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The Fire Log Book

Weekly alarm tests, emergency lighting, extinguisher and fire door checks, and drills: one routine category, exported as its own section.

Inspection Readiness

One ring per inspector, one page per inspector grouped by what they score, your visits and internal audits, and the audit pack from the header.

Supplier Approval

Record when you approved each supplier and when to review them, and clear the Supplier approval chip on the Food Safety Records page.

Leave requests and holiday

Where requests for time off arrive, what the review shows before you decide, and booking leave for somebody yourself.

Assigning Maintenance Work

Give a job to a person, a team or a contractor, and make sure the person it lands on is told.

Maintenance Reporting

What you spent, where the backlog is, which places keep breaking, and what the landlord should be paying for.

PPM Certificates under Documents

Complete a planned maintenance visit with its certificate attached and Paddl files it under Documents, with an expiry worked out from the interval.

Documents and Staff Sign-Off

Upload certificates, policies and reports by category, track expiry and review dates, require staff signatures, and let AI extract key data from what you upload.

Allergen Matrix

Build an accurate allergen matrix with AI, track may-contain and removable allergens, import in bulk, and keep it current.

The labour cost report

What the rota will cost against what the approved hours cost, by site, person and day, and as a share of sales.

Notification Settings

Choose what notifies you and how, set quiet hours, and get a message to the whole team.

Open shifts and swaps in chat

Publish a week and the unfilled shifts land in the site channel as cards staff can claim, and a shift somebody cannot work can be given away from the thread.

Health & Safety Records

One page for the accident book, incidents, near-misses, fitness to work and your health and safety policy, with RIDDOR in brief.

Staff are not getting push notifications

If notifications are not reaching a phone, the usual cause is the phone itself blocking Paddl, even when every switch inside Paddl is on.

Tax Reliefs

Answer a few questions and let Paddl estimate the tax reliefs your business may be leaving unclaimed.

Licensing Records

The weekly licensing check, Challenge 25 training and your licence documents, and the incidents a licensing officer will ask about.

Using Offline Mode

How the app keeps working with no signal, what gets queued, and how it syncs when you reconnect.

Reporting Incidents, Accidents & Near-Misses

File incidents, accidents and near-misses on the Health & safety page, review them, and keep the evidence insurers and inspectors expect.

Records: Checks, Reports and Evidence

The three kinds of record Paddl keeps, where each one lives, and what a dot or a missing row is telling you.

Insurance, licences and lease

See what your business is expected to hold, what you hold and when it renews, and mark what does not apply.

Equipment Management

Track equipment, schedule servicing and PAT testing, attach manuals, and link items to your HACCP controls.

Your Food Hygiene Rating

Link each site to its official FSA listing, read the rating and the three scores behind it, and hear about every change.

Finding Your Way Around

The sidebar and its sections, searching for any page, the Settings home, the bar at the bottom of a phone screen, and what the colours of Paddl's messages mean.

What Ask Paddy can do for you

Ask Paddy can set up routines, book visits, draft paperwork, chase your team and build an audit pack. Here is what to ask for.

Location Monitoring: Noise, Capacity & Refusals

One Records page for sound readings, capacity and refusals, which matter most for pubs, bars, nightclubs and late venues.

Paddy's analysis

How Paddy reads your documents and records in each area, what a finding is, what you can do with one, and when the analysis runs.

Staff Training & Compliance

Assign training modules, run assessments and certificates, manage renewals, and read the compliance matrix.

Preparing for an EHO / Inspection Visit

Readiness in the weeks before, the EHO visit page on the day, and the Audit Pack when they want a file.

Exports, retention, legal hold and privacy

Export a conversation as a PDF for an inspector or a solicitor, set how long messages are kept, and understand when an owner can open a direct message.

Team Chat: the basics

Where chat lives on the phone and in the admin panel, which channels you get, and what happens to a conversation when somebody leaves.

A maintenance job is not showing, or nobody was told

A job that will not appear on somebody phone, an assignment that told nobody, or a request that never became a job.

Review with Paddy on my HACCP plan is not doing what I expect

Why Review with Paddy may suggest nothing, why you might not be able to apply a change, and how to avoid ending up with a duplicate plan.

Food Safety Records

One Records page for food safety: chips for each kind of check or report, Checks and Reports tabs, filters, resolving and export.

Logging Checks & Reports on the App

Use the Report tab to file deliveries, temperatures, accidents, incidents, fitness to work, complaints and maintenance: the same list as the admin panel.

Marking something as not applicable

Take an item off what Paddl expects of your business, for one site or all of them, with a reason that stays on record.

Setting Up Your Business Profile & Locations

Configure business details, add each venue, and set opening hours, timezones, and monitoring thresholds.

PAT Testing

PAT certificates live under Documents in the PAT Testing category, linked to the equipment they cover, with retest reminders.

COSHH Management

Keep a digital COSHH register with safety data sheets, hazard info, PPE, and first aid for every chemical.

Logging Temperature Checks

Log fridge, freezer, cooking, and hot-holding temperatures, with the safe ranges and what to do when a reading is out.

Generating & Signing Off Your SFBB Pack

Generate a Safer Food Better Business pack, assign it, sign off, and stay current with regulatory updates.

Creating, Editing & Exporting HACCP Plans

Generate a HACCP plan with AI from your menu, allergens and COSHH, review and update it with AI, manage CCPs, run reviews and sign-off, and export to PDF.

Maintenance Jobs & Appointments

How a reported fault becomes a booked job, gets a deadline, and is tracked through to done.

Routines and Checklists

See today's tasks across your sites, build recurring checklists with rich field types, schedule them flexibly, assign them, and change them later.

Building your first rota

Draft a week, copy last week forward, and save a template you can reuse.

Fire & Safety Records

One Fire & Safety Records page with chips for the fire log book, fire safety checks and first response, with certificates under Documents.

Scheduling checks around service

The routine editor shows the quiet windows in each site's day so a check lands in a lull, not the lunch rush.