HSE case studies relevant to the hospitality industry
Kitchen related accidents
- Council reduces slip accidents amongst catering staff
- Restaurant trips up after ignoring housekeeping advice
- Chef slips and suffers severe arm burns from hot oil
- Risk of slips reduced in school canteen
- Supermarket fined after worker slipped in hot oil
- Pub-restaurant chain’s choice of kitchen floor surface
- Holed walkway went un-repaired for months before injuring a health service worker
- Fractured skull from a “wholly preventable” catering slip
- Fast food restaurant owners ponder “Which are the right slip prevention options for us?”
- Fast food employee flash fries her arm in 360°F oil following slip
- Serious burn injuries lead to serious fine for fast food restaurant
Housekeeping and cleaning regimes
- Trip risk warnings ignored!
- Wet mopping can increase the risk of slipping
- New floor required a different cleaning regime - but did anyone tell the cleaners?
Specification of appropriate flooring
- Fractured skull from a “wholly preventable” catering slip
- Pub-restaurant chain's choice of kitchen floor surface
- Poor application of anti slip flooring causes a string of slipping accidents
- Fast food restaurant owners ponder options
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