Telling your 'colleague' what they are doing wrong

Explaining why it is wrong

Explain how the food safety hazard should be removed or minimized

Role play

Injury: You are to pretend that you are cutting some food. You are to act out cutting your hand on the knife. You should drop the knife on the cutting board, grab a tea towel and wrap it around your hand. After a short moment you should comment that there was more blood than you expected, but that it's stopped bleeding quickly.

Put the cloth down on the food preparation area, right near where the food is meant to be. Pick up the knife and continue to cut up the food as though nothing happened.

The student is required to explain that you should have disposed of the food item, disposed of the tea towel, cleaned and sterilised your cut and put on a bandage/dressing, washed the knife and put it in the dishwasher, then cleaned and sterilised the work area. They may also refer to completing an injury report form, but reference to this is not required.

During the discussion with their 'supervisor', the student should refer to procedures related to accident and injuries in the workplace - who staff need to report to, what they need to do to avoid contaminating the area with any blood or other bodily fluids if the event of an injury/accident, etc. The student should identify that there is a risk of contamination from blood on the knife and blood on the tea towel.