This helps to prevent harmful Safety point bacteria spreading from laundry to Do you have separate laundry food. facilities? Yes No If not, what do you do? Cloths and cleaning equipment Do not allow kitchen cloths and other How do you keep kitchen kitchen cleaning equipment, such as cloths and cleaning This is to prevent harmful equipment separate from mops to be used outside the kitchen. bacteria spreading to the those used outside the kitchen. Ideally, use disposable cloths or paper kitchen? towels wherever possible. Medicines Ideally, medicines that need to This helps to avoid cross-contamination. How do you keep be refrigerated should be stored medicines separately from food. separated from food? the care home? Pets Pets and their bowls/equipment Yes No If you have any pets in the care can spread harmful bacteria to home, do not allow them (or their If yes, what do you do to food. feeding bowls or other equipment) make sure pets and their into the kitchen or other food feeding bowls are kept out of preparation/storage areas. the kitchen and storage areas? Do you have any pets in What to do if things go How to stop this happening again If you think that staff have not washed their hands before preparing food, ask them to wash their hands immediately and throw away any food they have touched. If a member of staff is not wearing a clean or disposable apron when serving food, ask them to put one on immediately and replace any food they have served. If you think that a kitchen cloth has been used in another area of the care home, throw away the cloth. If dirty laundry or a laundry basket has been put onto a work surface, remove it and wash and disinfect the surface. Wash and disinfect any equipment, surface or utensil touched by pets.
Safety point This helps to prevent harmful bacteria spreading from laundry to food. Do you have separate laundry facilities? Yes No If not, what do you do? Cloths and cleaning equipment Do not allow kitchen cloths and other kitchen cleaning equipment, such as mops to be used outside the kitchen. Ideally, use disposable cloths or paper towels wherever possible. This is to prevent harmful bacteria spreading to the kitchen. How do you keep kitchen cloths and cleaning equipment separate from those used outside the kitchen? Medicines Ideally, medicines that need to be refrigerated should be stored separately from food. This helps to avoid cross-contamination. How do you keep medicines separated from food? Pets If you have any pets in the care home, do not allow them (or their feeding bowls or other equipment) into the kitchen or other food preparation/storage areas. Pets and their bowls/equipment can spread harmful bacteria to food. Do you have any pets in the care home? Yes No If yes, what do you do to make sure pets and their feeding bowls are kept out of the kitchen and storage areas? What to do if things go How to stop this happening again If you think that staff have not washed their hands before preparing food, ask them to wash their hands immediately and throw away any food they have touched. If a member of staff is not wearing a clean or disposable apron when serving food, ask them to put one on immediately and replace any food they have served. If you think that a kitchen cloth has been used in another area of the care home, throw away the cloth. If dirty laundry or a laundry basket has been put onto a work surface, remove it and wash and disinfect the surface. Wash and disinfect any equipment, surface or utensil touched by pets.
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