Health and Safety in

Hospitality

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Common Health and Safety risk areas include:

Food Hygiene and Safety
Slips, Trips and Falls
Cuts
Contact With Hot Surfaces and Harmful Substances
Musculoskeletal Disorders
Dermatitis

Long hours and fast paced working environments are typical of the challenges faced by businesses in the hospitality sector. Further complexity has now been added by the risks to health and safety posed by COVID-19. Many in the industry believe that “normal” operations won’t resume until a vaccine is developed. We can help you emerge into the new normal with a Health and Safety management plan tailored for your business.

The law requires that visitors and employees are safe whilst on your premises. The approach we take depends on you and your circumstances. Whether you are a new start-up business looking for guidance and support in setting up the systems or a well-established organisation needing support to move on to the next step we are well positioned to provide a professional and quick response. Typically, our clients engage us on a consultancy basis, so our thorough approach usually follows this pattern:

  1. Audit of existing systems, arrangements and policies with reference to:

    • Health and Safety at Work Act

    • Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) compliance

    • Allergen Management

    • Ventilation and Carbon Monoxide

    • Coronavirus adjustments - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and COVID-19

  2. Production of a Gap Analysis – what’s good and what needs looking at

  3. Amend/write Policies – ensuring compliance

  4. Amend/write Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work – food handling identify risks and what to do about them

  5. Amend/write Control documents

  6. Training planning

  7. Application of external standards

  8. Auditing

  9. On-going support and training

There are some specific laws that require compliance depending on the nature of your services and our advisors at John Green Health and Safety can help you navigate them efficiently and effectively, keeping your customers, employees and members of the public safe.