How safe are your grease filters?
Posted on: 12 April 2021
How safe is your kitchen? If you manage a commercial kitchen of any type, you will be aware of many safety risks. You must ensure that knives and other sharp implements are stored carefully. You must quickly clean away any spills or breakages that could present a hazard, and you must have your electrical supplies regularly to ensure that they are safe. These are all ways to improve safety in a commercial kitchen, but there is still more you can do. One important safety issue that frequently gets overlooked is the condition of your kitchen exhaust system.
Have you checked your grease filters?
Cooking fumes can be a problem in a busy kitchen, and having a working exhaust system is often vital to maintaining a pleasant working environment. In a kitchen, the fumes will contain a significant amount of vaporized grease, so you must fit grease filters over your air ducts to prevent the grease from entering the exhaust ducts. You might not realize it, but grease coating an exhaust system can present a fire risk, particularly, when the duct is above a hot oven, so you must check that your grease filters are operating effectively.
Grease filter cleaning
Installing a grease filter is good, but unless you arrange for regular grease filter cleaning, it will soon become ineffective. A clean grease filter should stop around 80% of the grease reaching the exhaust duct, but once the filter has become saturated, its effectiveness will be greatly reduced, and the danger of trapped grease causing a flash fire will start to rise. Arranging for a grease filter cleaning company to call is the best way to prevent a fire and protect your employees and your premises. A professional grease filter cleaning company will know when the filter can be replaced and when it can be cleaned and refitted.
Arranging for grease filter cleaning
If you have never had your grease filters cleaned, or if you are not sure what is involved, you must call a reputable grease filter cleaning company. Look for a company that operates in your local area and has the skills and expertise to clean your filters quickly and effectively. Most companies will be happy to set up a schedule with you that allows them to clean or replace your grease filters regularly, so you can be confident that the amount of grease on your filters is kept low and the risk of a fire starting is minimal.
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