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How is your Food Hygiene Rating even calculated? Is it a mysterious number that gets plucked out of thin air? In this short advice article we’re going to be de-mystifying the illusive food safety scores and explaining how you can ensure you get a 5* food hygiene score every time!

So, let’s get started! When it comes to your Food Hygiene Rating, your inspector is looking at three important things:

  • how hygienically the food is handled,
  • the condition of the premises structure, and
  • confidence in management and documentation.
Navitas Food Safety Criteria
Navitas Food Safety Score v Rating

A score of between 0 -25 and 0 -30 is given for each of these criteria and the final Food Hygiene Rating given depends on how well you do overall. As you can see from the table above, ‘confidence in management and documentation’ is the most heavily weighted element and therefore can have the greatest impact on the score you receive. Unlike in a ‘normal exam’, the goal here is to score as low as possible, with a higher score resulting in a poor hygiene rating.

In order to get a 5* rating, you must score no more than 5 in each of the areas-so consistency across all areas of your food hygiene and management is key. The most common area where food service businesses fail is due to their food safety management system, e.g. a lack of, or no, documentation to evidence that a food safety management system is in place. So, while the premises may not be dirty and the food may be handled perfectly hygienically, there is no evidence or documentation to show that food safety is being taken seriously. Think about it like this; if there’s no proof that you’re always doing everything correctly, then how can the inspector have the confidence that the standards they observe at your site on the day of the visit is really what it’s like on a day to day basis. So although yes the paperwork can be a bit of a pain, it’s really important to keep your customers safe. But fear not… Navitas has a solution to make managing food safety so much easier.
Navitas Digital Food Safety ensures that you always have your food safety records in check. Implementing a digital food safety management system gives you total visibility of your food safety, for total safety confidence. All of your paperwork, checklists, HACCP plans, SOPs and more are stored digitally in a single central database, allowing for quick and easy access at any time, from anywhere. Your staff can complete their daily cleaning checks with the touch of a screen, saving them time and eliminating paperwork entirely.
We also provide our digital temperature probe and automated appliance monitoring system which makes taking food temperatures super fast and you’ll never have to take a fridge and freezer temperature ever again. Think of all that extra time you’ll have!
You could save in excess of 21 hours a month by going digital, allowing you to redistribute this cost and labour in much better ways.
Visit www.navitas.eu.com to find out more about how Navitas can support you with all of your food safety requirements! You can also download our inspection checklist to help you get inspection ready for free here: https://www.navitas.eu.com/food-hygiene-inspection-checklist/
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