Hospitality Health and Safety

. Demonstrates high standards of personal hygiene
Clothing and footwear is clean and are prepared to work
Clean hands and nails
All nail polish and jewellery has been removed
Their hair is out of the way (tied or wear a hair net)

. Contagious Illnesses: what to do.
You start to come down with a cold or flu on a day you had been scheduled to work?
Call the manager/boss and notify him that you are possibly getting a cold and stay home until you are ready to go back to work.

You start to feel ill while you are at work and have to rush to the bathroom suddenly. You then suffer from vomiting and diarrhea for the next 15 minutes?
Get somebody at work to go tell the manager that you are sick and then get somebody to drop u off at home so that you don't get anyone else sick or you don't put any puke on the food.

You think you might have Hepatitis A?
Tell the manager that u might have Hepatitis A and check if it has spreader through anything else, suggest to get a new clean water system installed.

. Food contamination:
Work habits that help prevent contamination:
Using disposable gloves when preparing or handling food.
Using clean utensils to prepare, handle or sample food.
Using hygienic hand drying facilities.
Using tongs when handling food.
Personal habits that may cause contamination:
Touching nose or mouth when preparing or handling food.
Touching hair when preparing or handling food.
Scratching yourself when preparing or handling food.
Spitting in food preparation, storage or handling areas.

.Pests:
List of pests that can cause food infestation.
Weevils,Rats,Mice,Birds,Beetles,Moth,Dogs,Cats ETC
Explain how a food business could prevent the following pests from becoming an infestation threat.

.Insects: Look carefully at the food to see if it looks like there is anything dodgy about it, double check if everything is clean because if it's not clean it can attract insects.

.Rodents: Pick up food from the ground and put it in the scraps bin, this is useless but look through the security cameras in the kitchen if there are any Rodents roaming around and keep some rat traps handy just in case.

.Birds: Look for holes on the roof outside the building and inside the building and look for holes outside and inside the building walls, when located any holes get some type of wire and cover the holes with the wire or get a hammer and nails and a piece of wood and cover the holes with wood using nails and hammer.

.Dogs/Cats: Just don't bring your pet to the food facility.