The Commercial Catering Inspection Record is the commercial-kitchen version of the CP12. It is your evidence that a catering gas installation was inspected and left safe: the appliances, the gas supply and interlock, the ventilation and extract system, and the kitchen air quality, all to IGEM/UP/19.
When to use this one
- Inspecting the gas installation in a commercial kitchen (restaurant, pub, canteen, takeaway).
- Checking the safety interlock between the gas and the ventilation.
- Recording the kitchen air quality (CO and CO2) on a routine inspection.
For a domestic landlord inspection, use the CP12 instead. For putting a single appliance in or taking it out, use the Installation / Commissioning / Decommissioning Record. They all sit side by side, so pick whichever matches the job.
Start the record
You can start one two ways:
- From the job. Open the job from Jobs and use the Gas Certificates card. Starting it here links the client, the property and the engineer for you.
- From the Gas Certs page. Go to Gas Certs, tap New certificate, and pick Commercial Catering Inspection Record.
Fill it in
Work down the form on site:
- Inspection details. Set the inspection date and the engineer. The engineer's and the workspace's Gas Safe numbers are checked here, since every gas record carries them.
- Client and site. Link the client and the catering site, and choose who the record is issued to: the client, or a separate responsible person or agent. Add a site name if the kitchen has one.
- Appliances. Add every catering appliance, with the safety, ventilation, flue flow and spillage checks and an overall result. Commercial kitchens often run several, so add as many as you need.
- Gas installation, ECV and interlock. Work through the emergency control valve, the gas emergency notice, the gas proving and interlock system, the pipework and the tightness test. When you mark the ECV or the gas proving system as present, Mucka opens up the follow-up checks for them, so you only answer what applies.
- Catering-area pipework. The IGEM/UP/19 pipework checks: materials, labelling, support, sleeves, purge and test points, and bonding.
- Ventilation and extract. The DW/172 checks: canopy, filtration, mechanical exhaust and supply, the ventilation interlock and natural ventilation. The interlock and the other parent checks open their follow-ups when you mark them present.
- Air quality. Take three CO2 readings using the sampling method. Mucka works out the average for you, so there is no arithmetic to get wrong. Record the max CO and max CO2 if you have them, your call on the result, and the instrument used. The DW/172 action levels are a guide only, you make the call.
- Risk assessment. Record whether a risk assessment was applied, and note the outcome.
- Additional works. Add any remedial works the kitchen needs.
- Declaration. Record the overall result, add any comments, set the next inspection date, and sign on screen. The responsible person can sign for receipt too, but they do not have to (kitchens are often inspected out of hours).
If an appliance comes up unsafe, Mucka offers to draft a Gas Warning Notice with the unsafe appliances already carried across, so you do not key it twice.
Everything saves as you go, so you can put your phone down mid job and pick up where you left off, even on a different device.
Approve and send
Tap Approve when it is done. Mucka shows you the outcome and asks you to confirm. Approving locks the record as a legal document and generates the PDF. After that it cannot be edited, only corrected.
Then tap Send. Mucka pre-fills the recipient and attaches the PDF. Check the message, then send.
Need to fix an approved record?
You cannot edit a locked record, but you can create a correction. That copies it into a fresh draft with a new serial number; once you approve the correction, the original is marked superseded and its PDF carries a "superseded" watermark. The original is never deleted.
Ask Mucka
You can ask Mucka to get one started for you:
"Start a commercial catering inspection for the kitchen at The Old Bell."
Mucka opens the draft and links it up, but it never approves or sends a record on its own. Filling in the checks, approving and sending are always your call.