Yorkshire Firm Offers Simple Affordable Gas Safe Solution For Public and Commercial Kitchens

July 16, 2012 - PRLog -- Increasing numbers of commercial kitchens in the United Kingdom are being forced into temporary closure for non-compliance with new Health and Safety regulations. Fox Catering Equipment is providing a one stop shop for quick service to alleviate the issue.
Ben Senior, Managing Director at Fox Catering Equipment near Sheffield, explained how this may come as a shock to some commercial kitchen owners. “The typical scenario is that a Gas Safe engineer attends site to install a new piece of gas equipment and instead issues a forced closure notice of the kitchen for not observing the correct Health and Safety regulations.”

“The most significant regulation normally in breach is the lack of gas interlock system. Others can be inadequate overhang of the extraction canopy itself, insufficient air being extracted, insufficient replacement air being supplied or even the build-up of carbon dioxide.”

A Gas Interlock System is a safety device that is an essential component in the commercial kitchen ventilation system. Its function is to prevent gas being used unless the ventilation systems are working correctly by closing off the gas supply automatically when the fans are turned off or fail.

The regulations can be difficult for the non-technical to understand with a range of official standards that need to be satisfied, for example DW172, DW144 & BS 1673 for the canopies and BS6173 for the gas safety equipment.

As Ben Senior continued, “For a kitchen manager with limited knowledge of this side of the industry the task of coordinating and arranging these works independently would be daunting to say the least.”

Fox Catering Equipment assembles a team of qualified, expert engineers from varied catering industry backgrounds to ensure all compliance is adhered to in a quick, efficient and cost effective way.

Kitchen managers can find out more about making sure their commercial kitchen is both safe and compliant at http://foxcateringequipment.co.uk/catering-equipment-proj... and read through case studies that show how upgrading equipment to meet the new standards can be a relatively simple and affordable process.

For further information about this press release, please contact: Ben Senior

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