Health & safety
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A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Protestors smash Ritz hotel windows; Ego and Rocket restaurant groups...
Posted: 28 March 2011 | 10:42
A Belgo restaurant in London has been fined £1,500 after a customer trapped a mouse with a pint glass as it scurried across the bar. The customer complained...
Posted: 24 March 2011 | 10:16
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Jamie Oliver brands Sarah Palin a 'Froot Loop'; breast milk ice-cream debuts in London salon and more...
Posted: 28 February 2011 | 10:34
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has officially launched its hygiene rating scheme. The public can now search for food businesses and their hygiene ratings at food.gov.uk/ratings...
Posted: 30 November 2010 | 13:28
The recent explosion of an espresso machine in a British café may be a rare event but it has highlighted the suspicion that many catering managers do not ensure clear safety procedures are put in place, writes Ian Boughton.
Posted: 26 November 2010 | 11:08
A new Manchester hotel whose construction ground to a halt when an 80 tonne mobile crane collapsed on the site is finally set to open. The four-star Holiday Inn Express on Oxford Road is the first of the brand's new-look hotels in the north of England.
Posted: 26 October 2010 | 17:47
Marriott International has been fined £15,000 after a woman fell through a ceiling at the four-star, 301-bedroom Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre and fractured part of her spine. The company pleaded guilty at Bristol Magistrates Court for neglecting their general duty to a visiting contractor.
Posted: 25 October 2010 | 12:16
What should you do if one of your employees is unable to carry out their normal day-to-day duties as a result of injury or illness, and how can you help them return to work? Sarah Gudgin explains the legal implications.
Posted: 21 October 2010 | 14:48
Fifteen guests and four members of staff at the four-star, 302-bedroom Glasgow Marriott Hotel have been taken ill in a suspected outbreak of the norovirus bug.
Health officials from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are investigating the sickness, which was first reported at 11am yesterday.
Posted: 30 September 2010 | 17:44
Topics covered in our weekly Infozone briefing include: call to improve staff health; wealthy to ignore retirement; and smaller firms in pension worry.
Posted: 30 September 2010 | 15:48
The owners of the Penhallow hotel in Newquay, Cornwall, where three people died in a fire three years ago, are to be prosecuted. Together with three other individuals, they will appear at Bodmin Magistrates Court on 21 October for breaches of fire precautions under the Regulatory Reform Order (Fire Safety) 2005.
Posted: 29 September 2010 | 13:02
Ethnic restaurants importing goods direct from China could be putting their reputation and the health of their customers at risk, according to a new report. Insurer and risk management firm Aon has warned that while there are many advantages to importing food and beverages from China, food safety standards are still some way behind those of the EU.
Posted: 20 September 2010 | 10:56
More than half of cleaning cloths used in restaurant and take-away kitchens contain too much bacteria, a new study has revealed. Research by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) published today...
Posted: 15 September 2010 | 10:05
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is set to launch a new national hygiene rating scheme which it hopes will render the branding associated with the controversial Scores on the Doors system obsolete. The new Food Hygiene Rating Scheme ditches the star system in favour of a number rating from 0 to 5.
Posted: 25 August 2010 | 12:05
Chris Moore has joined Safeguard Training and Consultancy as a food safety and health and safety consultant and trainer.
Posted: 13 August 2010 | 12:50
After receiving a one-star Scores on the Doors rating at his Greyhound pub, chef Antony Worrall Thompson vows to keep up with the paperwork in future while calling for a more mature approach to enforcing standards.
Posted: 30 July 2010 | 15:29
Chicken restaurant chain Nando's financial woes deepened after it made losses of £23m in the 36 weeks to February 2009, according to accounts filed with Companies House. Despite sales of £167m in that period, the UK arm of the South African restaurant group struggled as a result of rising raw ingredient prices...
Posted: 27 July 2010 | 14:48
A London Chinese restaurant has been fined £30,000 after health inspectors saw a mouse swimming in a portion of sweet and sour sauce that was about to be served to customers. The rodent was photographed as it jumped out of the bowl and ran along a pipe in the kitchen of the Kam Tong restaurant in Queensway, Bayswater, according to the London Evening Standard.
Posted: 27 July 2010 | 14:19
Having investigated some severe cases of food poisoning, Sylvia Anderson is familiar with all the potential pitfalls in kitchen hygiene. Here she provides tips on how to prepare yourself and your staff for environmental health food safety inspections
Posted: 23 July 2010 | 10:43
Tests have confirmed that the recent outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting at the five-star, 319-bedroom Hilton Hotel in Glasgow is norovirus. A total of 63 guests and 20 members of staff have experienced symptoms since the onset of the outbreak on Wednesday 14 July. Two guests were admitted to hospital, but have since been discharged.
Posted: 22 July 2010 | 12:49
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