Case studies relevant to 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

Manual handling

• Ergonomic case study of university
• Storing heavy loads at waist height

Dermatitis

• Good practice dermatitis control