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Safety Measures For Commercial Refrigeration

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For many businesses, concerns around commercial refrigeration revolve around cost, efficiency, and maintenance; it’s easy to notice when your commercial freezer or commercial cool room is suffering a performance loss and producing higher energy bills.

However, as with any piece of equipment, you need to handle your commercial refrigeration unit safely and responsibly. Like a desiccant air dryer system commercial refrigeration requires good planning and patience in order to function best. To reduce the likelihood of mishaps and accidents arising from issues with your commercial refrigerator, you should ensure that your staff are well-trained in following the correct procedures with solid safety measures in place.

For more information on how you can implement and improve safety measures for your commercial refrigeration unit, read below.

Keep The Unit Clean

Unit cleanliness is essential in maintaining the health and safety of your commercial cool room and other commercial refrigeration units. Be sure to remove any frost, ice, and spills that might pose a potential hazard to staff members and remove any items that may cause someone to slip and fall.

Other than that, be sure to have the shelves, doors, and interior walls thoroughly cleaned with the correct cleaning products to prevent and remove any mould build up that may cause respiratory health issues and damage inventory.

Do Not Overload Your Refrigerator

Walk-in freezers and other commercial refrigerators will have an upper limit on how many items can fit in their storage capacity, so be sure to observe these guidelines and adhere to them.

Overloading your unit can put undue stress on shelves and storage spaces. Collapsed shelves can damage your inventory and lead to wastage, not to mention the possibility of accidentally causing severe harm to your staff member that might happen to be passing by.

To avoid the risk of accidents, try not to place too many shelves in your commercial cool room and always ensure that shelves are placed at eye level, as higher frames can make inventory hard to reach, putting your staff members at risk.

Have Protective Gear Available

Using protective gear applies more to commercial cool rooms than standard commercial refrigerators, as commercial refrigerators are usually found in supermarkets and retail shops with average ambient temperature.

For those working in an environment with constant commercial and industrial refrigeration, it’s common knowledge that spending a significant amount of time in low temperatures handling frozen items can take its toll on the body.

As such, it’s crucial to have adequate protective wear available for your staff, such as gloves and coats. Ensuring that your team are well-equipped to work in a commercial cool room can help them maintain their physical health and look after the inventory more appropriately.

As a general rule, always have a few pieces of protective gear nearby your commercial room so your staff member can easily access them, and be sure to keep a few spares just in case.

Install Alarms In Case Someone Is Trapped

Given the extremely low temperatures that a commercial cool room can reach, being stuck inside one for an extended period of time can be deadly due to the dangers of hypothermia.

In case of emergencies, it’s always a good idea to install an alarm in your commercial cool room for your employees if they’re accidentally locked inside, be it a manual trigger or an automatic detection system if an individual has been in the room for far too long.

It can be hard to be heard by anyone outside if you’re trapped in a commercial cool room. So, it’s vital that you have a siren or obvious indicator in place that your employees can trigger to prevent a minor accident from turning into a deadlier situation.

Regularly Inspect Your Fridge

Proper inspection and maintenance can go a long way toward ensuring your commercial cool room abides by high safety standards and isn’t a hazard to employee or consumer health. Check for any shelving damage, systems damage, frost, spills, mould, and anything that can threaten your unit’s safe running.

If you find any problems that you or your staff can’t fix, contact your local commercial refrigeration repairs in Adelaide. Commercial refrigeration experts can not only fix any ongoing issues you may have with your unit but can also be hired to routinely inspect your commercial cool room and ensure that everything is in order.

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