From Stockport Council:

The School Catering team from Solutions SK, Stockport’s wholly owned company, has been awarded the RoSPA silver award following extensive work to reduce accidents in school kitchens.

The RoSPA Awards scheme is not only about reducing the number of accidents and cases of ill-health at work; it also encourages organisations to develop robust health and safety management systems.

The School Catering team worked closely with Solutions SK’s Health & Safety team to improve the health and safety management system. They introduced the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) approved method for floor cleaning. The team also risk assessed over 100 kitchen floors and issued safety overshoes with a slip resistant grip to employees.

Following the introduction of the new floor cleaning technique and the safety overshoes, there has been a 50% reduction in accidents involving slips, trips and falls in school kitchens. The HSE is using Solutions SK as a ‘best practice’ case study in their ‘Shattered Lives’ campaign.

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