Facilities Operations Management: Statutory Regulations and Health, Safety, and Environmental Measures

This presentation discusses the importance of facilities operations management in coordinating people and assets for effective business operations. It focuses on assessing statutory regulations and health, safety, and environmental measures that must be implemented in the hospitality industry. The presentation also highlights the documentation required for compliance with these regulations and measures.

Facilities
Operations
Management
TASK 2

INTRODUCTION
 Facilities operations management (FOM) is the process of coordinating
people and assets required for the business to operate and carry out
facility in a designed manner.
 It integrates building, personnel, technologies and behavioural sciences
within a business environment and manages their impact on the
organization.
 It is a strategic business procedure for quality business operations as well
as effective and efficient delivery of support services within the
company

AC2.1 Assessing the statutory regulations that will affect facilities
operations in an agreed context
 Statutory regulations and procedures of facility operations in
UK are strict and according to it there must be availability
and implementation of safety and environmental policies or
practices as per the law.
 The processes and operations of Titanic Hotel Liverpool
should be developed according to the obligations and rules
set by the UK government in order to make the functions
smooth. It should take in consideration the health, safety and
environment of customers visiting the firm.

CONTD...
 Attainment of all types of certificates and licenses will
avoid further allegations thereby assisting the staff and
owners the power to run the activities of hotel.
 These regulations ensures the health of customers and
employees are not affected due to the operations carried out
by the company.

CONTD...
 The facilities provided by Titanic Hotel Liverpool are
authenticated for usage and safety and also makes sure that
employees are provided with better remuneration without
any discrimination.
 Laws made for the hospitality industry and management of
Titanic Hotel Liverpool ensures that the facilities manager
and workforce are performing duties and responsibilities
according to the laws laid down by the UK government.

CONTD...
All contacts and facilities must be reliable and genuinely
priced for that the hotel management must decide its
working by falling under the prohibitions and rules set by
the authorities.

AC2.2 Health, safety and environmental measures that must be implemented by a
facilities manager in hospitality industry.
 Legislative policies and social policies are needed to govern
any sector in the country.
 Health, safety and environmental measures has also been
facilitated by legislative policies in many ways. The firm
should maintain and introduce procedures to respond
emergency situations and also prevent or minimize safety
health impacts associated with the workers.

CONTD...
 Development of institutional safety programs,
legislation reviewing, policy recommending, monitoring
compliance health,safety and environmental regulations
are the measures to safeguard them.
 The Titanic Hotel Liverpool considers the health of the
people as they are more concerned and ensures food
provided in the management with precaution.

CONTD.....
 Titanic Hotel Liverpool uses the following measures to
safeguard the health, safety and environmental measures in
the following ways:
 Better and maintained machines
 Training and developing
 Quality checks
 Technology advancement

AC2.3 Discuss the documentation required to account for compliance with
statutory regulations and health, safety and environmental measures.
Documentation is a required proof that every management
systems should follow to ensure documents are prepared.
System documentation ensures the review and
understanding of documents for continuous improvement
and achieving goals of management.

CONTD...
Document the policy- Policy statement should be written and
kept current. This is the driver of the whole system assuring
that it is documented and communicated as a key component
of the overall management system.

CONTD...
Document what regulations apply- Reviewing of legal
applicability of regulations is documented which change the
regulations review, state or other guidelines subscribed and the
listing of these to the operations of the company.

CONTD...
Document structure and responsibilities- Overall program of the
company and individual area procedures or work instructions
are documented.

CONTD.....
 Record keeping and auditing is necessary for proper health
and safety measures to follow.
 Facilities managers must have all kinds of information of the
employees such as age, family, martial status etc. for
statutory regulations.
 This helps in recruiting the accurate staff for right position.

CONTD...
These can be customized by the governments and cultures of
respective country in which the organization operates.
The firms which does not keep any record of such regulations
may be not authorized to conduct business activities.

CONCLUSION
 From this report on facilities operations management it can
be concluded that this process is necessary for managing and
maintaining facilities in an organization.
 It also develops effective systems for information
processing, maintaining communication and identifies the
control systems needed for operations of facilities.
 This assignment also discussed the importance of a facilities
manager who is having responsibilities of managing
operations of a company, towards staff and customers.

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