Are You Inspection-Ready? Take Our Food Hygiene Readiness Quiz!
What is the food hygiene readiness quiz?
The quiz is designed by EHOs to pin point the areas that could really affect the safety of your food and also your food hygiene rating score.
“It identifies the gaps that actually matter, and turns them into straightforward actions, exactly the sort of thing EHOs look for. The instant report makes it easy to prioritise training, records, cleaning verification, allergen controls and traceability without drowning in paperwork. A simple, time-saving route to feeling inspection-ready with real confidence.”
How the quiz works
There are 10 questions to reveal an overall food safety score that is broken down into 3 sections
Food Hygiene Practices
Food Safety Documentation
Allergen information
plus 5 extra questions about the food business owner or manager’s current situation.
In under 2 minutes the quiz generates results with tailored feedback for the food business owner or manager on how to elevate their food standards ready for when the food inspector turns up, helping you to feel confident about your food hygiene rating score.
Colourful bowls of Italian food in a restaurant
Who should take the Food Hygiene Inspection Readiness Quiz?
New or existing food business owners or managers who are waiting for an inspection, rerating inspection or just want to know what food safety areas to focus on to ensure they are inspection ready.
We know as EHOs that food businesses often don’t concentrate on the things which are really important (because lots of other things get in the way) and could significantly affect their food hygiene rating score such as:
having up to date food safety documentation,
carrying out regular maintenance such as replacing broken tiles or ripped floor coverings,
completing regular management audits to check food hygiene standards and pinpointing recurring issues to focus on.
ensuring that allergen information and controls are documented, accurate and up to date,
This is why the food hygiene inspection readiness quiz is such a great tool which can be used by all types of catering businesses.
A barista making a coffee
How can Food Safety Logic help you get inspection ready?
Once we have helped you to identify the areas you need to concentrate on we can support you getting new systems or practices in place to make sure that you are inspection ready including:
creating, reviewing or updating your food safety management system and monitoring checks
signing you up to our digital kitchen diary to record all your due diligence checks including opening and closing, temperature, critical control points and cleaning checks
completing a food hygiene audit at your premises to give you bespoke advice on the areas that you need to focus on including structural maintenance, cleaning, date labelling, allergen information, food storage etc.
doing a training needs assessment and organising accredited or bespoke training courses
A level 5 Food Hygiene Rating Score sticker
5 surprising insights from food business owners who took the quiz
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You should review your food safety management system annually OR when something changes in your business. For example change of menu, purchase a vacuum packing machine, start doing food deliveries. Each time you make changes log them at the beginning of the document and give it a new date and version number.
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Allergen information and internal audits were two areas where the majority of business owners indicated that they could make improvements.
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Keeping the walls, floors and ceilings maintained is not just about looking good. It makes it much easier for staff to clean them thoroughly as there is less likelihood of them harbouring dirt and grease.
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Allergen awareness training is FREE and can be accessed from the Food Standards Agency website. Remember to give staff in-house allergen awareness training BEFORE they start work on your procedures.
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This is great news but make sure the temperatures being recorded are compliant and reflect your food safety management system. Temperatures can be recorded manually or digitally on an app as long as they are accessible at all times.
The results are in and show that although there is some great work being done there are still some areas that need attention in order to keep customers safe and achieve a Very Good Food Hygiene Rating score.
