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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.

Recording Deliveries & Traceability

Check deliveries in against the supplier's paperwork, take chilled and frozen temperatures, and keep the batch detail you need for a recall.

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.

COSHH Management

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

Uploading Your Certificates & Documents

Add a food hygiene or first aid certificate, a training record, or an ID document to your own profile from the app, with expiry reminders.

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.

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.

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.

Shared tablets: tapping in with a PIN

A tablet behind the bar can be used by the whole team without everybody sharing one login, so check-ins and messages are attributed to the right person.

My automation did not fire

Work through the usual reasons a rule did not run or create its task.

Turning a message into a job, a task or a report

A photo of a fault does not need retyping: turn the message into a maintenance job, a quick task, a handover note or a report, and the thread follows it.

Broadcasts and acknowledgements

Send one message to everyone, a site, a group, a role or an employment type, and get a report of who read it and who acknowledged it.

An alert is not being raised

When you expect Paddl to flag something and it does not, check whether the alert was already handled or whether the thing it watches is switched off.

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 temperature log or report is missing

If a reading or report you expected is not in the records, check where and how it was logged before assuming it was lost.

Ask Paddy cannot answer a question or will not do something

Why Paddy comes back with nothing, why it sometimes declines an action on purpose, and what to do about each.

A document is not showing for staff to sign

When a policy or document does not reach the people who need to sign it, check whether it is archived, who it is assigned to, and where they are.

A staff member cannot log in

Most sign-in problems come down to the account, the invite, or the subscription rather than the password itself.

Switching Modules On and Off

Choose which parts of Paddl your business uses under Settings > Modules, and what happens to the pages, alerts and Ask Paddy when one is off.

Switching Between Businesses & Adding a New One

Use the business switcher to move between businesses you belong to, and add a new business with its own billing.

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.

Customer Complaints

Log complaints, categorise them, link a corrective action, and track resolution so patterns surface early.

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.

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.

Add manager notes to the handover report

Leave attributed notes on the day's handover so the next shift knows what changed.

Handovers

Where handover and end-of-day reports live in the admin panel, how to acknowledge one, and what the Handovers module switches on.

React when a temperature is logged out of range

Automatically create a corrective task and alert managers the moment a fridge or freezer is logged out of safe range.

How accurate is the forecast, and when it says no

How the accuracy figure is measured, what moves it, and every reason a site can have no forecast.

Entering takings by hand or from a spreadsheet

Enter a day's takings, import a CSV of them, and what happens when an entry and the till disagree.

A person at a glance

Click a name on the rota, Payroll, Requests or Reports to see their hours, pay, holiday and anything worth knowing, without leaving the page.

Staff availability

Which days people have said they cannot work, how it shows on the rota, and recording it for somebody yourself.

Mapping Square locations to your sites

Pair each Square location with the Paddl site it feeds, and what happens to the locations you leave unmapped.

Connecting Zettle by PayPal

Create an API key in your Zettle account and paste it into Paddl, so takings and what sold arrive every half hour.

Recording tips and how they were shared

Enter a tip pot per period, share it over approved hours, and keep the record the law now asks for.

Exporting hours to payroll

The four formats, what is in the file, and what Paddl deliberately does not do.

Approving hours and timesheets

Payroll lists every shift in the dates you pick: what the flags mean, how to correct a time, and what approving covers.

Eligibility warnings on the rota

What each warning means, and why Paddl warns you rather than stopping you.

Publishing a rota, and what the notice counter means

What staff see when you publish, and why Paddl records how much notice each change gave.

Building your first rota

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

Recalls & Batch Traceability

Trace stock from supplier to use, and act quickly and provably when a supplier issues a recall.

Maintenance Reporting

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

Maintenance Jobs & Appointments

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

Managing Visitors

Log visitors quickly or send a self sign-in link, capture badge details, and keep an on-site record.

Managing Contractors

Set credential requirements, invite contractors, review their documents, and control access with events.

Managing Suppliers & Recalls

Keep supplier records and act on recalls fast using the batch detail captured at goods-in.

Confirming and cancelling Paddy actions

Ask Paddy always shows you what it is about to do and waits for you to confirm. Here is how that works and what gets recorded.

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.

Knowledge Hub and Ask Paddy

Build a searchable knowledge base, and use Ask Paddy to answer questions from it and to set work up for you.

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.

Closing a Site for a Period

Tell Paddl a location is shut between two dates so no tasks are created for those days, and clear any that already were.

Late and missed tasks

When a task becomes overdue, when it becomes missed, what "missed in the busiest hour" means, and how to resolve one.

Checking your hours

Where to find what you have worked this period and whether your manager has approved it.

Clocking in from a shift

Starting a shift from your rota, what the location check does, and what happens with no signal.

The App for Contractors

How contractors sign in, keep credentials current, sign documents, see their events, and track their hours.

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.

Team & Compliance Oversight (Manager)

See each staff member's compliance, drill into the detail, track visitors on site, and check section status.

Reviewing Records & Sign-Offs (Manager)

Review submitted records, chase sign-offs and clear handovers from manager mode, and find the same list as the Inbox in the admin panel.

Manager Mode on the Mobile App

Switch into manager mode for an overview of your team, compliance, sign-offs, and quick reporting.

Your Compliance & Profile in the App

See your own training, documents, certificates, and compliance score, and change your app settings.

Completing Tasks & Checklists on Mobile

Find your tasks, filter by day or status, work through the items, and catch up on anything missed.

Checking In to Your Location

Check in to your venue so the right tasks appear, switch location, and check out at the end of your shift.

Signing In, Face ID & Shared Tablets

Use Face ID or a fingerprint, stay signed in, and unlock a shared tablet with its device PIN instead of signing back in.

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.

Your Dashboard: Readiness and Requires attention

What Home shows when you sign in: how ready each site is for an inspection, the official food hygiene rating, and the four lists of what needs you.

Inviting and Managing Team Members

Invite staff, choose roles, organise people into groups, and understand what each role can do.

Setting Up Your Business Profile & Locations

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

Smart Document Uploads & AI Setup

Upload your existing paperwork and let Paddl read it to build your allergens, HACCP, knowledge base, and more.

Getting Started with Paddl

Set up your account, configure your business, invite your team, and get your first checks running.

Legal Guidance

Triage a tricky situation, link the report it relates to, see your insurance options, and export an evidence pack.

Delivery Notes

Turn a supplier's order confirmation or delivery note into a due delivery, with every product linked to your allergen chart.

Exporting & Printing Your Records

Where to find the export, download and print options across Paddl, including the per-chip export on every Records page, and which format each gives you.

The Inbox

What lands in the Inbox tab of the bell, who sees it, and how each item clears.

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.

Licensing Records

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

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.

Turning an EHO Report into an Action Plan

Upload the inspection report under Documents, let Paddy draft action points from it, and track each one to closure.

The Fire Log Book

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

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.

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.

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.

Recording Pest Control

Routine pest checks, sightings and contractor visits on the Pest control chip of the Records page, with visit reports under Documents.

Risk Assessments

Generate or write risk assessments, require staff sign-off, and keep them reviewed on schedule.

How Do I Review or Update My HACCP Plan?

Use Review with Paddy to check an existing HACCP plan against your current menu, allergens and chemicals, accept the changes you want, and record a review.

Location Monitoring: Noise, Capacity & Refusals

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

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.

Allergen Matrix

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

Generating an Audit Pack

Pull all your compliance documents into one downloadable ZIP, ready to hand to an EHO or inspector.

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.

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.

Logging Temperature Checks

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