No matter how reputable a business you run, the one thing customers can’t overlook is poor health and safety. This is especially true in the catering industry, where consistent food safety standards are paramount; there is no getting around undercooked food or badly cleaned appliances. Food hy…
A Lincolnshire food manufacturer has been fined after a worker fell from a breadcrumb-making machine.
The 39-year-old maintenance technician from Gainsborough had climbed onto the machine at Kerry Ingredients (UK) Ltd in Carr Lane, to install a lifting beam across the top of the large vessel in or…
A major European food business producing raw and prepared chicken products has been fined £230,000 after two incidents at its Suffolk factory, one of which led to an employee losing his right hand.
Night shift supervisor Shaun Alexander, 42, from Kesingland in Suffolk, was helping a member of hi…
A food processing firm has been sentenced after one of its employees suffered serious injuries to her arm at a Wigan factory.
The worker, who has asked not to be named, needed a metal plate in her left arm after it became caught in a potato blanching machine at the plant on Dobson Park Way in Ince…