Today I’m going to talk to you about smoking during the meal hours. As a cs we are expected to uphold the highest standards of sanitation on the ship. During the meal hours no matter how stressful they may be no matter how long and drawn out it can be at times and even when its so slow you could probably knit a sweater you must not smoke or leave the galley for any reason whatsoever. One may ask why? Why is that a rule? The true full answer is just because your chain of command said so. I would argue that it’s a potential sanitation hazard, however so are bowel movements. And after both a bowel movement and smoking you should be washing your hands anyway. With hot and soapy water for a minimum of 20 seconds (to keep track of time you can sing happy birthday twice in your head). You need to scrub underneath your nails and lather all the way up to your forearm. You will finish by rinsing and drying your hands and forearms with a clean paper towel and if hand sanitizer is available follow up with hand sanitizer. Sources include basic servsafe knowledge from myself Google.
So now that we have realized that sanitation is not really the issue lets look at some other possibilities… if you’re on the smoked deck who is manning the galley? Hmmm..Good question. So the set up for each galley is slightly different and it differs from ship to ship, for the sake of time we will discuss this ship using both galleys as an example. For the main galley, they have one fsa manning the deep sink, two fsa’s manning the chiefs mess, two fsa’s serving food, you have four cook on watch, (one cook seems to have enough time to go to odo2) a galley watch captain and a galley supervisor. For the ward room galley which is a significantly smaller space and requires much less manning; you have three fsa, two cook on watch and a galley supervisor. According to the American cancer society to quote exactly (somewhat fewer than1 in every 5) adults currently smoke cigarettes. So it is...