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Professional Kitchen Safety
Industrial kitchens and restaurants are high activity work environments. This nature requires that extra measures be taken to prevent workplace injuries in these dangerous environments.
Safety Tips for Industrial and Restaurant Kitchens
Some simple tips you can follow to encourage safety in professional kitchens include:
- Keep the floors clean: Wet or messy floors are some of the leading causes for trips, slips, and falls in professional kitchens. When necessary, treat the floors with a slip-resistant coating. Also, discourage employees from carrying large or heavy loads that obstruct their view. This will decrease the likelihood of tripping injuries.
- Encourage proper attire: Long sleeves help prevent burns and closed toe shoes with rubber soles help prevent slips and injuries caused from dropped objects and hot liquid spills. Proper equipment should also be used for a safe kitchen. This means level work surfaces, sharp blades for knives, heavy pots and pans to increase stability, and more.
- Properly train employees: Make sure any employee who is handling the knives, saws, or sharp equipment has adequate training to do so. Safety tips for the kitchen should be shared with all staff and management. Also, encouraging communication between employees can improve safety within a professional kitchen. Warnings such as “hot pan”, “behind you”, and “corner” can be used throughout the workday to prevent injuries and accidents.
- Follow proper housekeeping procedures: Housekeeping is one of the most important measures to take to encourage a safe work environment. By keeping the kitchen clean and organized, a majority of accidents can be avoided. This includes timely disposal of any broken or damaged equipment and the cleaning and proper storage of greasy rags and other commonly used items.
Contact Us
Injuries on the job can happen anywhere. Professional kitchens can be dangerous environments when safety measures are not taken. If you or someone you know has been in a kitchen workplace accident, you may be eligible for compensation under workers’ compensation. To learn more about restaurant kitchen safety and to discuss your experience, contact the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. today at 610-667-7511.