FOM Task 2: Health, Safety, and Regulations in UK Hospitality

This report analyzes the statutory regulations impacting the operation of UK hospitality businesses, emphasizing the importance of a safe and compliant environment. It details key considerations such as safety policies, licensing for various activities, and regular audits. The report also outlines essential health and safety measures, including pest control, employee health checks, and food quality control. Furthermore, it specifies the required documentation to comply with these regulations, covering licenses for operation, fire control, and food safety. The report underscores the significance of adhering to employment and equality laws, ensuring customer safety, and maintaining up-to-date certifications. It offers valuable insights for facilities managers to ensure their operations meet all legal and safety standards within the UK hospitality sector. The report also provides a comprehensive overview of the Health and Safety Act 1974 and its implications.

FOM
TASK 2

2.1 Different statutory regulations affecting facilities
operation of UK hospitality business
• It is quite strict in UK that appropriate facilities of operations are used.
Hence, certain aspects to be taken into consideration are as follows:
• Ensuring safe environment at the workplace where all the safety related
policies have been taken into consideration.

• Taking permission for various
activities, such as serving
alcohol, using loud music, etc, in
the form of licences and
certificates
• To ensure that internal as well as
external audit is initiated in
timely manner.

• To get certifications related to health and safety of employees and
security of building.
• Training employees, who are involved in any type of hazardous
activities.
• Having appropriate measure to prevent and mitigate fire in the
building. Also, adequate presence of fire extinguishers so as to deal
with any kind of emergencies.

• Effectively applying employment law, equality law and disparity
amongst people, who are being deployed by facilities of operations
provided by hotel.

• Customers must be provided with genuine information with respect
to, safety rules, prices, complaint book and other equipment that are
related to it.
• Getting the equipment safety and security certificate issued.
• Appropriately implementing health and safety act.

AC 2.2 Various health and safety measures that is
required to be implemented by facilities manager
UK have been quite strict regarding laws related to health and
safety measures. It has effectively been able to come up with health and
Safety Act 1974, which is compulsory to be applied by any
organization. Hence, some of the aspects that are related to hotel are
mentioned below:
•Opting for regular pest control so as to prevent cockroaches, termites
and other types of pesticides. It helps in keeping the campus clean and
hygienic.

• Constant updating policies that are related to health and safety of
employees as well as customers.
• To organize camps for health, check-up of employees so that they
can perform their tasks with maximum productivity.
• Fulfilling the compliance of audit so as to ensure quality benchmark
of products and services provided to ultimate customers.

• Assessing loopholes in the followed practices and finding optimum
solution for the same.
• Regularly testing quality of food products and ensure maintaining
hygienic aspects.

AC 2.3 Requirement of documentation to comply
with statutory regulations related to health, safety
and other environmental measures
• It is important for the hotel to have all the documents that helps in
effectively performing operations time to time. Facilities manager is
required to maintain register of documents so as to fulfil all the
statutory compliances in UK. Some of these factors are mentioned
below:
• Licence to operate hotel in property: It is important to gather
licence that whether a hotel can be run in the property or not.

• Other statutory licences: It is important to collect licences related
to, operations of building, fire control and other statutory aspects for
smooth functioning of hotel.

• Other licences and certificates: It is
important to collect certificates with
respect to, type of food and beverages
served. Licence of solely serving
alcohol is also required to be taken by
the hotel. Certificate related to hygiene
and food safety act is also required to
be issued by facilities manager of a
hotel.