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Kitchen Opening & Closing
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- Check the whole premises is clear of customers and staff before you start to lock down, including toilets and fitting rooms
- Cash up, secure the takings and lock the safe, then confirm tills are emptied and left open as your policy requires
- Switch off non-essential electricals: heaters, display units, kettles and anything that should not run overnight
- Check fire exits are clear and unlocked from the inside, and that nothing is blocking the escape routes
- Close and lock all windows, shutters, internal doors and the stockroom
- Set the intruder alarm and wait to confirm it arms cleanly with no faults showing
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Keyholder Lock-Up Checklist
Walks the keyholder through the same closing route every night so nothing electrical, open or unsecured gets left behind.
10 checksPDF + phoneReviewed for 2026Source: HM Government, "Fire safety risk assessment" guidance (Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005); standard retail security practice.
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10 things to check.
Everything that matters, nothing that does not. Here is the full list, exactly as it appears on the template.
- 1Check the whole premises is clear of customers and staff before you start to lock down, including toilets and fitting rooms
- 2Cash up, secure the takings and lock the safe, then confirm tills are emptied and left open as your policy requires
- 3Switch off non-essential electricals: heaters, display units, kettles and anything that should not run overnight
- 4Check fire exits are clear and unlocked from the inside, and that nothing is blocking the escape routes
- 5Close and lock all windows, shutters, internal doors and the stockroom
- 6Set the intruder alarm and wait to confirm it arms cleanly with no faults showing
- 7Lock all external doors and physically push or pull each one to confirm it is properly secured
- 8Confirm fridges, freezers and any essential equipment that must stay on are still running
- 9Check the lighting left on matches your policy (security lights on, the rest off)
- 10Sign and time the log, and make sure the keyholder and alarm-response contact details are current
Good to know
Fire exit doors must be openable from the inside without a key while anyone is on the premises; final exit doors should only be secured with a key once the building is confirmed empty, so the lock-up order matters.
Source: HM Government, "Fire safety risk assessment" guidance (Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005); standard retail security practice.
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