Safety in Bakeries: My Take
posted on 7 January 2012 | posted in
Construction and Industrial
I once worked in a bakery which had insufficient health and safety precautions - we didn't have sufficient training, nor appropriate overalls. I was responsible for cleaning the surfaces and windows but the cleaning products were improperly labeled, so I would sometimes use the wrong substances for the wrong purposes. This could have caused chemical residues where they were not meant to be. I also was ordered to use dangerous equiptment without proper training, namely the plastic packaging machine which used a heated bar to seal products inside plastic wrapping. The bar was potentially dangerous but I was not instructed on how to use it, but rather ordered to do so. I was however given training on how to use the bread slicer, which was out of date and rusty and therefore hard to operate. As a small woman I found it very heavy and stiff to use but due to the training my use of it was significantly safer than it would have been. I left the job eventually because I felt the health and safety of myself and the customers was not being respected.
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