Manual Handling
Pub stocks and equipment are often bulky, heavy and unwieldy so knowing how to safely handle kegs, casks, full crates, sacks of spuds, pub furniture etc is not only essential but also a legal requirement for you and your staff.
A Manual Handling Awareness Course will typically take 3-4 hours and will help you understand how to “push, pull and lift” safely and enable you to train your staff how to do these things safely too.
A Manual Handling Awareness Course will cover these topics:
- Review of Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended)
- Spine and vertebrae structures
- Risk assessment
- Weight limits and guidelines
- Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC)
- Common back injuries and their causes
- Safe manual handling techniques
- Employer/employee obligations
The most common cause of absence from work in the UK is due to back injury and back pain and the majority of these injuries can be prevented by effective risk assessment and Manual Handling training. Not only will you have a safe and efficient work place, but you will prevent unnecessary in injuries, reduce the potential of injury claims against your business and protect you whilst you work in your pub.
Fire Marshall Training
Fires are not only dangerous, resulting in injury and death, but are also hugely expensive for any business, none more so than pubs, that not only have to consider the safety and well-being of its staff but also that of its customers. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 came into effect in October 2006 and brought together 70 separate pieces of fire safety law. (For a review of this topic see the article on Fire Safety in the Buildings section.)
In order to comply with the Fire Safety Order and the regulations contained therein and enable you to undertake the duties of the responsible person in your pub you should seriously consider undertaking a Fire Marshall training course.
A Fire Marshall Course usually takes 3-4 hours and will cover the basics of fire safety:
- Chemistry of fire
- Classification of fire
- Fire spread
- Basic fire precautions
- Human behaviour in fire
- Selection of and use of fire extinguishers
- Movement in smoke and darkness
- Duties of a Fire Marshal/ Warden
- Company fire and evacuation policy
Once you have this basic Fire Safety training you will then also be able to understand what is the required for a proper Fire Risk Assessment, which, every business has to undertake.
Nothing will destroy your business (literally) or your professional reputation faster than a fire resulting in injury or death at your pub so thorough training for you and your staff is not only absolutely essential and a legal requirement.
See my separate articles on Fire Safety