Our food hygiene and health and safety consultants and auditors provide health and safety and food hygiene audit, kitchen inspection, HACCP audit, HACCP plan, HACCP forms, Small and Local Supplier Approval - SALSA - mentors and assistance, sous-vide HACCP and consultancy, Safer Food Better Business - SFBB - coaching, food safety management system - FSMS - packs, food safety policy, food poisoning allegations, food safety complaints, health and safety policy, risk assessment, fire safety risk assessment. We operate mainly in Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Essex and London but have consultants throughout the UK.
We are food hygiene rating scheme (FHRS) specialists. Many of our our food safety consultants are ex-EHOs used to working with FHRS schemes. We provide FHRS predictions, free FHRS handbooks, FHRS workshops and food hygiene audits. We keep you up-to-date with the latest FHRS progress and provide advice notes to help you prepare for a FHRS inspection. We can also help you appeal if you feel you have been given an unfair FHRS.
If coming from the M25 take the A41 towards Hemel Hempstead and Aylesbury. Ignore the Berkhamsted turn off and instead come off at the A416 to Chesham but follow the signs to Berkhamsted. You will travel about a quarter of a mile before the road starts to drop and you sweep around a sharp right handed bend. At the traffic lights in the centre of Berkhamsted, turn right. We are half a mile on the right opposite St.Peters Church.
Berkhamsted Station is on the London Midland Line and is 5-10 minutes walk to our offices. We are only 35 minutes by train from London Euston.
Safer Food Scores is a team of food hygiene and health and safety consultants and trainers managed by Melissa Thompson MCIEH. Melissa is a director of the company and a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner. She graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with the HCIMA (now the Institute of Hospitality) Best Student Award before forging a career in the hospitality industry.
Having always found EHO inspections both scary and intriguing, she was surprised at how easily her catering skills transferred to enforcement. Melissa had found her niche and was able to use her catering experience to assist businesses in finding practical solutions to compliance problems. She was also able to quickly tell when the wool was being pulled over her eyes!
Melissa completed a part-time degree at the University of Greenwich whilst working full-time. Within months of graduating she was promoted to an Environmental Health Section Leader in charge of a team of enforcement officers with responsibility for food hygiene and health and safety in the borough’s food businesses. Priding herself in taking formal enforcement action only as a last resort but having never lost a case, Melissa worked in enforcement for 13 years reaching the position of Environmental Health Service Manager.
Melissa worked for five years for one of the leading food hygiene consultancies as an account manager, principal environmental health consultant and trainer before setting up Safer Food Scores. During that time she provided strategic consultancy to a number of prestigious restaurant, pub and hotel chains.
Our team of consultants and trainers have been carefully selected on the basis of their qualifications, experience and attitude. We understand the pressure that catering and hospitality companies are under now more than ever. We are committed to providing sensible advice to help you comply with the law in a way that suits your operation and style of working.
Large enough to cope but small enough to care’ is a statement that best describes our company. We’re passionate about food hygiene and health and safety and want to make it as easy as possible for you to maintain high standards and comply with the law.
- We are fully qualified and highly professional specialists. By working in partnership with you we can enhance your reputation with EHOs and with your customers.
- We are friendly, reliable, confidential and quick to respond. We are happy to go the extra mile to assist and support you.
- We listen to you carefully to make sure that we provide the assistance you need and regularly check that you are delighted with our services.
We are currently recruiting consultants and trainers
If you would like to work for a dynamic and exciting food hygiene and health and safety training company and consultancy, we would love to hear from you. Our clients demand excellence (and rightly so) and it is essential therefore that you are able to communicate clearly and act professionally at all times. You should be friendly, helpful and understand the absolute requirement for confidentiality.
It goes without saying that you will be fully qualified in your area of expertise and that you will have the necessary experience to be able to provide practical and cost effective compliance solutions for our clients. Trainers should be energetic and understand the need to make our training courses interesting and fun. We currently have vacancies on a sub-contracting basis for the following positions:
