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 unrepaired 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
- School kitchen
- 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