If you own a commercial restaurant, you know how challenging it can be to keep up to food, health and fire safety standards. Regular commercial fire sprinkler inspections in NJ, food safety inspections and health inspections can help keep you on track and ensure both your employees and customers are safe. Here are some tips on how to keep your restaurant kitchen as safe as possible:
Sanitation
It’s extremely important that the kitchen work and prep area is as clean as possible. Make sure all cooking grills are cleaned regularly, and that there are plenty of cleaning agents for your employees to wash their hands (and wear gloves) while handling food. Cloths and towels should be washed regularly and, ideally, used only once. Cleanliness is the main goal here.
Food training
Make sure your employees are well trained in how to handle food and are aware of cross-contamination issues, particularly when dealing with raw meat. There are several safe food handling courses offered and all of your kitchen employees should be properly trained. This is for everyone’s safety.
Traffic plan
When you have proper flow through your kitchen, you’ll have less accidents and less injuries. Those preparing food should each have their own station and be able to pass it to the servers with as little trouble as possible. No one should be bumping into each other; this is an open invitation for dangerous accidents.
Fire Safety training
Your staff needs to know what to do in the event of an emergency such as a grease fire. Make sure you have fire extinguishers, sprinklers and other fire prevention tools at the ready. Fire safety training will ensure your staff will know exactly what to do in the event of an emergency.
Commercial fire sprinkler inspections in NJ can advise you on what you need to do in order to have a safe restaurant kitchen so you can minimize your risk of a deadly fire. For more information Newark Professional Fire Protection Corp.
