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Monthly Food Safety Audit

by Matt Ansell, from the Community

This monthly food safety audit checklist helps restaurants, cafes, and commercial kitchens verify compliance and reduce risk across critical areas. Inspect structure and equipment condition, lighting, ventilation, refrigeration temperatures, and work surfaces. Review contamination controls, allergen separation, color-coded tools, glove use, and pest prevention. Confirm accurate temperature logs, proper thawing and cooling, and calibrated probes. Validate cleaning schedules, chemical use, warewashing, waste handling, and bin practices. Check personal hygiene, handwashing, illness reporting, and uniform standards. Assess labeling, shelf life, storage, and staff training records to drive continuous improvement.

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Monthly Food Safety Audit Checklist
Use this monthly food safety audit checklist to verify kitchen compliance and reduce risk across food preparation areas. Assess structure and equipment condition, lighting, ventilation, sinks, work surfaces, and refrigeration. Check contamination controls, correct separation and storage of foods, color coded tools, glove and apron use, pest free premises, and probe availability. Confirm temperature records, thawing and cooling practices, and calibrated probes. Review cleaning schedules, chemical use, pot wash and dishwashing performance, waste handling, and external refuse areas. Evaluate personal hygiene, handwashing, uniforms, illness reporting, and jewelry rules. Validate allergen controls, labeling, shelf life, and team training records.
by Guillermo Montserrat, from the Community
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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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Capital Food Safety Audit
Use this comprehensive food safety audit checklist to assess cloud and ghost kitchen operations. Evaluate delivery receiving practices, storage conditions and temperatures, labeling and shelf-life control, food preparation and defrosting, cooking, cooling, hot and cold holding, and ice handling. Check foreign body controls, equipment and utensil integrity, and contamination prevention. Verify staff training, personal hygiene, handwashing, glove use, and visitor protocols. Review chemical storage, dishwashing and sanitizing procedures, cleaning schedules and logs, waste management, and pest control. Confirm thermometer calibration and temperature logs. Ensure management oversight, required licenses, and facility upkeep.
by Abdulhadi Antaki, from the Community
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Food Safety and Sanitation Audit Checklist
Use this Food Safety and Sanitation Audit checklist to assess critical controls across your kitchen or food service operation. Verify cooking, reheating, holding, cooling, and thawing temperatures; observe handwashing and illness policies; prevent cross-contamination; confirm sanitizer concentrations; review HACCP logs; and inspect storage, labeling, pest control, equipment, and cleaning practices. Capture photos, scores, and corrective actions to reduce risk, maintain regulatory compliance, and standardize audits across locations.
by Claude Guillaume, from the Community
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