Leaflet puts risks faced by fast food staff in spotlight


Many young and vulnerable fast food workers are facing a future of ill health and the risk of injury on a daily basis as a result of savage cuts to local authority environmental health resources and officers, say campaigners.


The BFAWU food workers’ Union and the Hazards campaign have produced a joint leaflet highlighting the risks faced by fast food workers at drive- through establishments as part of the TUC’s annual ♥Unions week, running from12-18 February. 


The leaflet aims to help union activists to put pressure on fast food companies to improve the health, safety and welfare of their staff. It highlights hazards including violence, burns, exposure to diesel engine exhaust emissions and suggests solutions. 


It also provides a checklist setting out action to support workers in the fast food sector and contains a hazards form to use to raise issues with the management of fast food outlets and to send to local authority environmental health officers.


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