Kitchen equipment safety is important to prevent injuries from hazards like sharp edges, heat, flames, oils, and acids in a fast-paced work environment. Workers must follow safety procedures, maintain hazard awareness, cooperate with each other, and properly use and maintain equipment. General safety tips include following instructions, creating safe work conditions, understanding hazards, wearing personal protective equipment correctly, avoiding distractions, not using broken or faulty equipment, removing jewelry near machinery, getting training, unplugging appliances while cleaning, and reporting any incidents.

1. Equipment Safety

2. Equipment Safety
A busy kitchen can be a dangerous place indeed, with
many hazards,
• including sharp edges,
• heat and open flames,
• oils and acids,
• and a fast paced working environment.
Therefore, you must maintain a high degree of hazard
awareness, adherence to safety procedures,
cooperation and communication with your fellow
workers in order to prevent injuries.

3. General Safety Tips
• By following safety procedure instruction properly.
• By creating safe working conditions.
• By knowing and understanding the hazards.
• By ensuring the Equipment, Tools or Machines you use are good in condition, certified or maintained on
regular basis, used properly and safely by yourself and others.
• By wearing the personal protective equipments and by knowing actual purpose & use of it.
• By not diverting your colleagues while they are working.

4. Equipment Safety
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Safety
Precaution
Do not use
Broken
Equipment
Use
Proper
PPE
Do not
Operate if
out of
order or
faulty
Take off
any
jewellery
Use a cart
or trolley
to move
Heavy
items
Make Sure
staff is
trained
While
cleaning
unplug the
machine
Report
every
Incident &
Accident
Do not use
your hand
to push
food