Clean catering : a handbook on premises, equipment, and practices for the promotion of hygiene in catering establishments.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Health.
Date:
1963
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Clean catering : a handbook on premises, equipment, and practices for the promotion of hygiene in catering establishments. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the best type of flooring is one which offers a complete unbroken surface. If this is not available, any jointed floor should have the joints most carefully made. Dining rooms. The type of floor and floor covering must be largely dictated by the class of trade but here, in general, thermoplastic tiles are among the most suitable materials. Rubber tiles and sheet secured with adhesive, or good quality cork lino also give good service. Carpets and mats are laid in many establishments and it is important that these should be laid on a good floor surface and not used to cover poor flooring. Carpets and mats must be thoroughly and regularly cleaned by vacuum or shampoo methods. (b) Walls The essential requirements are that the walls should be substantial, durable, smooth, impervious and washable. In order to prevent the accumulation of unnoticed dirt and to provide agreeable surroundings for the staff, they should be light-coloured. For ease in cleaning they should be rounded at the junctions with walls and ceilings. In the working premises the walls should be as free as posible from ledges, projections or ornamentations, all of which collect dust and make it more difficult to keep the premises clean; in the dining-rooms some ornament may be permissible, but tastes and practical considerations alike favour simplicity. Walls which are intended primarily as partitions and which carry little or no weight can be constructed with ready made light metal prefabricated sections now widely available. An economical method of partitioning is based on a wooden frame faced with carefully jointed plaster board, plastic faced impervious hardboard or one of the adhesive wall cover material which have been developed in recent years. Matt surface hardboard can be the base for small ceramic tiles which cover limited areas and which are held in position by special purpose designed adhesives usually sold with the ceramics. Stain- less metal sheet can also be used to cover a wooden frame but if this is done the sheet should conform to British Standard 1470: 1955.NS4, NS5 and NS6. Unalloyed aluminium anodised in accordance with British Standard 1615: 1958 has also given good results where some “ wet” work is carried out. Partitions of this type should be single skinned and not hollow. Particularly suitable where alterations are intended to be semi-permanent or where changes are contemplated after a study of the most efficient work flow zoning are partition panels of compressed laminated plasticised faced sheet covering a honey-comb core. This is erected by running the panels into metal chase railways screwed to the ceiling and into similar metal chase holders on end walls and floors. Good partitions can also be erected from breeze blocks tiled or faced, foamed concrete, glassfibre with hardboard facing and various self standing plaster boards of suitable thickness between + inch and two inches. Such partition walls as are described above can be finished to a fine, hard, clean surface which will take all the normal wall finishes and is easily cleaned. They will support electric light fittings, but they are not suitable for bearing equipment which weighs more than a few pounds or which exerts any pull on the wall. ; The best finish for walls in kitchens and wet preparation rooms is still well jointed 6in. by 6in. ceramic tiles. Ceramic tiles for use with special ad- hesives and fine grouting are now available in that size and in 41in. by 44in.