Every obligation,
mapped to evidence.
The Food Safety Act 1990 expects a documented due-diligence record. The Health and Social Care Act 2008 expects evidence of safe care and safe premises. COSHH expects a chemical risk assessment for every application. GreenTech maps each obligation to a specific output.
The s.21 defence.
Section 21 of the Food Safety Act 1990 lets a Food Business Operator avoid conviction for a food-safety offence if they can demonstrate they took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to prevent it. Pest control evidence — the logbook, the treatment records, the COSHH paperwork — is the most-cited form of due-diligence evidence in pest-related FSA proceedings.
An FBO without a documented pest control programme cannot invoke the s.21 defence. An FBO with quarterly paper visits has four data points in twelve months and 353 unmonitored days. A GreenTech FBO has 8,760+ continuous readings per sensor per year and a SHA-256-hashed treatment record for every dispatch.
CQC Regulation 12. And 15.
Regulation 12 (safe care and treatment) requires the registered provider to "do all that is reasonably practicable" to mitigate risks to the health and safety of service users. Pest sightings — even reported, not directly observed — are routinely cited under Regulation 12.
Regulation 15 (premises and equipment) requires the premises and equipment to be "clean, secure, suitable for the purpose for which they are being used, properly used, properly maintained and appropriately located." Pest control evidence is part of the premises-suitability picture.
A Regulation 12 finding triggers a formal action plan, mandatory re-inspection, and public reporting on the CQC website. The cascade — from finding to occupancy impact — runs in weeks. GreenTech's CQC pack is built specifically to meet the evidence formats CQC inspectors look for, and is exportable in one click.
The hazard class, eliminated.
COSHH requires a risk assessment for every chemical applied in a workplace. Substance, hazardous properties, GHS classification, exposure routes, control measures, emergency response, health surveillance — per active, per application. For most pest control operators, COSHH paperwork is the single largest documentation burden of the contract.
Both GreenTech actives — InsectoSec DE and PelGar Sumilarv 0.5G — carry zero COSHH classification at exposure level. There is no chemical hazard to assess. The risk class is not managed; it is eliminated. Operators retain their general workplace COSHH obligations, but the per-application file disappears for the pest-control line.
Authorised, actually.
Post-Brexit, every biocidal active substance and product sold or used commercially in Great Britain holds a Great Britain Biocidal Products Regulation (GB BPR) authorisation. The process is rigorous: two to five years per substance, costs exceeding £100,000 per active.
Both InsectoSec DE and PelGar Sumilarv 0.5G hold full GB BPR authorisation — DE under Product Type 18, Sumilarv under the relevant invertebrate-control type. GreenTech does not deploy any active that is "expected to receive" or "pending" authorisation. The product list is unambiguously legal in Great Britain on the day of the survey.
BPCA-accredited. RSPH-qualified.
The British Pest Control Association is the de facto industry accreditation body. BPCA membership is a condition of supplier qualification on every major UK FM framework. GreenTech holds BPCA membership at the operator level and dispatches only BPCA-accredited or RSPH Level 2-qualified technicians.
Senior technicians and surveyors hold RSPH Level 3 or the BPCA Advanced Certificate. Continuing professional development is mandated and tracked within GreenTech OS.
The compliance questions.
Six things FM directors, registered managers, and head chefs ask before signing.
Does GreenTech replace my existing pest control contract?
Yes. GreenTech is a complete commercial pest control service — sensors, dispatch, treatment, and compliance pack — provided under a single Master Services Agreement. Existing contracts are typically terminated at renewal or by mutual exit; we co-ordinate the audit-trail handover so your evidence record is continuous.
Where you're under a longer notice period with an incumbent, we can run a parallel monitoring overlay until termination — the data accrues from day one, even if treatment dispatch waits.
How does GreenTech support an FSA inspection?
The platform produces a HACCP-aligned compliance pack on demand, including CCP records, lot- and batch-traceable treatment data, environmental-monitoring evidence, and chain-of-custody timestamps. The pack is one click from the dashboard and is structured as inspectors expect to receive it.
For Helix sites specifically, the pack maps directly onto the FSA Food Hygiene Rating System scoring framework — there are no surprises in the inspection conversation.
What if an EHO asks for the audit trail?
Every reading and every treatment is timestamped, GPS-stamped where applicable, and SHA-256 hashed into an append-only chain. Auditors can request the underlying data behind any number in the pack and the platform will return the originating reading and its hash.
Is the SHA-256 chain of custody admissible?
The chain is structured to support the admissibility tests in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Civil Evidence Act 1995. We hold a legal opinion on admissibility from independent counsel and can share it under NDA at the contract stage.
Is the CQC pack inspector-ready?
Yes. The CQC pack compiles Regulation 12 (safe care and treatment) and Regulation 15 (premises and equipment) evidence directly from monitoring data and treatment records. It is generated in the format CQC inspectors typically request and is exported as a single PDF plus underlying CSV evidence files.
Registered Managers can preview the export at any time, not only when an inspection is imminent.
Who owns the data?
You do. The treatment record and all underlying readings remain your data under the MSA. We retain a licence to store, process, and produce derived compliance documents on your behalf for as long as the contract is active. On termination, all data can be exported in a portable format within fourteen days.
Compliance is evidence. Not paperwork.
Book a 30-minute site audit. We'll walk your estate, identify the regulatory gaps in your current programme, and return a sensor plan within five working days.