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Implementing these steps into your daily business routine can help to ensure you pass your next health inspection, keeping your customers and employees safe and healthy.
Health inspections play an important role in protecting the public from food-borne illness by ensuring that restaurants’ food handling practices are up to code. While having an inspector visit may seem intimidating, it doesn’t have to be if you are prepared.
Some of the most common health code violations include:
A routine health department inspection can be one of the most stressful days of the year if you’re not prepared. But try to keep in mind that the inspector is not on a mission to shut down your restaurant. Health inspectors are professionals who job is to keep the public safe through ensuring that every restaurant is following proper health codes, food safety practices, food hygiene practices, staff hygiene and proper preparation procedures.
Typically, health inspections occur at random, about every six months. Inspectors can arrive at any time, any day of the week, without warning. Don’t get caught off guard. Apply the checklist below into your restaurant operations to ensure that your restaurant passes every inspection.
While this checklist provided by StateFoodSafety is a good starting point, be sure to research your local requirements and expectations as some standards will depend on your federal, provincial, municipal and regional health authorities.
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Legal
Implementing these steps into your daily business routine can help to ensure you pass your next health inspection, keeping your customers and employees safe and healthy.
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