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Prove It

Prove It is SafetyBrik's live food safety proving log. It sits at /safety/prove-it and captures the temperature checks, calibration tests and chilling records you would otherwise scribble onto an SFBB diary page.

What Prove It is for​

The Safer Food Better Business pack asks you to prove that core safety controls are happening - that food is being cooked to a safe core temperature, hot-held above 63°C, chilled down quickly enough, and that your probe thermometer is actually accurate. Prove It is the digital version of those proving records.

When an EHO arrives, you can hand over your device and walk them through the log: every cooking check, every chilling-down readings sequence, every probe calibration, with timestamps and pass/fail outcomes. No printed folder, no missing pages.

Recording categories​

Prove It supports the categories the SFBB pack uses:

  • Cooking - core temperature check after cooking
  • Reheating - core temperature on a reheat
  • Hot holding - hot-held food sampled during service
  • Chilling down - a sequence of readings as a hot product cools
  • Chilled storage - fridge or display readings
  • Freezing - freezer or blast-chilled readings
  • Probe calibration - ice-water and boiling-water test for your probe

Each category has its own safe thresholds baked in, so the form auto-calculates pass or fail as you type the readings.

Summary cards​

At the top of the page three cards give you the at-a-glance picture for the selected location:

  • Last calibration - when your probe was last calibrated and whether it is overdue. Green if up to date, amber if approaching due, red if overdue or never done.
  • Records this month - the total number of proving records logged this calendar month, broken down by category.
  • Methods overdue - safe methods that are due to be re-proved (linked through to your safe methods catalogue).

Adding a new record​

Click New Record and the dialog adapts to the category you pick.

  • For single-temperature categories (cooking, reheating, hot holding, chilled storage, freezing) you enter one Temperature in °C.
  • For Chilling down you add a sequence of readings, each with a temperature and a time, so you can show the curve from hot to cold.
  • For Probe calibration you enter an ice-water reading and a boiling-water reading. SafetyBrik checks them against the thresholds (typically ±1°C around 0°C and 100°C) and gives you a pass or fail.

Other useful fields:

  • Description - a free-text note ("checked chicken breast core after cooking")
  • Safe Method (optional) - link the record to one of your Safe Methods to mark that method as proved
  • Photo (optional) - take or upload a photo as evidence
  • Location - if you run multiple sites, pick which one this record belongs to

A green "Pass - within safe thresholds" or red "Fail - outside safe thresholds" banner appears as soon as you have entered enough information for SafetyBrik to evaluate the readings.

Filtering the log​

The log itself shows every record in reverse chronological order. Filters at the top let you slice by:

  • Category - cooking, chilling, calibration, etc.
  • From / To - a date range
  • Result - all, passed, or failed

Each row shows the category, description, temperature, pass/fail, who recorded it, the location, and the photo thumbnail if one was attached. Chilling down rows expand to show every reading in the sequence.

Why this replaces the printed pack​

The printed SFBB diary asks you to write the same things by hand - dates, temperatures, who did the check, whether it passed. Prove It captures all of it digitally with three advantages:

  • Auto pass/fail - thresholds are applied as you type, so you cannot accidentally log an unsafe reading without seeing the warning
  • Searchable - filter by date or category in seconds rather than thumbing through paper
  • Photo evidence - attach a probe reading photo straight from the camera

It also feeds into Reports and the EHO Report Pack PDF, so you never have to compile this information manually.

tip

Prove It is the snapshot in time view - what is happening right now and this month. For trends over time and the printable EHO pack, head to Reports.