Workplace Hazards and Safety Measures at Monopole Restaurant

Task or scenario Hazard/s Associated harm Existing Risk
Controls Current risk
rating
Any additional
controls are
required?
Residual
risk
rating
In work place slippery floor
or the falling objects,
misplaced objects and other
things play a key role as the
risk factors. As a restaurant
Monopole kitchens could be
filled with slippery floors
and electronic cooking
machines are the modern
day useful tools of which
wires and other unused
machines could be found in
a way that could be harmful
for the kitchen workers and
could injure them if not
detected (Monopole., 2019).
Safety
Hazard
Unorganised cables of
machineries could be the
cause of destruction of
assets as these could lead to
electro fusion. The
unorganised cables and
machineries could cause
fire or other physical
hazards to the kitchen
workers, leading to death
of workers and the
destruction of the factory
assets by forming fire or
other electrical issues.
In order to
control these
unwanted
conditions the
restaurant
organisers
needs to
organise the
cables and also
aware the
people working
in the kitchen
and also the
marking of the
safety zone and
the unsafe zone
also help in the
action of
High as the
risk factor of
the
unorganised
machineries
and wires are
one of the
risk factors in
the modern
kitchens.
Work health and
safety Act 2011
would need to be
included for the
monitoring of these
kinds of workplace
hazards and provide
employee rights
properly
(Legislation.gov.au,
2019). The Safework
SA, a government
organisation needed
to be regulating the
control of the
employee safety in
the restaurant.
Moreover the first
Medium

safety. aid care would be
included for the
primary care
providence to the
employees
(Safework.sa.gov.au,
2019).
In restaurants dusts, fumes,
chemicals and vapours
could be found spilled in
the room temperature or in
high temperature as well.
These chemicals or other
substances could harm the
workers breathing along
with eyes, skin and other
organs. As a restaurant the
Monopole kitchen pose
threat from the dust and the
vapours mostly. These
gases, dusts and other
things can cause chronic
Chemical
Hazard
Chemicals can lead to
unwanted fire which can
lead to unwanted deaths
and asset loss of the
restaurant. The fumes of
LPG gases used for the
cooking can also cause fire
by bombarding the LPG
cylinder if come in contact
with other flaming agents.
Proper
observation of
gas leak or
harmful
chemical
spilling or dust
monitoring
needed in terms
of the safety
measures
against these
chemical
hazards. The
machines used
in the kitchen
High as the
risk factor of
the dusts and
the LPG gas
in the kitchen
of a
restaurant is
predominant.
Here also the
inclusion of the
government
monitoring and the
legislative act needed
for the betterment of
the working
environment. The
primary health care
in case of any injury
would be needed as
well (Walton &
Rogers, 2017).
Medium

diseases inside their bodies
(Kowalski-McGraw et al.,
2017).
also need to be
checked routine
basis in order
to prevent the
factor of
chemical
hazard.
Loud noises and the manual
use of the machineries in
the kitchen could affect the
physical condition of the
kitchen staffs of Monopole.
As a restaurant the
Monopole’s kitchen staff
also needs to work with
sharp objects such as knives
and other cutting
instruments which could be
able to harm the staffs in a
dangerous way (d'Errico,
Ardito & Leombruni,
Physical
Hazard
The sharp object could also
lead to problematic
situations if those are not
properly placed. The
machineries which needs to
be manually controlled
would also play a key role
in affecting the worker
health and cause the
manpower problems for the
restaurant.
In case of
heavy
machines the
machines
needed to be
replaced with
modern
lightweight
machines
which can
work
effectively and
build on the
basis of the
ergonomics of
Very high as
the manual
machinery
works are
needed in the
kitchen and
the sharp
cutting
objects also
needed to be
used in the
cooking
process.
Primary care
providing team
needed to be
incorporated and also
the automatic
machineries required
and elimination of
the manual handling
would be needed for
the employee ease in
the context of the
work load and help
them lessening the
physical stress along
with the sharp object
Medium