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Risk Factors in Housekeeping : Report

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Risk Factors in Housekeeping : Report

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Table of ContentsB- ACCOMMODATION:...............................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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B- ACCOMMODATION:Housekeeping is operational department in hotels who provides facilities to customer 24hours, they provide services for cleaning, serving and maintain public area back area, foods,beverages and services such as laundry, club spa as per customer demand (Chiang and Liu,2017). They are also clean lobby area, lifts, parking, swimming pool, coffee shop, toilets. Theyalso washing floors, removing stains. They keep up the hotel with classy interior decoration. Allthese types of work housekeepers can doing in hotels.There is huge load on the hotel housekeeping staff, they worked on various levels such assupervisory level, operational level(Lie,2015).The housekeeping creates the first impression about the hotels in guest minds, we can saythat housekeeping is the heart of the hotels business. Risk factors in housekeeping: The main risk for housekeeping are:1.Heavy physical worked load, which are high risk for back injuries.2.Force-full upper limb motion, which are high risk for neck, shoulder and arms injuries.The housekeeping worked every three seconds while cleaning a room, it’s very physicallydemanding and tiring.Sometime workers get going to injuries but they still worked. Its very harm-full for workers onhotel.Hazards for housekeepers: Following are the hazards for housekeepers: 1. Exposure to chemicals in cleaningproducts, including skin reactions or respiratory illnesses, 2. Exposure to biological infectiousdiseases from soiled linens, uncapped needle and/or bodily fluids, 3. Slips trips and falls, 4.fatigue and other health problems from shift work or long hour works, 5. Working alone, 6.Manual handling of equipment - vacuums, carts (Leggett, 2016. ).Ways to reduce risk and hazards for housekeepers:Hotels are designed for comfort for guests and housekeepers, housekeepers are not guestsbut they still worked there, so we fully responsible to their comfort. So they can workcomfortably without any hazards (Delp and Riley, 2015). Housekeepers wear proper protectivecleaning equipment when handling cleaning products, wash hands time to time, always wearpersonal equipment for the task, wearing shoes with non-skid soles, knowing emergency contact
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