Restaurant Compliance Pack
Compliance pack for restaurants — front of house and back of house. Slip/trip/fall, burns, knife safety, harassment prevention written to the Illinois restaurant and bar supplement and the California five-employee training rule, BBP for incident response, and EAP including robbery response.
When this template is required
Restaurants face slip, trip and fall, burn, cut and ergonomic injury hazards under OSHA general industry standards and the General Duty Clause, and state harassment prevention duties: Illinois requires annual training of every employer's employees under 775 ILCS 5/2-109(C) and, for a restaurant or bar, a written policy in English and Spanish within the first calendar week plus supplemental industry-specific training every year under 775 ILCS 5/2-110; California requires two hours of supervisory and one hour of nonsupervisory training every two years at five or more employees under Government Code §12950.1. The pack covers occupational safety, emergency response and harassment prevention. Food safety is outside its scope.
Why this template
Front of house + back of house
Not just kitchen burns — front-of-house slips, customer interactions, harassment, emergency response. Both contexts covered.
Illinois restaurant/bar supplement + California 5-employee rule
Illinois alone imposes the restaurant and bar supplement: under 775 ILCS 5/2-110 every restaurant and bar must give each employee a written harassment policy in English and in Spanish within the first calendar week and run supplemental industry-specific training every year, on top of the general annual training every Illinois employer owes under 775 ILCS 5/2-109(C). California Government Code §12950.1 requires any employer with five or more employees to train supervisors for two hours and everyone else for one hour every two years — general employment law, not a restaurant or tipped-employee provision. Both are covered, and the difference is stated rather than blurred.
Kitchen-specific hazards
Burns, cuts, slicers, hot oil, grease fires — practical procedures for actual kitchen hazards.
Robbery response included
Restaurants are common robbery targets. EAP includes robbery procedures: employee safety first, cash handling minimization, post-incident response.
What you receive
- Restaurant Safety Program (slips, burns, cuts, ergonomic)
- BBP procedure (incident-cleanup scope)
- HazCom (cleaning products, pest control)
- Sexual Harassment Policy (model text, English and Spanish)
- Burn safety procedures (kitchen)
- Knife and slicer safety
- EAP (fire, robbery, medical emergency)
- Annual training matrix
How you get it
This document is written and reviewed against the standard it cites, and it is ready now. The download link is emailed as soon as your payment clears.
Revisions included — if something about your operation changes what the document should say, reply to the delivery email and we will amend it.
Who buys this
- Full-service restaurants
- Quick-service / fast-food
- Casual dining chains
- Bars and lounges
- Catering operations
- Hotel restaurants
- Coffee shops
Frequently asked
Does my restaurant need BBP?
Only if you designate someone. The standard covers employees whose assigned duties include cleaning up blood or other potentially infectious material or rendering first aid — in a restaurant that is normally managers, shift leaders and porters, not servers or cooks generally, and not an employee who steps in as a Good Samaritan. Practically every restaurant does designate someone, and once it does it owes a written exposure control plan, hepatitis B vaccination within 10 working days, annual training and the records. The pack includes the exposure determination worksheet that settles the question for your site.
What's the IL restaurant/bar training?
It comes from the Illinois Human Rights Act, 775 ILCS 5/2-110 — not the Workplace Transparency Act, which is contract law governing what an employer may require an employee to sign and imposes no training duty. Every restaurant and bar must give each employee a written sexual harassment prevention policy, in English and in Spanish, within the employee's first calendar week, and must provide supplemental industry-specific training at least once a year to all employees regardless of employment classification — on top of the general annual training every Illinois employer owes under 775 ILCS 5/2-109(C). The supplement must cover specific conduct, activities or videos related to the restaurant or bar industry; an explanation of manager liability and responsibility under the law; and English and Spanish language options.
Does this cover food safety / FDA Food Code?
No — food safety is a separate regulatory domain (FDA Food Code, state/local health department). The pack covers occupational safety, harassment, emergency response. Food safety needs its own program (ServSafe etc.).
What about CA SB 553?
It is a requirement, not an add-on to consider. California Labor Code §6401.9 requires almost every employer, with no headcount threshold, to establish, implement and maintain a written Workplace Violence Prevention Plan accessible to employees at all times, keep a violent incident log, train employees, and review the plan at least annually and after each incident. The only exemption that could arguably reach a restaurant covers places of employment with fewer than 10 employees present at any time that are not accessible to the public — a dining room is accessible to the public, so every California restaurant is covered. This pack's robbery and customer-violence procedures support that plan; they do not satisfy it, and a California restaurant needs the dedicated CA WVPP product as well.