Food safety management is crucial to the success of foodservice kitchens and non-commercial kitchens of all types. Keeping customers safe from poor hygiene practices, mishandled food, cross-contamination and more is the key to keeping your operation running smoothly.
How do you ensure high standards of food safety? And how do you ensure staff are following food safety protocols? The answer is simple: The easiest way to ensure high standards of food safety is through digital food safety checklists.
Why digital, you ask? What is the problem with traditional paper checklists?
Let’s discuss.
Benefits of Digital Forms & Checklists
Traditional, paper checklists have been the standard in kitchens for decades. However, there is always the potential for damage and spills to compromise the process, as well as the clumsiness of printing or handwriting lists, and carrying a clipboard can take up space in already busy prep spaces.
With digital food safety checklists, you eliminate the hassle of manual recordkeeping, avoid the errors that come of hasty, handwritten checklists, and lets you build food safety compliance forms quickly and easily from a separate, clean dashboard. This allows you to create and schedule easy-to-use cleaning task checklists to guide staff through daily hygiene management.
Not only do digital hygiene checklists guide employees through daily tasks, but they also allow managers to review and approve forms and set weekly approvals for recurring task checklists, and standardise task approvals, automate scheduling, and customise and deploy forms instantly across single and multivenue operations. This ensures consistent, quality standards for franchise and chain foodservice operations.
Choosing the Right Food Safety Software
How do you choose the right software or app for digitising forms and checklists? It is important to consider all you will have access to when investing in digital food safety management.
There are several features to consider. Task Manager from NCCO, for example, allows you to achieve the following:
- Access library of standard HACCP compliance forms and digitise existing forms with custom form builder
- Enhance managerial oversight and quality control of HACCP food safety procedures with task approval feature
- Streamline critical food safety tasks, easily schedule checklists and forms, and ensure food safety compliance in the kitchen with an automated scheduler
- Eliminate the burden of manual documentation and lost/error-ridden forms
Plus, you will be able to hold staff and managers accountable with analytics on demand. Digital food safety management gives management the ability to receive daily reports and instances of non-compliance. The Task Manager centralised management portal allows for quick access to all reports and proof of compliance for EHOs.
- On demand, multi venue report management
- Intuitive search, filter, and export functionality
- Historical views for over 5+ years
- Checklist grading system
Digital food safety checklists help prioritise hygiene and food safety in the kitchen, and they also ensure allergen awareness and limit cross-contamination to keep customers – and foodservice reputations – safe from error and illness.
Without organisation, hygiene management in commercial and non-commercial kitchens alike can become chaotic. Digital tools can improve accuracy, accessibility, and organisation of food safety documentation.