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Valmonellas restaurant case study.
In any workplace there are always specific duty of care requirements that are to be followed by the employer and employees of the workplace. Duty of care is briefly a legal obligation, which the employer and employees adhere to when performing acts in the workplace which may be harmful to others. In this case the duty of care requirements required to be followed by the employer and employees are,
Valmonellas restaurant have the responsibility to serve safe food and drinks that are okay for consumption by their customers.
Also to hire and properly train employees, and make sure that they are aware of any unsafe conditions.
To make sure that all employees and the employer know of the health and safety requirements required in the workplace and that everyone working in the establishment knows how to operate everything safely. All this is to insure safety within the workplace.
2.Valmonellas restaurant breached several hygiene practices during the preparation for the function. No care was taken to ensure all food preparation and dining prep were completely safe to be used and consumed by the costumers during the function. For example employees were very sick during preparation and were potentially contaminating everything from their constant sneezing and coughing and failure to wash hands when needed. Though this is a personal hygiene issue the duty of care that was required by employer (which was to send sick employees home), was not met. Another major hygiene issue that was breached during preparation was really a careless mistake made by the chef, leaving out bulk quantity of lasagna to defrost for the function on the kitchen bench at what he thought was a safe temperature as it was winter and he assumed it was cold enough but if the temperature was between 5 and 60 degrees Celsius it would be the ideal temperature for bacteria to grow and this is what most likely happened as the chances are rather high
In any workplace there are always specific duty of care requirements that are to be followed by the employer and employees of the workplace. Duty of care is briefly a legal obligation, which the employer and employees adhere to when performing acts in the workplace which may be harmful to others. In this case the duty of care requirements required to be followed by the employer and employees are,
Valmonellas restaurant have the responsibility to serve safe food and drinks that are okay for consumption by their customers.
Also to hire and properly train employees, and make sure that they are aware of any unsafe conditions.
To make sure that all employees and the employer know of the health and safety requirements required in the workplace and that everyone working in the establishment knows how to operate everything safely. All this is to insure safety within the workplace.
2.Valmonellas restaurant breached several hygiene practices during the preparation for the function. No care was taken to ensure all food preparation and dining prep were completely safe to be used and consumed by the costumers during the function. For example employees were very sick during preparation and were potentially contaminating everything from their constant sneezing and coughing and failure to wash hands when needed. Though this is a personal hygiene issue the duty of care that was required by employer (which was to send sick employees home), was not met. Another major hygiene issue that was breached during preparation was really a careless mistake made by the chef, leaving out bulk quantity of lasagna to defrost for the function on the kitchen bench at what he thought was a safe temperature as it was winter and he assumed it was cold enough but if the temperature was between 5 and 60 degrees Celsius it would be the ideal temperature for bacteria to grow and this is what most likely happened as the chances are rather high