The Future of Food Safety is Digital & Mobile

Learn how mobile software tools can improve food safety processes

Complying with food safety regulations can be a huge challenge. The laws are numerous and ever-changing, and there may be a high turnover amongst the employees that need to be trained and monitored—especially if you are concerned about food safety compliance across multiple locations.

Typically, Quality Assurance managers are responsible for ensuring food safety by walking through the facility with a printed list of safety and quality measures in hand. Then, they have to enter data into a system—often just a spreadsheet—and create reports by hand. All this work is tedious and time-consuming, but nonetheless essential for avoiding non-compliance penalties that could result in fines, loss of business, or even legal action.

Whether you are a foodservice consultant looking to help your clients improve food safety management and compliance, or you are a QA manager yourself, there is a better way: Take your activities mobile.

Benefits of a Mobile Solution for Food Safety Compliance

Eliminate Pen and Paper

When you switch from pen and paper to a digital auditing tool, you can save time and money on food safety audits. You can evaluate safety measures faster, using pictures if necessary, and eliminate the need for entering data into a spreadsheet later.

Standardize Key Tasks

Using a digital tool rather than a collection of notebooks and log sheets makes it much easier to standardize key tasks. You can simply upload new instructions or checklists as needed, employees can access them on their smartphones or tablets, and you can rest assured everyone is up to speed on the latest compliance standards and best practices.

Improve Accountability

In situations where employees are required to check off when they have completed certain food safety tasks, using a digital tool with a timestamp eliminates the possibility for fudging the records later. For the ultimate in accountability, you could require a photo of finished tasks as well.

Get More from Your Reporting

When the results of your checklists and audits are already digitized, you can immediately begin using this information for reporting, without spending hours at the end of each day, week, month, or quarter combing through paper records. Ideally, you will want to choose software that includes both auditing and reporting functions in one for a seamless experience. Real time reporting that can be displayed as a digital dashboard on key stakeholders’ laptops, tablets, or smartphones is a must to maximize responsiveness to potential problems as they arise.

Why Choose MyFieldAudits

MyFieldAudits was specifically designed for the foodservice industry and contains all the functionalities you need to monitor and manage food safety compliance, as well as many other aspects of your business. Create your own custom checklists, evaluate compliance with a click of a button, and generate digital data that will be stored in the cloud and easily accessible for reporting and sharing.

To learn more, contact us at info@MyFieldAudits.com for your free personalized demo.