Management and Safety in Catering Premises

An introduction to managing safety in catering premises, with more details in Related Pages.

For advice on other management issues including employment, tax and trading standards law, download or order the Food Standards Agency booklet Starting Up – Your First Steps to Running a Catering Business.

Food Safety

You must put in place food safety management procedures and keep up-to-date records relating to your procedures. Safer Food, Better Business Packs are available to help you do this.

If you change the type of food you produce or how you work, you must review these procedures. Go to Managing Food Safety to find out more.

In Eastbourne you must register your premises for food safety with the council's Environmental Health service using the form below.

Health and Safety

You must work in a way that protects the health and safety of your employees and other people who might be affected by what you do.

If you have five or more employees, you must have a written health and safety policy, which describes your health and safety arrangements. Go to Getting Started on Health and Safety to find out more.

Catering premises and food shops who employ anyone in Eastbourne must register for health and safety with Environmental Health.

Fire Safety

You must carry out a fire risk assessment at your premises and take fire safety precautions to help protect you, your staff and customers.

The type of precautions you must have will depend on a number of things, such as the size of your premises.

Other Requirements

All enclosed public places and workplaces must be smokefree. You must display 'no smoking' signs, take reasonable steps to ensure that staff and customers are aware, and ensure that no one smokes in your premises.

To protect public safety, you must have licences for certain activities, such as selling or supplying alcohol, providing entertainment or late night refreshment - selling hot food between 11pm and 5am.