For coffee drinkers
Look Under the Counter
If there is no valid certificate, you are trusting a busy owner with your physical safety for the sake of a £3.50 coffee.
Just drinking the coffee? Ask to see the certificate. One question, and you will know how the place is run.
£265
what compliance costs the café
48 hrs
from visit to certificate
10 L
typical boiler under pressure
What is actually true
The fear is real.
So are the numbers.
An ad that overstates the risk is worthless, because the first engineer who reads it stops believing the rest. These are the facts behind the headline — nothing added for effect.
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Every workplace machine needs a Written Scheme of Examination and periodic examination by a competent person.
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It is the same legal duty whether the machine is in a café, a hotel, an office or a staff canteen.
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The certificate is not a badge of quality. It is the proof someone checked.
You cannot see the boiler. You can ask to see the paper that says somebody looked at it.
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PSSR.uk is a booking network. We connect coffee businesses with independent, CoffeeSafe-registered engineers; the engineer who attends carries out and certifies the examination in their own right. Prices shown are + VAT and are agreed before anyone travels.