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Council cries foul at KFC
An overly slippery floor surface at Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Ltd's Hereford outlet has landed the company with a conviction, having pleaded guilty to 2 charges under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. KFC was deemed to have failed to keep the floor of the kitchen free from substances likely to cause a person to slip. The company was also found to be infringing food hygiene regulations, Hereford Magistrates fined it £3,600 for each offence, with costs of £2,710.
Visits by Council officials in January 2006 found a number of areas in the kitchen with liquid, grease and oil spillages on the floor which made the quarry tiled surface very slippery and potentially dangerous.
The company says it has now introduced new cleaning processes and practices and improved the training staff received.
Comment:
“We’ve had a number of complaints and incidents at this store in relation to hygiene and the slippery condition of the floor and we raised these concerns on previous occasions with the company.
Where circumstances merit, and employers and food business operators fall foul of the law, we will have no hesitation to take firm action if that is what is required." - Herefordshire Council’s Head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards.
29.09.06
