Lesson Two: Kitchen Equipment Safety

Student Activity: Kitchen equipment safety

Learning Intensions:

Identify the changes necessary to designed solutions to realise preferred futures that have been described.

Success Criteria:  

Identify and demonstrate how food preparation can impact the quality of food solutions (ACTDEK045)

Learning Experience:

1. Explore the text below, as you are reading the content, consider the three topics of hygiene discussed in the last task. 

2. Think, Pair and Share your knowledge from last lesson to discover other view point from the peer group.

3. Add any further thoughts from the discussion to your sketch.

4. Using your collected safety concerns for the kitchen from Lesson One and the example of the HACCP Checklist below: Create a checklist for a person working as a food producer in our school kitchen that highlights food and environment safety techniques and highlights factors that could negatively impact on practical development of design decisions. The checklist should provide suggestions of how to minimise the risk of OHS and WHS concerns in the environment. 

In pairs, use a Cluster Diagram to create a visual diagram to refine your knowledge and ideas. Each pair is to find another pair and make a group of four. Students are to discuss their checklists and refine to a decided final copy.


The groups of four need to find another group of four to become an eight. Students discuss their checklists and refine to a decided final copy. Students to come back as a class. One student per group to talk for one minute about their collective decisions while the teacher creates an anchor checklist based on collaborative feedback on the task.

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Kitchen Safety

Using safe working practices in the kitchen is essential. A kitchen has many hazards, including sharp knives, hot ovens and slippery surfaces. Learning how to use equipment correctly, and keeping your work space clear and clean helps to keep you and the people you work with safe.

We have implemented a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points or HACCP booklet in our Hospitality environments which need to be filled out at the end of each practical lesson for safe work practice assurance.

These booklets are a systematic preventive approach to food and environment safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe, and is a design measurement to reduce these risks to a safe level in our school. 

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points or HACCP are identified factors that could impact on design/production decisions. 




Example of our Kitchen HACCP Checklist: 


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