Checks that hold up at −25°C — and at audit.
Food and drink operations live under two regimes at once: safety law and hygiene audit culture. Asset360 gives your trucks the same standard of evidence your BRCGS paperwork already has.
What goes wrong in food & drink
Cold stores are hostile to paper
Paper and pens fail at −25°C; gloved hands can't fill in forms. So cold-store checks get done from the doorway, or from memory, or not at all.
Audit culture stops at the warehouse door
Sites that can produce every CCP record in seconds often can't produce last Tuesday's forklift checks. Retailer auditors have started noticing.
Washdown areas corrode trucks
Daily washdowns accelerate corrosion on forks, chains and electrics. Deterioration is gradual — exactly what daily advisory tracking is for.
Asset360 on the ground
The −25°C cold store check
The situation
Cold-store reach trucks get a 'doorway glance' because nobody can write on paper in there, and battery performance in the cold goes unrecorded.
With Asset360
A 60-second phone check works with the truck at the airlock — large tap targets, no writing. Battery condition is logged daily, so cold-degraded batteries show up as a trend, not a mid-shift failure.
The retailer audit that asks about forklifts
The situation
A major retailer's auditor extends scope to workplace transport. The site's food safety records are immaculate; the forklift book is missing March.
With Asset360
The HSE-ready export covers every check, defect and thorough-examination date, generated in one click. Workplace transport evidence finally matches the standard of the food safety file.
Catching washdown corrosion early
The situation
Fork heels and mast chains corrode gradually in a washdown environment. By the time it's visible from the seat, it's a thorough-examination failure.
With Asset360
Daily checks log advisories with photos before items become failures. The truck's record shows the deterioration curve, so maintenance replaces chains on schedule instead of after a lockout.
Food & drink: common questions
Do BRCGS or retailer auditors accept digital records?
Digital records are standard across food safety systems, and workplace transport evidence is no different. Asset360's records are time-stamped, attributed and exportable — the properties auditors look for in any record system.
Can operators use it with gloves in a cold store?
The check flow is built for big tap targets and pass/fail decisions — no typing required on a standard check. Most operators run it with the phone in a glove-friendly case at the cold store airlock.
How does it handle battery care on electric fleets?
Electric trucks get battery-specific check items daily. Repeated advisories on the same battery surface as a pattern on the truck's record, so charging and replacement decisions are based on data.
General guidance, not legal advice. See our plain-English guides to PUWER, LOLER and the daily forklift check.
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