Slips/Trips/Falls
Restaurant workers can be injured due to slips, trips, and falls while doing a variety of tasks, including:
- carrying trays or bins of dirty dishes
- washing dishes
- mopping floors
- emptying trash
- cleaning
- spraying down parking lots
Safety Adventure
Possible Solutions
There are many things you and your employer can do to help prevent injuries from slips, trips, and falls. Here are a few suggestions:
- Keep passageways and walkways free of clutter and crowding.
- Be sure rugs and mats are in place.
- Wipe up spills immediately.
- Do not overfill bussing containers. If containers are overfilled, workers can focus too much on keeping everything inside the container that they forget where they are going and trip and fall over items in the way.
Safe Work Practices
Your employer should consider the following safe work practices to help prevent injuries:
- Consider implementing a shoe policy program. The program could focus on employees wearing proper non-slip footwear.
- Consider providing non-slip shoe covers for employees when they perform greasy tasks.
- Ensure spills are reported and cleaned up immediately.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
2-7. A customer reports a spill in the restaurant you are working in. When should you clean up the spill?
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