Restaurant Industry Safety & Health - Back of the House
Training from L&I
Presentations
Training materials to provide awareness on the subjects they cover.
- Accident Prevention Program
- Chemical Hazard Communication
- Common Worker Muscle Skeletal Symptoms Disorder (WMSD)
- Emergency Washing Equipment
- Ergonomics Awareness Education for Employees and Supervisors
- Eye Protection
- First Aid for General Industry
- Hand Protection
- How to Control Repetitive Hand and Wrist Task
- Injury Prevention in Restaurants and Kitchens
- Job hazard Analysis
- Ladder Safety -General Ladder Use Hazards
- Lifting Hazards
- Lockout/Tagout
- Machine Safeguarding
- Meat Cutter Safety
- Preventing Overexertion Injuries
- Slips, Trips, and Falls-Module 1
- Slips, Trips, and Falls-Module 2
- Using a Fire Extinguisher
- Working in Cold Environments
Instructors Training Kits
Free materials for instructors to build customized training.
Posters/Publications
Free materials you can view, download and print or order from L&I.
Emergency Treatment of Burns- First Aid Contents Guide
- Four Steps To Proper Lifting
- Fryer Safety
- Preventing Slips and Falls
- Quick Tips for Lifting
- Scald Burns in Restaurant Workers
- Ten Safe Handling Hints for Knives
- Ten Steps for Avoiding Burns
- Workers' Guide to Hazardous Chemicals (English & Spanish)
Videos
Videos you can watch online or reserve from L&I's video library.
- Avoiding Kitchen Burns
- Food Service Safety : Avoiding Kitchen Burns
- Food Service Safety Videos Search Results
- Heat Stress : Don't Lose Your Cool / La Fatiga causada por el calor
- Heat Stress Prevention
- Protecting Yourself and Your Customers : Program 1 (Restaurant Safety)
- Preventing Work Related Burns: Restaurant Series
- Preventing Burns and Fires
- Preventing Slips, Trips & Falls : Restaurant Series
- Preventing Cuts and Lacerations
- Restaurant HazCom [Former Title: Hazard Communications]
- Restaurant Orientation
- Restaurant Safety : Robbery Prevention and Awareness / Cómo Prevenir Robos
- Restaurant Safety Videos (Subject search)
- Safe Handling of Kitchen Tools and Machinery
- Teens Teaching Teens : Food Service Safety Tips
- Teen Workers: Real Jobs, Real Risks (English/Spanish)
- Violence on the job (NIOSH videos)
- Young pizzeria worker loses three fingers (WorkSafeBC on-line video)
Workshops
No-fee workshops provided by L&I at locations near you.
- Accident Investigation Basics (no-fee workshop)
- Accident Prevention (no-fee workshop )
- Developing Effective Safety Committees (no-fee workshop)
- Preventing Back Injuries (no-fee workshop)
Alerts & Bulletins
Learn about specific events and how you can prevent them from happening in your workplace.
- Carbon Monoxide poisoning from Gas Fired Cooking Units in Food Preparation Locations
- Corrosive Cleaning Products (SHARP)
- Do you cook with butter-flavored oils or butter substitutes? Information for Restaurant Owners and Workers about Diacetyl (SHARP)
- Food-processing equipment amputates worker's hand and forearm
- Latex Allergy
- Young cook seriously burned by boiling water , Spanish version (SHARP)
- Young man seriously burned while cleaning deep fryer (SHARP)
Training from Others
Training resources from other organizations. Important: "Links" to other information sources are provided as a courtesy, but we cannot vouch for or take responsibility for information contained beyond files administered by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. Information in this content may conflict with L&I rule requirements. Links do not represent or imply the endorsement of commercial products by the State of Washington, Labor and Industries, or by departmental staff. For more information, read L&I's Intended Usage policy.
