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Digital Record Keeping for Restaurants – Employee Vaccination History May Be Required

In Canada, more and more companies and local governments are implementing required vaccination status for their employees. As an employer, it is your duty to make sure this data is kept safe and away from prying eyes. If employee vaccination history were to be required for your restaurant, would you be ready?

August 19, 2021

Already its required in most jurisdictions that an employee keep track of health and safety minutes, employee training and certifications (think FoodSafe and Serving It Right in British Columbia). Most of the time these documents might just be pilling up in a stack of papers in the back office of a restaurant. Soon you may have to add employee vaccination status to the mix. Before they get accidentally thrown out, spilled coffee all over them, or worse, stolen. It might be time to look at storing these records digitally, online, in a more secure and permanent home.

BarSight Restaurant Systems provides a 100% made in Canada solution that caters to the fast paced hospitality industry. With servers and data centers located in Victoria BC, sensitive employee information is kept safe and on Canadian soil.

Employee Certification and Vaccination Status

If a health inspector walks into your restaurant, you may have to provide them with a full staff list, including employee names, safe food handling certificate numbers, and a responsible liquor service certificate numbers for those on shift that handle the booze. You may also be required to have a first aid attendant on duty, in which case you'll need to have their certificate number and expiry date.

Adding vaccination status to this list of soon to be required employee data is a simple task that can be completed with a couple clicks inside BarSight and getting your staff to send you a private message within the system to confirm their vaccination status.

Employee Signed Documents

Since your now thinking about storing your employee certifications and important numbers online, what else could you be doing to clean up your desk? Well your local health authority may require you to keep workplace safety and orientation documents,equipment training, and other signed documentsfrom your employees. Scanning these documents, and uploading them to the employees profile on BarSight can ensure you'll be able to quickly find them when needed.

Safety Meetings and Equipment Logs

Your restaurant should also be keeping track of employee safety concerns, including what steps were taken to resolve the issues. The minutes from your joint health and safety committee should be easily accessible and able to be reviewed at each meeting. Even keeping an accurate service and repair history of your restaurants' equipment can be required to stay compliant with your health authority. Services like BarSight provide an easy way to create forms and reports to be added to an online manager log book. These forms are searchable and easily printed off for review.

Consider This a Check-Up

You may already have this all implemented in other ways if your restaurant has been around for a while, or you've been thinking about ways to improve your document and data storage methods. With the possibility of storing employee vaccination records around the corner, it should be time to make sure you're keeping this sensitive information safe and not out in the open. It's always better to be proactive, instead of reactive, when it comes to your employees privacy.

BarSight Restaurant Systemsprovidesrestaurants, breweries, and others in the hospitality industry with simple to use employee management, scheduling, andonlinetraining.Combined with expense and payroll reports, manager log books, BarSight is a complete all in one package.