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Saskatchewan Restaurant Inspection Readiness Check
Check your Saskatchewan restaurant against what SHA inspectors look for. Eleven questions, an instant score out of 100, and the gaps to fix first.
Your inspection goes public within a day
In Saskatchewan, a routine inspection doesn't end when the inspector leaves. The report goes up on Inspection InSite, the province's public inspection website, generally within one working day. It stays there for three years unless the business changes owners. Each report names the facility, says what kind of inspection it was and lists the infractions found.
That changes how you think about being ready. A missing temperature log isn't only a conversation with the inspector. It becomes a line on a page that customers, landlords and anyone thinking of buying the business can read.
We built the Saskatchewan inspection readiness check so you can find those lines before an inspector writes them. It's eleven questions and takes a few minutes. At the end you get a score out of 100 with your biggest gaps listed first.
How inspections work here
Public health inspectors employed by the Saskatchewan Health Authority inspect restaurants across the province, aiming to visit each one at least once a year. Routine inspections are unannounced. Inspectors work from The Food Safety Regulations, and since the 2026 amendments every licensee must also comply with the Food Facility Standards published by the Ministry of Health.
The trained-person rule, and what changes in 2028
Section 26 is the part of the regulations operators ask about most. Today it requires the operator of a public eating establishment to make sure someone who has completed an approved food safety course is working there at all times when food is being prepared and served. The local authority can exempt an establishment in writing.
That doesn't mean everyone needs a certificate yet. It means the opening shift, the closing shift, Sunday morning and the night the manager calls in sick all need a trained person working.
On February 1, 2028, the rule gets much broader. The Food Safety Amendment Regulations, 2026 replace section 26 from that date. Operators will have to make sure that everyone who handles, processes, prepares, packages, sells or stores food has completed a food safety course approved by the minister, unless the local authority exempts the facility in writing. Not-for-profit and temporary event food facilities keep a version of the one-trained-person rule.
If you have a dozen people on staff and two certificates between them, that's a lot of course bookings. Spreading them over the next year is easier than cramming them into January 2028.
One power stays the same through the change. The local authority can require an operator or a food handler to take an approved course if it believes the facility is being run in a way that may endanger public health.
What the check asks
Two of the eleven questions are specific to Saskatchewan. The first is the trained-person rule as it stands today. The second is your licence. Section 10 requires a valid licence to be displayed in a conspicuous place where customers can easily see it. A licence is valid for one year from the date it's issued, or for a shorter period if the licence says so.
The other nine are habits inspectors look at in every province:
- Daily temperature checks, written down
- Cooling large batches fast enough
- Handwashing sinks stocked and used only for handwashing
- Staff reporting illness before a shift
- Sanitizer and dishwasher testing
- A cleaning schedule that people sign off
- Covered, labelled, dated storage, with raw meat below ready-to-eat food
- Allergen information staff can actually use
- Pest checks and pest control records
On temperatures, the regulations require potentially hazardous food that's stored or displayed before sale to be kept at 4°C or colder, or 60°C or hotter. You also need an accurate thermometer on site to check it.
Our Saskatchewan restaurant food safety checklist goes through the regulations and the Food Facility Standards in detail, including the other 2026 changes. If an inspection has already left you with infractions to clear, responding to food inspection violations covers the follow-up.
How ready is your kitchen? Score it against Saskatchewan's rules in about three minutes. Take the free check →
Your score, and the full report
When you finish, you see your score and the gaps that cost you the most, each with a line on why an inspector cares about it. Questions that matter more for food safety carry more weight, so a weak answer on temperatures moves the score more than a licence hung in the wrong place.
Enter your email and we'll send the full report. It covers every gap, gives you a fix plan for each one, and links to printable checklists for the work. You can also open those checklists in a free TenorOps account.
The score is your own read on your kitchen, not an inspection result, and it doesn't appear anywhere public. Only the reports on Inspection InSite do that.
Start the Saskatchewan check, or find the check for every other province and territory from the Canada inspection readiness check.