HAZARD

• Hazard is anything with the potential to cause injury, illness, or damage
• After identifying a hazard, employees need to:

  • Ensure everyone in the workplace is aware of the problem
  • Inform or notify the supervisor, or if the supervisor, initiate a safety committee plan
  • Make follow-ups to ensure the problem is addressed
  • Record or file any reports or documents about the problem
• To make everyone safe, it's essential to keep oneself, the food, and the workplace clean
• To Keep Oneself Clean:

  • Wash hands thoroughly
  • Keep fingernails short and clean
  • Always wear PPE at work
  • Wear a mask at all times
  • Remove all accessories before working
• To Keep the Food Clean:

  • Avoid handling food with wounds, cuts, or infections
  • Use clean and sanitized gloves to minimize hand contact with food
  • Refrigerate perishable food
  • Store food in clean containers with covers
  • Wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly before use
  • Check food and containers for possible contamination
  • Clean ingredient containers regularly
  • Follow the policy of first in, first out
  • Label food packages for information
• To Keep the Workplace Clean:

  • Avoid personal hygiene activities in the workplace
  • Do not eat, smoke, or spit in the workplace
  • Do not sit on equipment or worktables
  • Keep surrounding areas free from dirt and disorganization
  • Follow the Japanese philosophy of good housekeeping:
• Physical Hazards.

  These are brought by unhealthy working conditions, poor lighting, poor ventilation, insufficient facilities, inefficient or faulty equipment or machine, and improper work practices like wrong use of knives.
• Biological Hazards.


  These are brought about by workers infected with diseases or illnesses, unhygienic personal practices that can transmit bacteria, parasites, fungi to other workers and food and equipment being handled. Hence, it is advised that Covid-19 probable cases should be isolated right away.
• Ergonomic Hazards.


  These are brought by poor posture when working long periods of standing, bending, pushing, lifting, carrying that can cause body stress, muscle pains, and soreness, back injury, numbness of hands, feet and other parts of the body.
• Psychological Hazards.


  These are brought by too much stress from work that may cause mental emotional strains, anxieties, depression-losing focus on one's work and others
• • Seiri/sort (Tidiness): throw away all rubbish and unrelated materials
  • Seiton/set-in-order (Orderliness): set everything in the proper place for quick retrieval and storage
  • Seiso/sweep (Cleanliness): clean the workplace; everyone should contribute
  • Seiketsu/standardize (Standardization): standardize the way of maintaining cleanliness
  • Shitsuke/sustain (Discipline): practice 5S daily to make it a way of life