Are you a hotel manager?
In search of a health and safety risk assessment tailored to your activity?
Do you need a pre-filled assessment to save you hours of work?
Want to be in compliance with safety regulations?
 
Our health and safety risk assessment is designed to meet your needs with:
→ A professional risk assessment totally specific to the hotel industry.
→ Risk prevention proposals dedicated to the hotel industry.
→ Integration of risks linked to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.
 
All this in an easily editable Excel format, allowing you to make personalized updates on your own.
 
FEATURES OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
 
This 5-page Excel file includes:
A Cover Page
A Company Information page
A presentation of the Risk Assessment Methodology used.
An occupational risks assessment tailored to your sector of activity.
A risk prevention schedule with all the different safety measures.

It contains 34 occupational risk situations classified into 5 work units:
Customer reception
Room tidying and cleaning
Linen bleaching
Working environment
Work premises
 
☑ Complies with the employer's obligation to assess risks
(Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999)
☑ Adheres to the General Principles of Prevention
(Schedule 1 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999)
☑ Takes into account good practice and pitfalls in risk assessment
(Report RR151 from the Health and Safety Executive)
 
EXCERPTS FROM THE HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
 
The danger of manual handling for hotel receptionists: On a daily basis, hotel receptionists are required to perform a variety of baggage handling tasks. This manual handling is an integral part of the job, not least because hotel guests may include the elderly and disabled, whose luggage must be carried to the room. Repeated manual handling can cause physical damage. The risks involved depend on the weight of the luggage to be moved (a suitcase can weigh up to 25kg), as well as the distance to be covered, and the difficulty of access: steps, slopes, etc. In addition to these two parameters, the way in which loads are carried (good / bad handling postures) will have a major influence on the occurrence of both short-term and long-term damage. Like all manual handling operations, baggage handling is responsible for back and muscle pain in the short term. Over the long term, baggage handling is responsible for Musculoskeletal Disorders of the upper limbs: shoulder tendinopathy, elbow epicondylitis, carpal tunnel syndrome of the wrists, etc.
 
The danger of awkward postures for hotel room staff: Room staff are required to adopt a variety of awkward postures during cleaning operations. The most common awkward postures adopted by room staff are: back bent forward (e.g.: picking up from the floor), arms stretched forward or in the air (e.g.: dusting shelves). Twisting the torso to clean certain hard-to-reach areas is also an awkward posture. The adoption of awkward postures is mainly caused by cleaning hard-to-reach areas. However, some of these awkward postures can be avoided by investing in more ergonomic equipment (e.g. a sweeper with a long-handled shovel avoids the need to kneel/bend). The longer a person has to adopt a constraining posture, the greater the risks involved. In the short term, the adoption of awkward postures is likely to generate pain, mainly in the muscles and/or joints. In the long term, restrictive postures can lead to various musculoskeletal disorders, notably tendinopathy (in the tendons) and arthropathy (in the joints).
 
The danger of falling from heights: Regardless of the position they occupy within the hotel, employees may need, at one time or another, to access a space located at a height: a shelf, a piece of furniture, etc. Some of these spaces located at heights may be inaccessible from the ground, particularly for short people. Some of these high spaces may be inaccessible from the ground, especially for people of short stature. If this is the case, people will be working at heights from which they may fall, causing serious injury. The risk of falling from heights is particularly high when working at heights that have not been designed for the purpose, such as traditional furniture like tables and chairs. Possible damage caused by falls from height includes impact with the floor, furniture, an object located below, or a person present in the hotel (colleague/customer). This can result in bruising, fractures, internal and/or external bleeding, head trauma, etc.
 
 
A GUARANTEE OF THE QUALITY OF OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
_ We're registered as Professional Risk Prevention Consultants.
_ Our team comprises graduate safety engineers.
_ Our documents are routinely checked by safety inspectors.
_ We frequently update our Occupational Risk Assessments.
 
RESOURCES 
_ "Occupations and Workplaces: Hotel Housekeeping" by Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.