Fridge & Freezer Temperature Log Sheets

Fridge and freezer temperature sheets are a crucial part of your food management system. Keeping a daily record will ensure that your fridges and freezers are running at safe temperatures and your food is in the best condition for your customers.

As part of maintaining a high standard of food hygiene, the goal of keeping a fridge and freezer temperature log is to help you identify any potential hazards, so you can take corrective action (repair equipment, get rid of unsafe food, adjust temperatures etc.) before it becomes a problem.

Temperature sheets are one crucial part of a larger food safety process. Rather than keeping all of your health and safety checks on separate pieces of paper or desktop files, try combining them in a single, digital system. Trail is an all-in-one hospitality checklist app that does exactly this. Try it free today, or learn more about food safety checklists if you need more information about the wider process.

What temperature should a fridge and freezer operate at?

According to the Food Standards Agency, your fridge temperature should be below 8˚C (this is a legal requirement) and your freezer should be around -18ºC. Your business should carry out temperature checks at least once a day.

To help make maintaining temperature records part of your process, you could combine it with other food safety opening checks.

How to simplify your fridge & freezer temperature records

It’s easy to slip up on your safety checks when your fridge and freezer temperature sheet is just another piece of paper floating somewhere around your establishment. Digitising your records and keeping them in one place, alongside your other health and safety checks, is the best way to make sure that crucial steps don’t get missed in the bustle of daily work.

Benefits of Trail’s digital temperature logs

• Get rid of all that paperwork. Maintain a complete digital record and cut down on the repetitive data entry. Get simple bite-sized tasks, all in one app, with no physical paperwork to keep track of.
• Streamline food safety practices. Fridge and freezer temperature logs are woven into your team’s working day so everyone knows what to do and when to do it. Trail can even integrate with the latest fridges to automate readings and save your team time.
• Corrective action. Trail automatically prompts your teams if a temperature is outside the normal range, so you can take corrective actions, so you can fix equipment or throw away contaminated food before it becomes a problem.
• Photographic evidence. Whether it’s a photo to document corrective action or to prove the recordings were taken, mandatory photos help protect your business and you prove the right action was taken.
• Digital audit logs. Accountability made simple. Prove to management and auditors that your team is up-to-date with digital audit logs and report any problems or actions taken.‍

Start using Trail for your fridge and freezer temperature sheets

You can try Trail free for 14 days if you want to see the difference that digitising your temperature checks (and many other processes) can make.

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