Many small to medium-sized Local Public Health Departments, and even some larger ones, continue to use paper forms to collect and store Food Safety inspection information. The rational for maintaining this approach is that the cost of buying PCs and purchasing or developing a computer system exceeds their budgets, which are constantly being reduced.

However, they often overlook the costs of purchasing, filing and retrieving paper forms and the Inspector productivity improvements available through automating. If you compare the real costs associated with the paper approach against the costs of purchasing Tablets and portable printers, you’ll find that…

YOU CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO AUTOMATE!

In order to help you determine if automation can be cost justified in your Health Department, we have created a financial model, which has been vetted by a number of Managers from both large and small Health Departments. The model allows you to enter the number of inspections, which calculates an estimated savings for your Health Department over a three year period.

If you are interested in seeing the savings available to your Health Department, please enter the number of inspections conducted per year and then press .