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Health and Food Safety Audits

Detailed Audits with Action Plan Support

Auditing is integral to process verification and ensures compliance with HACCP and Health & Safety requirements. At Food Protect, we provide comprehensive auditing services designed to identify gaps, highlight strengths and support ongoing improvement in your safety systems.

Our Approach

Food Protect can support you to achieve and maintain high safety standards with our bespoke audit support services. Our audits deliver actionable insights to help your business maintain compliance and enhance operational excellence. We tailor the audit frequency to meet your unique needs, and can create bespoke audit templates to meet your business requirements.

Audits help a business to:

  • Identify and address internal issues early to prevent them from escalating into critical problems.
  • Convey greater reliability to stakeholders, clients and customers.
  • Achieve a higher local authority inspection rating.
Case study

Health and Food Safety Audits for a Multi-Site Contract Catering Business

A multi-site contract catering company lacked a formal audit system for health and food safety management. There was a significant gap between management’s expectations and the actual performance on the ground.

Our Strategy

1. Initial Audits
We worked with the management team to implement an auditing plan with a traffic light scoring system. The initial audits identified several gaps, with amber and red action points.

2. Coaching and Mentoring
Our consultants provided coaching and mentoring to both leadership and operational teams, helping raise the profile of health and food safety across the business.

3. Follow-up Audits
Twelve months later, the second round of audits showed significant improvement, with 90% of sites achieving a “green” score.

The Impact

Leadership and operational teams gained increased confidence in the safety and legal compliance of their daily practices. Through initial audits, they identified key risks and took ownership of action plans. The clear traffic light scoring system enabled the senior management team to see progress in safety compliance standards at the site level.

The coaching and mentoring provided helped shift mindsets, enabling teams to approach health and food safety with greater clarity and accountability. Tailored guidance supported leaders in embedding compliance into routine operations, not just as a checklist, but as a business value.

Staff across all levels became more engaged, understanding not only what to do, but why it mattered. The substantial improvement in audit scores after 12 months demonstrated that the approach was working. Overall, the business is now equipped with a practical, sustainable framework for continuous safety improvement.

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