Home · Plan & organise · Get ready for an inspection without the panic
Get ready for an inspection without the panic
A food hygiene inspection, a licensing visit or a fire safety check is due, or could happen any day. Get a preparation checklist from the official guidance, a records check and a calm plan for the day.
The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me prepare for an inspection. My business: [what you do] Inspection type: [food hygiene, licensing, fire safety] Records I keep: [list] Last result and what went wrong: [details] First ask me up to 4 short questions. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. Look up the official guidance for this inspection (e.g. the Food Standards Agency's food hygiene rating pages). Name it and list what inspectors check. 2. A preparation checklist, with records first. 3. A walk-round plan to do with my team the week before. 4. What to have ready and how to behave on the day. 5. How to respond to the result, including asking for a re-visit if that's possible. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or figures. UK English. For the official guidance for this type of inspection, use web search and name the page you used. If it doesn't search on its own, open View all tools and choose Search. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. what you do: a short note you already have. food hygiene, licensing, fire safety: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
The prompt · Copilot
Help me prepare for an inspection. My business: [what you do] Inspection type: [food hygiene, licensing, fire safety] Records I keep: [list] Last result and what went wrong: [details] First ask me up to 4 short questions. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. Look up the official guidance for this inspection (e.g. the Food Standards Agency's food hygiene rating pages). Name it and list what inspectors check. 2. A preparation checklist, with records first. 3. A walk-round plan to do with my team the week before. 4. What to have ready and how to behave on the day. 5. How to respond to the result, including asking for a re-visit if that's possible. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or figures. UK English. For the official guidance for this type of inspection, switch to Search mode so the answer comes with a citation. Stay in this Copilot chat. Leave plugins off, and do not open a file from OneDrive.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. what you do: a short note you already have. food hygiene, licensing, fire safety: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
You describe your business and the kind of inspection.
The assistant asks what records you keep and what went wrong last time.
You get a checklist from the official guidance, a records gap list, a walk-round plan and what to say on the day.
What happens
Use Copilot to get ready for an inspection without the panic
A food hygiene inspection, a licensing visit or a fire safety check is due, or could happen any day. Get a preparation checklist from the official guidance, a records check and a calm plan for the day.
Tools
Paste the prompt, fill the blanks, copy the draft.
- Microsoft Copilot — required. Drafts from the text you paste. Nothing is sent.
The prompt is on this page. A free account saves it.
Create a free account