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BFFF’S HEALTH & SAFETY EXPERT GROUP MEETS AND SHARES BEST PRACTICE

The British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) Health & Safety Expert Group recently met for the first meeting of 2026.The group helps deliver best practice across frozen and the wider food and drink industry.

In attendance were BFFF members GXO, QK Coldstores, COOK, Sysco GB, Bidfood, StoreLogs, Holdsworth Foods, FareShare, Heron Foods.

Topics discussed this time were:

  • Member updates,
  • Accident Statistic Benchmarking group for producers/retailers
  • Review of current BFFF Health Surveillance PA assured Coldstore guidance
  • BS30480 – Suicide in the workplace – intervention and support
  • Violence and aggression in retail
  • In house drugs and alcohol testing trials
  • Primary authority update (buy time from the experts)
  • BFFF member queries
  • Announcement of the date for the next H&S Conference 17th September 2026

Our guest speakers were Robert Sugar and Andrew King from Darkonium AI to demonstrate a plethora of applications for H&S in the coldstore environment and workplace including:

  • Vehicle and pedestrian separation
  • Heat emissions from parts of the body
  • Vital monitoring
  • Cold dose optimisation
  • Preventing slips and trips
  • Detecting falls
  • Air quality
  • Monitoring manual handling
  • Warehouse shelf loading capacity
  • Employee fatigue
  • Emergency evacuation

The technology also has other business benefits such as efficiencies. We would like to thank all that attended for their valuable contributions.

To find out more about the work carried out by the BFFF Health & Safety group please contact: simonbrentnall@bfff.co.uk

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