NSF Food, Health and Safety Plus

Our audits provide timely assessments of your current food safety standards, supporting your commitment to protecting your customers, your staff and meeting regulations. NSF Food, Health and Safety Plus is designed for businesses in hospitality, food service and retail who are striving for consistent standards across multiple locations and need better visibility and performance comparison.

You can combine our food safety audits with optional upgrades from a range of predefined modules—such as health and safety, fire safety, pest control, allergen management and guest experience reviews—while benefiting from actionable insights and the ability to review performance to see where you need to focus most. Whether you're already using our Food Safety Essentials service or looking to improve your current safety programme, NSF Food, Health and Safety Plus gives you more options and improved visibility.

On the date we visit, we audit key areas of your operations:

• Food safety audit: We assess critical practices such as hygiene, temperature control, safe food storage, and contamination prevention.
• Cleanliness inspection: We inspect the cleanliness of all areas, including dining spaces, restrooms, kitchen equipment, and back-of-house operations.
• Repair and maintenance checks: We check the condition of your premises and equipment to ensure everything is well-maintained and functioning properly.
• Food safety documentation: We verify that all required food safety records and documentation are accurate, complete, and up to date.

This comprehensive approach helps identify risks, ensures regulatory compliance, and with the insights we provide, supports your continuous improvement in food safety standards.

Ideal for enhancing your NSF Food Safety audit programme in understanding or compliance, we offer additional modules:

• NSF Health and Safety review.
• NSF Pest Contractor review.
• NSF Fire Safety review.
• NSF Allergen review.
• NSF Guest Experience review.

NSF Connect – your digital food safety audit platform – built by experts, trusted by industry

NSF Connect is a cloud-based audit portal developed from decades of hands-on NSF food safety expertise. Purpose-built by food industry experts, it helps businesses meet regulatory requirements, manage and compare audit data, and drive compliance performance – keeping you informed, accountable and in control.

Core features to help drive effective food safety management

• Performance analytics dashboard: Visualize outlet performance, spot emerging risks, and make data-informed decisions with confidence.
• Online audit reports: Instantly access audit outcomes, benchmark performance across multiple locations, and track compliance trends over time.
• Corrective action management: Ensure issue resolution, accountability, and support continuous improvement.
• Exportable compliance reports: Simplify documentation and streamline compliance with easy-to-use Excel reports.
• Audit appeals workflow: Promote transparency and trust by managing audit disputes directly within the portal.
• Executive reporting suite: Empower leadership teams with summary dashboards, high-level summaries and performance insights.

Flexible account support – when you need it

Book extra support as an additional upgrade when you need more expertise. We can take a closer look at your audit results, explore trends and advise where you may need to focus.

For any sites based in the UK, our service also includes an indicative Food Hygiene Rating aligned with Food Standards Agency Brand Standards.

To increase customer visibility, you can upgrade your service to include the NSF Food Health and Safety Plus badge—ready to display at each specific location which has been audited by NSF and successfully meets the requirements of the audit.

• Get in touch: Contact us to express your interest in the programme.
• We’ll contact you: We'll arrange a call convenient to you, to understand your exact requirements, and we’re happy to present all the details to your internal stakeholders.
• Quote and confirmation: Our quotation outlines all the details. Upon confirmation and receipt of advance payment, we’ll share the audit scope, programme and schedule.
• On-site audits: Our auditors conduct detailed audits using the NSF Food Safety Checklist, along with your additional selected modules from our predefined set of focus areas.
• Report: After the audit, you’ll receive a report with our findings and recommendations.
• NSF Connect: Access your audit data online. Make comparisons and monitor corrective actions.
• Optional upgrade: NSF Food, Health and Safety badge*: As an optional upgrade, when one of your locations has been audited by us and successfully meets the audit requirements, you can also choose to receive your NSF Food, Health and Safety Plus badge for display at that site.  This indicates your commitment to best practice and offers your customers peace of mind.

We help identify and give you the know-how to correct potential food, and health and safety risks, reducing the chance of foodborne illness and unsafe practices. Our audits are designed not only to assess but also to educate—ensuring your team understands what to do, why it matters, and how to improve.

With decades of global experience in food safety auditing and compliance, we work with businesses of all sizes—from single-site operators to global brands. Our skilled auditors are trained to support your teams during audits, offering real-time insights and practical guidance.

• Results that matter: Clients often see a measurable improvement in food safety performance within just a few months of working with us.
• Clear benchmarking for continuous improvement:
  With NSF, you don’t just receive an audit—you gain a benchmark. Our scoring methods and trend analysis help you understand how your sites stack up against industry standards, regulatory expectations, and your own internal performance targets.
• Data-driven improvements: Many clients report seeing a reduction in critical food safety issues after consistent NSF auditing and coaching.
• Tailored recommendations: We don’t just point out what’s wrong—we offer clear, actionable steps you can take to fix it.
• Consistent performance: Our auditing is based on standardized, consistent performance. This gives you reliable data you can trust across sites, regions, and time.
• Global expertise, local insight: Our auditors combine deep knowledge of international food safety standards with a clear understanding of local regulations and cultural practices.
• Flexibility: Optional modules in health and safety, fire safety, pest control, allergen management, and customer experience let you create a compliance solution that fits your business.
• Support beyond the audit: We also offer food safety training, gap assessments, and follow-up visits to help you build a positive long-term food safety culture.

With food safety audits and value-added services, we’re here to help businesses like yours not just meet standards—but exceed them.

^*The NSF Food, Health and Safety Plus badge means the location has been audited by an NSF Auditor, on a specific date and time and successfully met the audit requirements of the NSF Food, Health and Safety Plus audit.