A UK hospital who issued a "toast ban" to nurses and other staff

A toast ban was issued at a hospital in the UK, complaints are spurting out by nurses and other staff.

This ban was for some reason only applied to orthopedic staff, and the toaster was removed from their staff kitchen. The management side explains why it is "for health and safety", but I strong protests that the nurse is not content that can be convinced at all.

The content of the opinion which the nurse was hotly opposed to the ban toast prohibition and the circumstances of the things are as follows.This is Gloucestershire | Cheltenham Hospital nurse hits out at toaster ban

The toast ban was laid at Gloucestershire Hospital in Cheltenham, England, and officials who are unable to eat toast at break time are dissatisfied.

Because the fire alarm of the orthopedic staff's kitchen worked many times, the management side removed the toaster from the kitchen, and the staff members belonging to orthopedic surgery seemed to have been told in virtually "toast bans" It seems that it has become a state.

Ricky Newton, an orthopedic nurse who is also concurrently serving as a confirmed role for the fire base, said that this ban was issued in consideration of "health and safety" against this way of management Although it is quite outrageous and shows the actual situation that the upper level neglects the staff, I have worked at this hospital for many years, but the fact that a fire with a toaster was the source of fire occurred There is no objection. "

Ricky Newton nurse holding a toaster in the hands to protest hotly.


There are other coffee makers and refrigerators in the kitchen for staff, and staff members who meet hunger by eating toast between work shifts are not limited to orthopedic surgeons and it is said that they exist in a reasonable proportion. It seems that the officials of other departments who saw the treatment received by the orthopedic staff at this time sought to sneak out so that their toaster would not be removed.

"There is always someone coming in and out of the kitchen and if there is something like a fire it will only be necessary to extinguish the fire before spreading.And it is true that only the orthopedic toaster has been removed I suffer, "Newton stated to disagree against the current ban, but from the hospital side I could not get a response.