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Causes And Prevention Of Hazards In The Food Preparation Area
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The
major area in hotels, restaurants, cafeteria and other food services
outlet involved in on the job injuries and all health is the kitchen.
Perhaps the most common hazards are cuts and bruises, ship and trips,
back pan, burns and scalds and electrocution and fire. These hazards are
constant threat to an effective operation and active kitchen staff.
Attempts would be made to discuss some of these hazards in broader
terms.
i. Cutz and Bruises: Cuts are injuries sustained
from skin contact with sharp edges such as knives, open tin cans and
broken pieces of glass items bruises are scratched from skin, contact
with rough edges. Injuries sustained may either be major or minor
depending on the degree of contact with the edge. Major injuries have
been known to cause deep lacerations into the skin minor injuries if not
well treated may result to an infection disease such as white flow from
cut on the base a finger.
ii. Slips and Trips: Slips are
falls from font contact with slippery floors or slipper objects such as
oil spill on the floor skin of potato peel on the floor, trips are falls
from obstruction with movement. An unclear gangway may cause a trip or
an object on the floor not notice by the victim. Injuries could be
either minor or major and may result in some other severe injuries such
as burns and cuts.
iii. Back Pain: These ill health
conditions are not new in food preparation area due to the manual
handling nature of kitchen operations. Employees are constantly drifting
or carry a bag of flour, fish, basket of tomato or some other heavy
kitchen equipment. This ill-health is a cumulative effect of poor manual
handling.
iv. Burns and Scalds: Burns are injuries from
skin contact with diet surface or object and dry heat. Scalds are mainly
sustained from skin contact with wet heat such as steam from cooking
food. Burns are both minor when just contact with the liquid is made to
save burns from deep contact such as hands dipping into oil or fire
burning skin. Scalds are equally dangerous especially where steamers of
different sizes are used. Steam inhalation through rare could be fatal
of immediate medicare is not sought.
v. Electrocution: The
misuse or unknown contact with naked electric cable can be an
unpleasant experience injuries may not occur in most cases but death is
inevitable if immediate help is not given.
vi. Fire: Fire
outbreaks could cause severe damages to both human and property.
Depending on the extent of contact may cause minor burns to even sever
first degree burns which could also cause death.
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