We know that meeting Health and Safety regulations can be a daunting task, so we've made that easier for you. From the Food safety Navigator, you'll find all of the handy food safety-related resources you need to make sure your business has Health & Safety covered. Let's get started!

What's Included in the Food safety Navigator?

The Food safety Navigator brings a whole host of useful features to BrightSafe including: * Create responsibilities for your team and easily manage recurring Heath & Safety tasks that need to be carried out. * Get your hands on guidance notes, forms and checklists to help you carry out Heath & Safety tasks in your business. * Complete and share CPD & RoSPA assured E-learning courses with staff, and educate your team on the latest Health & Safety laws. * Manage risk assessments -  Either from our library of templates or from scratch and use them to meet regulatory standards and handle risks in your workplace. 

Summary

Now you know what the Food safety Navigator is and all of the great features you'll have access to, let's go into a little more detail.

Now, let's look at some of the handy Food safety resources and E-learning courses that you can access. Just head to 'Food safety' from the 'Navigators' section of your account to get started!

E-learning

Firstly, to get to our library of CPD-accredited e-learning courses, click on the 'E-learning' section at the top of the Food safety Navigator.

Here, you'll find a suite of courses which are tailor-made for the food sector, these courses have been assured by CPD & RoSPA Qualifications.

So, whether you need training for new starters or long-term staff, our online courses can help you educate your team on the latest laws & guidance - with a click!

How to View & Share the Course

To start a course, just click on the course you want to start and hit the 'Start course' button to begin.

Sharing the course with your employee's is super simple, using the assignment feature, you can select from a list of our E-learning courses! Simply select your employees, select the courses, assign a due date and track completion using the reports section as well as access the certificate once completed by the employee.

You can watch the video below to see how easy it is to assign courses to your staff.

Food Safety Essential Resources

At the top of the Food safety navigator, you can click the 'Essential resources' tab, to find everything you need to handle and prepare food safely. 

Our documents cover a wide range of topics specific to food safety, including food safety management plans, operational steps, and more. 

You'll find downloadable templates covering:

• 60+ record forms and guidance sheets. 
• HACCP templates to support you in creating a food management plan.
• Operational steps and process flow diagrams.

Summary

Now you know where to access all of our handy resources to support you with food safety within your business. Let's move on to how you can set up some responsibilities for yourself and your staff.

Now we've gone through E-learning and resources, you've read our guidance on the best approach to take. What's next?

Now we can look at assigning responsibilities, what these are and also how to keep on top of them.

What are Food Safety Responsibilities?

There are many tasks that you need to carry out when it comes to food safety. This may be  sanitation, pest control or stock control, but don't worry! With Brightsafe it is as simple as ever to set up responsibilities to ensure everyone knows which tasks they need to carry out..

How do I keep on Top of my Responsibilities?

Just click on the 'Create responsibilities' button in the Food safety navigator to get started. Our food safety responsibility templates tell you exactly what tasks need to be done and how often you should complete them, it's that simple! 

Let's look at how easy this is to set up...

Responsibilities Planner

Next, let's have a look at the responsibilities that we have created. We will see any ongoing or overdue responsibilities.

Summary

You now know just how easy setting responsibilities is with the food safety navigator. next up, let's take a look at adding some food safety Risk Assessments.

Let's take a look at how you can create and manage risk assessments in just a few simple steps.

Creating a new Risk Assessment

We have a whole host of risk assessment templates specific to food safety, that have been expertly crafted by our Safety team. Use them to meet regulatory standards and reduce the risks in your workplace.

All you need to do is click the 'Create' button next to Health and Safety at work risk assessments in the food safety navigator to get started. Then just follow each of the interactive steps to add details of each hazard within your workplace. Let's go into each section of creating your risk assessment in more detail.

Step 1

Details

In this first section, you'll need to enter some basic details for the risk assessment you're creating including:

• A name for your risk assessment.
• The date you conducted the risk assessment.
• Which site the risk assessment was conducted at.
• The exact room, area or workspace for the risk assessment.

You can also choose to add in a reference for the risk assessment and a task description if needed.

Once filled in just click 'Save and Continue' to move on to the next step.

Step 2

People

In the next section, you'll need to enter some details of the people involved in the risk assessment including:

• Who the risk assessor was.
• Who assisted the risk assessor (if needed.)
• Details of any non-employees.
• Who the people at risk are.

Once filled in just click 'Save and Continue' to move on to the next step.

Step 3

Hazards

In this step, you'll need to enter some details on any hazards. Just click 'Add a new hazard' to get started.

You'll then need to add:

• A name for your hazard, you can either select one from our handy list or type something new.
• Details of the possible harm.
• Any control measures you have in place to prevent, eliminate or reduce the occurrence of the hazard.

Once filled in click 'Add Hazard' to save and add your hazard.

Step 4

Actions

Now that you've added a hazard you add details for any follow-up actions you may need to take.

To add an action just hit the 'Add your first action' button then fill in:

• Your action title.
• Details of the required action.
• Who you'd like to assign this action to.
• The date this action is due to be completed.

Once filled in click 'Add action' to save and add your action, this will also automatically create a task for the assigned person.

Once all your hazards and actions are added click 'Save and continue' to move onto the next step.

Step 5

Review

In this last step, you'll need to fill in some details on when this risk assessment is due to be reviewed including:

• The date of the review.
• Who will be assigned to conduct the review.

We'll automatically create a task for the reviewer so that they know when this is due.

Once completed just click 'Save and complete' to complete and save your risk assessment. A copy of this will also be securely stored in the risk assessments section of BrightSafe so you can always refer back to it.

Changing views & using Filters

To help find what you're looking for easier, we have several filters and two different views of how to find and navigate your risk assessments. 

Now you know how to create, manage and review food safety-related Health & safety tasks within your business. You're a BrightSafe expert!