{"id":12011,"date":"2017-04-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=12011"},"modified":"2017-04-06T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:00:00","slug":"safety-in-the-restaurant-walk-in-coolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/safety-in-the-restaurant-walk-in-coolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety in the Restaurant: Walk-in Coolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; color: #333333; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Commercial refrigeration and freezer spaces are found in just about every restaurant and grocery store. These insulated cold rooms can be as small as 4 feet by 4 feet or as large as a warehouse. Safety specialists advise all employees to familiarize themselves with information on worker safety for walk-in units. Coolers and freezers contain enough hazards to turn a quick trip to a stockroom into a potentially dangerous scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">If your business has a walk-in freezer, it is important and potentially life-saving to implement some safety procedures.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Over time it seems we naturally become desensitized to safety procedures. We get busier and work faster; it\u2019s easy to forget best practices.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Consider adding a panic button or at the very least have the closing manager check the freezer before leaving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;Before the final lock there should always be a full sweep of the dining room, kitchen, and coolers to ensure nothing is left on and no one is left behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.etundra.com\/in-the-restaurant\/safety-restaurant-walk-coolers\/\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/blog.etundra.com\/in-the-restaurant\/safety-restaurant-walk-coolers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial refrigeration and freezer spaces are found in just about every restaurant and grocery store. These insulated cold rooms can be as small as 4 feet by 4 feet or as large as a warehouse. Safety specialists advise all employees to familiarize themselves with information on worker safety for walk-in units. Coolers and freezers contain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}