A food safety management system template UK businesses can use has to produce two things: the HACCP-based plan the law requires and the records that show it is followed. The gov.uk guidance for food businesses, cited below, says a food safety management system must meet the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point principles, and describes critical control points as the points when you need to prevent, remove or reduce a hazard in your work process. The HACCP plan template on this site prints the plan from your processes; the temperature log planner, the allergen matrix, the traceability record, the audit checklist and the labels planner print the records; all free, without an account. The paid product keeps them.
The plan part of the template
The processes the kitchen runs, the hazards at each step, the critical control points, their limits, the monitoring routine, the corrective actions, the verification and the record-keeping. The FDA's HACCP principles and application guidelines, cited below, describe HACCP as a systematic approach to the identification, evaluation and control of food safety hazards based on seven principles. The template counts the processes and the control points and prints the plan sized to the kitchen.
The record part
Temperature records sized to the fridges and the checks per day; the allergen matrix from the menu; the traceability record per delivery; the audit checklist; the date labels. The Food Standards Agency's cooking-your-food guidance, cited below, gives the danger zone as between 8 and 63°C, where bacterial growth occurs, and says leftovers must be cooled and put in the fridge within two hours and eaten within 48 hours. The same guidance gives the cooking standard as 70°C for 2 minutes, or the equivalents it lists, 75°C for 30 seconds among them.
What the template cannot supply
The kitchen's own processes, menu, equipment and staff. A template that arrives filled is a template for somebody else's kitchen, and the inspector scores the management of food safety against this one.
From the template to the system
The plan printed and the records kept for every trading day is the system; the folder or the app is where it lives. FoodDocs lists its Lite plan at $99 per site per month billed monthly or $79 billed annually, and its Standard plan at $199 per site per month, with a free 14-day trial, on its pricing page cited below. ProbeLedger Pro is $49 per month for the whole site.
Questions people ask about food safety management system template uk
Is Safer Food Better Business a template?
It is the FSA's pack, built on HACCP principles; it is a system when used and kept current.
Do I need a consultant?
Competence and the FSA's guidance; a small kitchen's plan is within the reach of the person who runs it.
Is the template free?
Yes, every tool on this site works without an account.