What the law says

Entertainment and leisure is a growth industry but restaurants and bars can easily fail if they don't protect their reputation, comply with health and safety laws and stay ahead of the competition.

Successful leisure and catering businesses, understand that it can take years to build up a loyal client base and positive reputation – but this can all be destroyed in just a single case of food poisoning along with the ensuing bad publicity.

Here is what Shieldyourself established for them to eradicate any such possibility:

The Shieldyourself approach

Case study: Large bar and restaurant chain

Number of sites: 40

Their requirements: Needed a legal compliance solution for health and safety, food safety and fire safety – in addition to the training for these areas. They also wanted to review all service contracts, improve service levels and reduce costs.

Shieldyourself solution:

• Reviewed HACCP and food hygiene audit at each site. Compiled Food Safety Management System to comply with Food Safety Act 1990 and associated regulations.
• Conducted full health and safety policy review, roles, responsibilities, work place hazards and risk assessments and provided revised policy and procedures.
• Provided management with policy training session. Trained all staff via user-friendly Learning Management System - saving them 80% on training costs. Head Office also knows where each employee is up to in training and can produce site-wide reports from their desk.
• Developed a General Managers' internal audit. Reviewed existing kitchen audit, bar audit and 1,000-point check audit with head office personnel. Reviewed results of audit. Monitoring accident statistics to feed back into risk assessments for annual audit.
• Developed an external audit system to manage brand standards, health and safety, food safety and fire safety at site level.
• Conducted full fire risk assessment at each site using former chief station officers. Designated Fire Wardens and fire Marshals. Delivered fire safety training to all staff at each site.
• Established annual pest prevention contract (in all areas and for each site) using our unique pest control intelligence system.
• Conducted manual handling and first aid review and training.
• Set up washroom services contract for all sites.
• Liaised with the Home Authority Environmental Health Departments. Dealt with any local environmental health or health and safety compliance issues for each site.
• Co-chairing their Health and Safety committee meetings with managers to provide support and advice.
• Now managing Waste Management contract, PAT testing (portable appliance), gas safety checks and fire extinguisher contract.
• Checked their suppliers for legal compliance.
• Provide ad hoc email and telephone support and advice, by qualified EHO if required.