Health and Safety for Hotels & Guest Houses

As a hotel or guesthouse owner or manager, people are your business. Your customers look to you for a place to relax, to eat, to sleep and to be at ease after the hustle and bustle of the day. Not only that, but they also look to your establishment to provide the level of security and safety that they want in order to feel sure that their stay with you will be under the best conditions.

Health and safety is the thread that runs through the whole of your organisation. How good your health and safety is will determine how good you are in so many other things – from the warmth of your receptionist’s smile to the comments that your guests and clients leave in your guest book.

Because when your staff understand, appreciate and act according to health and safety regulations, that care and attention permeates through into how they interact with your clients and ultimately to how well your business does.

ProActive Health & Safety consultants are experienced in handling health and safety to both ensure legal compliance and to contribute positively to your bottom line. Our teams that are specialised in the hotels and guesthouse sector have worked with numerous establishments whose business objectives are similar to yours and who are also subject to the same health and safety regulations.

We also understand that running a hotel or a guesthouse takes a significant amount of time and energy, and that one of the immediate benefits that we can bring is to give you back that time so that you can use it for other things.

While we want health and safety to become a real asset for you, we also keep our eye firmly on the reduction of risk and accidents. It is estimated that 1.7 million UK residents are employed by hotels and guesthouses. Between people working in this sector and their customers, there are at least 1600 serious accidents reported each year to insurance companies.

It’s no wonder that the government puts in place measures such as the Food and Safety Act of 1990 and Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974, and demands that hotels and guesthouses comply with both.

All this, on top of a busy day running your hotel and keeping your customers satisfied? Don’t worry. ProActive Health & Safety has cost-effective solutions to help you, whether you are running a country guesthouse with a modest staff, or a large, multi-storey hotel in a busy metropolis.

We also understand how to apply our knowledge and competence to such different cases, from employees working long shifts by themselves to fire risk assessment where hundreds of people may be affected at the same instant.

Our health and safety consultants are there for you when you need them. You can have full time, part-time or “as needed” assistance.  Among the different items that we are typically called to work on are: 
 

• Fire risk assessment
• Food hygiene training
• Disability access
• Control of contractors when repairs are being done
• Manual handling training
• HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) compliance
• All risk assessments
• Portable appliance testing
• Lone working risk assessment 

We use our expert knowledge to audit your current situation, plan the appropriate measures with you, implement them and then check that the results are what you need. As we plan and put it in place with you, we’ll look for the different ways that you can maximise your return on investment and use health and safety as a real advantage as well.

Talking about it is good. But putting it into action for you is even better. If you’d like to phone us now on 0161 935 8282, we can tell you more about how the specific application of the actions above can help you in your hotel or guest house.