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Food Hygiene Audit Checklist 2023

by Lijean Chan, from the Community

This food hygiene audit checklist helps food service teams assess personal hygiene, kitchen cleanliness, storage, and documentation to maintain safe operations. Sections cover personal hygiene practices, food preparation areas, cooking and production, chillers and freezers, dry goods storage, dishwashing, staff lockers, and dining areas. It highlights proper temperature control, separation of raw and cooked foods, FEFO stock rotation, pest prevention, equipment upkeep, refuse handling, and cleaning routines. The template supports training verification, regulatory registration, and pest control records, enabling consistent, compliant audits across restaurants and catering sites.

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Food Hygiene Audit Checklist
This Food Hygiene Audit Checklist helps restaurants, cafes, and commercial kitchens verify compliance with food safety standards. It covers personal hygiene, kitchen and equipment sanitation, food preparation practices, cross-contamination controls, thawing and storage procedures, chiller and freezer temperature management, FEFO stock rotation, dry-goods storage, dishwashing practices, waste handling, pest control evidence, and dining area cleanliness. It also prompts checks for staff training, regulatory registrations, and documentation so teams can maintain consistent, audit-ready operations and reduce contamination risks.
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Food Hygiene Inspection Checklist
Use this food hygiene inspection checklist to evaluate kitchen and food-service hygiene across storage, handling, preparation, and display. Verify clean and well-maintained food rooms and equipment, proper separation of raw and ready-to-eat food, date coding and stock rotation, correct use of color-coded tools, safe cooling and defrosting, allergen controls, handwashing and personal hygiene, pest and waste control, and accurate records with time/temperature checks. Ideal for restaurants, cafes, and catering teams to standardize audits and ensure compliance with food safety regulations.
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Kitchen Audit Checklist for Food Safety
Use this kitchen audit checklist to assess hygiene, food storage, temperature control, and equipment maintenance across the back yard, delivery areas, chillers and freezers, dry storage, prep stations, dishwashing, dessert station, and cook line. Verify separation of raw and ready to eat foods, labeling and defrost practices, FIFO rotation, PPE and chemical controls, and daily cleaning routines. Check HACCP critical temperatures, probe accuracy, hot holding, cooling, and documented records. Ideal for restaurants and food service teams to maintain compliance and reduce risk.
by Simon Cook, from the Community
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Caterer Kitchen Hygiene Audit Checklist 2022
This catering kitchen hygiene audit checklist helps caterers and food service teams assess compliance across the full operation. It covers entrance controls, raw material and vegetable storage, preparation areas, food production, dishwashing, personal hygiene, food transportation, waste management, general facility management, and statutory compliance. Items include PPE use, handwashing, pest control, FIFO and FEFO practices, calibrated refrigeration, cross contamination prevention, equipment maintenance, temperature recording, cleaning schedules, and required licenses and training. Use this template to standardize inspections and document corrective actions.
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