health and safety at the co op

Emmzi

I've never seen a walk in freezer without a lever to open it on the inside, so I am horrified!

anonymous call to HSE?

feelex

Was exactly like that when I worked at Somerfield in 2007 - tbh I just figured it was part of the job! Left every day with trapped fingers, banged shins etc and most of my work was in the walk-in freezer so always wore gloves and a scarf for the many occasions I was locked in my accident!
Don't know why I didn't think more of it when I was there, was just the way things were done so I got on with it... Looking back it can't have been very good!

GothicStirling

I find this very odd. The reason the door swings shut like that is to prevent the temperature rising to a level that will allow bacterial growth. What your wife should find is an emergency button inside the freezer that unlocks the door from inside.

Of course food shouldn't be on the floor, it will attract vermin and pests.

I've lost count of how many times I've been locked in the freezer. One time it was even slammed shut by the manager, because he thought it had been left open. LOL.

GothicStirling

feelex wrote: »

Was exactly like that when I worked at Somerfield in 2007 - tbh I just figured it was part of the job! Left every day with trapped fingers, banged shins etc and most of my work was in the walk-in freezer so always wore gloves and a scarf for the many occasions I was locked in my accident!
Don't know why I didn't think more of it when I was there, was just the way things were done so I got on with it... Looking back it can't have been very good!

It is part of the job. Once the chef dumped a basket of chips straight out of the fryer on my arm. I had the most horrific blisters up my forearm after that.

GothicStirling

familyguy1969 wrote: »

i have photos on my phone where she has burnt her arm taking trays out the hot oven, burnt because they were told not to wear there white coats because it never matched with the rest of the workers work tops ( blue ) so the oven gloves dont cover her arm only half way along the forearm when she kicked up about the nasty burn someone said you should have wore your jacket then!! you dont know how close i am to going around and sorting out her manager, but that will only cause her grief again.... GRRRRR

Why isn't she wearing her PPE? This means she is the one breaking Health and Safety.

feelex

GothicStirling wrote: »

It is part of the job. Once the chef dumped a basket of chips straight out of the fryer on my arm. I had the most horrific blisters up my forearm after that.

Was kind of the attitude I took! Have had a few jobs in the hospitality industry and have been burned on more occasions than I'd care to remember lol. Mostly due to my own error (slipping etc) but either way, never something I've complained about.

Googlewhacker

familyguy1969 wrote: »

i have photos on my phone where she has burnt her arm taking trays out the hot oven, burnt because they were told not to wear there white coats because it never matched with the rest of the workers work tops ( blue ) so the oven gloves dont cover her arm only half way along the forearm when she kicked up about the nasty burn someone said you should have wore your jacket then!! you dont know how close i am to going around and sorting out her manager, but that will only cause her grief again.... GRRRRR

She does have a responsibility for health and safety as much as the employer and she DOES need to refuse to do things unsafely if she knows it is not safe. Not easy but she is partly liable for some of what has happened.

And yes 'sorting out' her manager is only likely to let you see the inside of a police cell.

familyguy1969

whats PPE ??

Googlewhacker

GothicStirling wrote: »

It is part of the job. Once the chef dumped a basket of chips straight out of the fryer on my arm. I had the most horrific blisters up my forearm after that.

I don't agree, there would have been a safe way for that chef to have got those chips out without burning you.

familyguy1969

yes your right you can refuse but there is always someone willing to do it and take your job at my work like hers there is never enough time, everything seems to be done at 100mph and if not the boss is asking what your !!!!ing about for....i guess we just have to take it on the chin come what may...