Unit 27 – Understanding Health and Safety in the Business Workplace Risk-assessments for housekeeping in Hilton Hotels P4 M3

Risk assessment – Ahmed Dospatliev




Housekeeping
No Who could be harmed and Risk Recommendation to improve their health and
What are the hazards What are the control measures?
how? Rating safety practice
1 Collecting Brocken or Risk to Staff and Guests  Experienced staff. Medium My recommendations for that hazard are:
cracked glasses or
 Manual Handling training undertaken. 1. Special thick gloves for carrying broken
plates Cuts leading to serious
bleeding and need from  Broken glass etc cleaned up immediately. glasses or plates.
ambulance.  Glass swept up generally not picked up. 2. Special place to put the broken stuff in
the servers.
 Any broken glass placed in separate metal
container.
 1st Aid trained staff available.
 1st Aid kits available.
 Welfare & hand washing facilities readily
available.

2 Work with detergents Risk to Staff and Guests  Experienced staff. Medium My recommendations for that hazard are:
Poisoning, burning the skin
 Manual Handling training undertaken. 1. Masks available for the staff
Excessive use of strong  1st Aid trained staff available. 2. If there is a lot of work to do (cleaning
detergents without gloves  1st Aid kits available. with strong detergents) every 30 minutes
can burn the skin also if the or 1 hour the cleaning person should be
staff work long time  Gloves available
exchanged
without face mask can
damage their lungs