party audit is an inspection on a product or process carried out by an external body or individual. Specifically this is someone who has not been involved in the process or product being evaluated.
When you are visited by your local environmental health officer, this is an independent / third party food safety audit, which can have significant impact on your business in terms of the Food Hygiene Rating System.
Using an expert to mirror that assessment in a friendly but critical way can have many benefits:
- The auditor will make an honest assessment of standards, but there are no direct consequences, only opportunities to improve
- Your inspector or provider will be responsible for staying up to date with all legislative changes
- You don't have to travel between multiple sites in order to conduct all of your audits
- The separation of audit and the corrective actions doubles your validation of improvements
- You can boost the technical capacity of your team without having to recruit a full time food safety auditor
Sectors Audit Point Works With:
We have supported a huge range of businesses over the past 30 years, providing third party food safety audits, along with powerful reporting and an online management platform where thousands of corrective actions have been logged by our clients.
- Restaurants
- Takeaways
- Food Kiosks
- Pubs
- Retailers
If you operate multiple sites and would like independent inspections to help you assess and improve your food safety compliance, get in touch here today.
Want to discuss third party food safety audits today?
Preparing for a food safety audit- Be aware of your procedures
- Have your record keeping up to date
- Do your own site walk through
- Record your findings and take action
- Maintain strong hygiene standards at all times
- Double check your stock rotation
Following a third party audit- A detailed report should follow every audit
- The report will act as your to do list
- Prioritise your corrective actions
- Correct any business critical findings immediately
- Get all of your corrective actions verified on completion
- Request a re-visit if warranted to confirm improvements
What Does Our Food Safety Expert Say:
A third party food safety inspection should be challenging, but positive for you and your team. The goal on the day is to work through the standards you have in place, inspect both your premises and your paper / digital records, and score your operation based on compliance with those standards.
The commentary provided from the safety audit will then give you tools to implement corrective actions, and move towards complete compliance.
That means you and the team are moving towards a food safety compliant business both during and following the audit, allowing you to have total confidence in your operation once your corrective actions are complete and verified.
It is always a collaborative effort.
Julia Marshall - Operations Manager, Audit Point