Accident Prevention Program
- Housekeeping (WorkSafeBC Safety talk)
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That's Gonna Hurt: Clean Up Spills and Keep Floors Clean (WorkSafeBC Poster)
Biological
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Preventing Occupational Respiratory Disease from Exposures caused by Dampness in Office Buildings, Schools, and Other Nonindustrial Buildings (NIOSH Hazard alert)
Chemical
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (OSHA Quick Card)
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That could really hurt: Cleaners can burn too (WorkSafeBC Poster)
- Worker Safety in Restaurants: Clean-up: Hazardous Chemicals (OSHA eTool)
Emergency
- Fire Extinguisher Basics (OSHA eTool)
Personal Protective Equipment
- Eye and Face protection (OSHA eTool)
Physical Safety & Health
- 15 year old crushed while cleaning a dough mixing machine. (NJ FACE Investigation Report)
- 25-Year-Old Restaurant Manager Electrocuted (NIOSH FACE Fatality Report)
- Accident Investigation: Restaurant Kettle explodes (WorkSafeBC. Audio slideshow)
- Baker's arm caught in bread dough machine (WorkSafeBC. Hazard alert)
- Bakery Worker Fatally Injured in a Fall from a Stepladder (MA NIOSH FACE report)
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Basics of Machine Safeguarding Hazards and Solutions (Booklet)
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Burns in the Restaurant (Zenith Insurance Company, English/ Spanish Poster)
- Cooking electrical hazards (OSHA eTool)
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Deep Fat Fryers (WorkSafeBC Safety talk)
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Don't find out by accident! (Burns and Cuts poster - Oregon OSHA)
- Electrical Hazards (OSHA eTool)
- Electrocution in a Fast Food Restaurant (NIOSH FACE Fatality Report)
- Explosion in Gas Bakery Oven (WorkSafeBC)
- Exposure to flour dust at work can cause asthma (WorkSafeBC)
- Fingers Amputated in Hamburger Patty Machine (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety-Ontario)
- Flexible Cords (OSHA eTool)
- Frozen "mushroom cap" handle traps worker inside freezer (WorkSafeBC Hazard alert)
- Garland Kettles-Electric Shock (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety-Ontario)
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Knives and Sharps (WorkSafeBC Safety talk)
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Lockout (WorkSafeBC Safety talk)
- Machine Guarding (OSHA eTool. Useful for any-aged worker)
- Pasta machine catches sleeve, breaks hand (WorkSafeBC. Hazard alert)
- Physical Hazards in Housekeeping/Custodial Work (Online course)
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Preventing burns and scalds (WorkSafeBC Safety tip sheet, poster)
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Preventing cuts (WorkSafeBC Safety tip sheet, poster)
- Preventing Cutting Injuries (WorkSafeBC Tip sheet, poster)
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Preventing Lifting Injuries (WorkSafeBC Safety tip sheet, poster)
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Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls (WorkSafeBC Safety tip sheet, poster)
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Preventing Work-Related Burn Injury to Youth Working in Fast Food Restaurants (NIOSH. Fact sheet describing risks for burns in fast food restaurants and recommendations for prevention)
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Protecting Workers from Effects of Heat (OSHA Fact Sheet).
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Protecting Workers from Heat Illness (NIOSH Information sheet)
- Restaurant maintenance worker wedged between sump pump pipe support bar and sump pump crock rim (NIOSH FACE Fatality Report)
- Restaurant Safety - Burn protection (OSHA eTool. Useful for any-aged worker)
- Restaurant Safety - Heat and Cold Exposure (OSHA eTool. Useful for any-aged worker)
- Restaurant Safety - Kitchen Heat Hazards (OSHA eTool. Useful for any-aged worker)
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Scalds and Burns (WorkSafeBC Safety talk)
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Slips, trips, and Falls (WorkSafeBC Safety talk)
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Stepladders (WorkSafeBC Safety talk)
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Ten Safe Handling Hints for Knives (Tip sheet, poster)
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Ten Steps for Avoiding Burns (Tip sheet, poster)
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That's gotta hurt: Get help and use oven mitts (WorkSafe BC Poster)
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That's gotta hurt: Save Your Fingers. Use the Guards. (WorkSafeBC Poster)
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That's gotta hurt: Don't Defeat the Safeguards (WorkSafeBC Poster)
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That's Gonna Hurt: Bend Your Knees to Lift (WorkSafeBC Poster)
- Two workers seriously injured in propane explosion (WorkSafeBC. Hazard alert)
- Three workers injured when restaurant kettle explodes (WorkSafeBC. Hazard alert)
- Young worker's arm caught in conveyor belt (WorkSafeBC. Hazard alert)
Specific Workplaces and Activities
- Beverage Delivery Ergonomics (OSHA eTool. Useful for any workers moving and storing delivered goods)
- Food and Beverage Processing Equipment (WorkSafeBC Safety Alert)
- Food products manufacturing: Safeguard and don't pay the price with your hands (WorkSafeBC. Audio slideshow)
- Grocery Warehousing Ergonomics (OSHA eTool. Useful for any workers handling and moving goods)
- Heat-related Illness Education Card (Pocket-sized safety tip card, English/Spanish)
- Kitchen Equipment (OSHA eTool. Useful for any-aged worker)
- Kitchen Safety: What's wrong with this photo? (WorkSafeBC. Interactive training tool)
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Preventing Injuries to Dishwashers (WorkSafeBC Safety tip sheet)
- Preventing Injuries to Kitchen Staff (WorkSafeBC Safety tip sheet)
- Restaurant Safety - Freezers (OSHA eTool)
- Restaurant Safety Training modules (Oregon OSHA. English/Spanish. Scroll down to "Restaurant Tip Sheets" for PowerPoint presentation, PDF, or Audio-guided formats. Use for training and as tool for hazard identification and control.)
- Safe Work Practices for Custodians: A Clean Sweep (WorkSafeBC. Booklet)
- Using Deep Fat Fryers Safely (WorkSafeBC. Safety tip sheet, poster)
- Worker Safety in Restaurants (OSHA eTool. Useful for any-aged worker)
- Working in Hot Environments (Centers for Disease Control)
How can I get help from L&I?
- To request a confidential workplace safety or health consultation, call or visit http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Basics/Assistance/Consultation/about.asp for no charge technical assistance.
- For help with controlling your claims costs, call or visit http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Basics/Assistance/Consultation/riskmanagement.asp for a no charge risk management consultation.
- Find information about filing a workplace safety & health complaint you may call or visit a local L&I office to file a complaint.
- Follow guidance in Steps To a Safe Workplace to create your safety program from scratch.
- For general information, call 1-800-423-7233.
