- A shared tablet with one login records that a reading was taken, not who took it, which weakens every record on it.
- Sending the log to a person rather than a device restores attribution without issuing accounts.
- Out-of-range readings can be caught on entry and escalated immediately rather than found at the weekly review.
If eleven people use one login, no reading is attributable to a person. The log still exists, but it cannot answer who, which is the question that matters after a temperature excursion.
Why shared devices happen
Because per-person accounts were too expensive or too much administration, so the site bought one tablet and mounted it by the door. It is a rational response to seat pricing, and it quietly undermines the record.
Send the check to the person instead
If each person signs in once on the phone they already carry, attribution comes back for free. The record shows which member of staff took the reading, at what time, without anyone installing an app or remembering a password.
- Readings entered against a named person, not a device.
- Timestamp from the moment of entry rather than the end-of-day write-up.
- Limits checked on entry, so an out-of-range value is flagged while the person is still standing there.
- A breach can require a photo and a corrective action before it can be submitted.
- Missed logs escalate automatically instead of being noticed at the weekly review.
The excursion is the moment it pays
When a freezer drifts, the questions are when it started, who saw it, what they did and how fast. A log with per-reading attribution and timestamps answers all four. A shared-device log answers the first and stops.
Cost, since that is what caused the shared tablet
Users are unlimited on every RakuOps plan, so putting the log on twenty personal phones costs the same as putting it on one tablet. The reason to share a device disappears.