South Africa • R638 Compliance

Stop guessing what an R638 inspector wants to see.

Free, SA-specific food safety checklist for restaurants, delis, butcheries, bakeries, and caterers. Built by operators who run an active FSMS every single day — not by consultants who just write about them.

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R638 of 2018 referenced 13-point daily cleaning 11 training modules CoA prep checklist Recall procedure
Why another checklist?

Because generic "food safety templates" won't pass a South African inspection.

Most free checklists online are American HACCP templates. The Certificate of Acceptability inspector at your front door cares about Regulation R638 of 2018 — specific sections, specific definitions, specific wording. This checklist is built around that, by an FSMS that's survived multiple inspections.

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Built from a live FSMS

Go Lucky runs its own Food Safety Management System in production — Certificate of Acceptability held, inspectors visited, complaints logged and resolved. This checklist is our working document, simplified for you.

2

SA-specific, not generic

Written around R638 Sections 3 through 13. References SANS 10049 where applicable. Uses Certificate of Acceptability language that inspectors actually use.

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Operator — not consultant

We're not a consultancy selling retainers. We're a Cape Town food business that built this for ourselves and now licenses our system to peers. Different incentive structure.

Operated — not theorised

The system this checklist is extracted from runs every single day.

Go Lucky Free Range has operated an active FSMS since 2023 — digital cleaning logs, training acknowledgements, ambient temperature logging, batch traceability with QR codes on every crate, Certificate of Acceptability on file, and a customer complaint handling procedure. We've been inspected. We've been audited. We've been recalled on. This is our working document.

R638
of 2018 referenced
3 yrs
FSMS in production
24/7
digital traceability
100%
batch-traced
What's in the PDF

11 sections. SA-regulation-aligned. Actionable.

Download it, tick what you already do, flag what you don't. Use it as your working gap analysis before your next CoA renewal.

Next step

Download the checklist. Hit a gap you can't close alone?

Go Lucky offers FSMS consulting — we'll implement the system we already run, for your business. Walk through your premises, document processes, train staff, set up digital logs. Our app handles the day-to-day.

R3,500
FSMS Starter Consult
Premises audit + gap report
R750/mo
Go Lucky FSMS App
Digital cleaning, training, temps, traceability
R9,500
Full CoA Prep Package
Audit + documentation + inspection accompaniment
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