Kitchen Risk Assessment Template
A free kitchen risk assessment template for UK commercial kitchens: slips, burns and scalds, knives, manual handling, deep fat fryers, gas, electrical, chemicals and lone working, pre-filled with typical controls, plus a blank form and an action plan. PDF, ready to print.
Every employer must assess the risks to staff and anyone else affected by the work, and write the significant findings down once there are five or more employees. A commercial kitchen is the highest-risk room in hospitality: hot oil, open flames, knives, wet floors, heavy deliveries and caustic cleaning chemicals in a space where people move fast. This free kitchen risk assessment template follows the HSE five-step method and comes pre-filled with the hazards an inspector expects to find in a kitchen, each with the usual controls, so your job is to check what matches your kitchen, add what is missing and write down what you will do about the gaps.
What's in the PDF
Kitchen Risk Assessment (Pre-filled)
Typical hazards and controls for a commercial kitchen. Amend every line to match your premises before signing. Columns: Hazard · Who Could Be Harmed and How · Existing Controls · Risk (H/M/L) · Further Action Needed · Owner / Date.
Risk Assessment (Blank)
For hazards specific to your kitchen that the pre-filled sheet does not cover. Columns: Hazard · Who Could Be Harmed and How · Existing Controls · Risk (H/M/L) · Further Action Needed · Owner / Date.
Action Plan
Columns: Action · Hazard It Controls · Priority (H/M/L) · Owner · Target Date · Date Completed.
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How to use this template
Walk the kitchen with the pre-filled sheet
Check each pre-filled hazard against your own kitchen at a busy moment, not an empty one. Cross out what does not apply and note what the sheet has missed.
Judge the risk with your controls in place
Rate each hazard high, medium or low as it stands today. Be honest: a control that exists on paper but not in practice does not lower the risk.
Write the further action and give it an owner
Anything rated medium or high needs an action, a named person and a date on the action plan. That column is what an inspector reads first.
Brief the team and diarise the review
Talk the team through the hazards they face and where the assessment lives. Review it annually and after any accident, near miss, refit or new piece of equipment.
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