HOW TO ADAPT HYGIENE AND SANITARY MEASURES IN YOUR HOTEL AFTER THE PANDEMIC

HOW TO ADAPT HYGIENE AND SANITARY MEASURES IN YOUR HOTEL AFTER THE PANDEMIC

There is no doubt that compliance with hygiene and sanitary standards will be the first selection criterion for guests of your hotel, after its reopening. The Covid-19 health crisis is forcing all hoteliers to completely rethink their way of working with regard to the new necessary hygiene standards.

  According to the statistical study group and the specialist firm In Melbourne, the recovery will first benefit the budget hotel industry, but a return to the level of 2019 is not expected before 2022. No one knows precisely the impact of Covid-19 on the tourism sector to date, and hoteliers will be set at the end of May on when they can open their establishments again. 

However, ‌psychological reluctance will make up major obstacles to the resumption of activity. In order to overcome them, it is necessary to work upstream of the reopening on the adaptation of hygiene rules. Your ability to reassure customers will be decisive in filling your establishment when it reopens. How to achieve it? Let’s discover together a concrete and immediately applicable protocol to adapt the hygiene and sanitary measures in your hotel without delay.

 KITCHEN CLEANING PLAN

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 STEP #1: PREPARE YOUR CART

 

Besides the usual items placed on your trolley, it is essential to add protective masks, hydroalcoholic gel and disinfectant. Remember that the trolley must always remain outside each room.

 

STEP #2: CLEAR THE ROOM BEFORE CLEANING AND DISINFECTION

 Before cleaning the room, it is essential to turn off the heating, and the air conditioning and ventilate the room for the duration of the intervention. Air renewal is essential to limit the risk of spreading the virus.

 It is then necessary to clear the room of all potentially contaminating waste (trash and other usual waste). Naturally, they must be handled systematically with gloves, and with no contact with the skin. Clean laundry should never come into contact with dirty laundry on the trolley. In the same way, you must change your pair of gloves when you are about to handle clean products. The aim is to create two circuits, a “dirty” and a “clean”, complete hermetic in order to guarantee effectiveness.

 

STEP #3: CLEAN AND DISINFECT THE KEY STEP

 

The first step is to dust the furniture (desk, tables and bedside tables, headboards and footboards, armchairs, chairs and stools, lamps, radiators, etc.), then clean the windows.

Throughout the professional cleaning phase, be sure to wear household gloves for handling products and objects in the room.

Then apply the disinfectant throughout the room, and let it act for about fifteen minutes. We recommend you use a disinfectant as a spray or a cloth. Insist on contact areas, such as door handles, light switches, telephone receivers, remote controls, etc.

 STEP #4: PREPARE THE ROOM AGAIN FOR THE NEXT GUEST

 You can then drop off clean linen and new toiletries. Finish by vacuuming the floor of the room, and using a shampooer in the presence of carpet. Damp sweeping with a disinfectant product is preferable to dry sweeping.

You can now close the windows, and turn on the heating or the air conditioning again without retracing your steps.

 STEP #5: FOLLOW THE CORRECT APPLICATION OF THE PROTOCOL AND INFORM CUSTOMERS

 To ensure that no room has been insufficiently cleaned, create practical guides for your cleaning teams to follow step by step. Also, do not forget to organize their schedule differently and to make their schedule more flexible.

 

Finally, don’t forget to communicate on social networks and within your establishment about the additional health measures in force. Each customer must play a role in their own protection by sorting dirty laundry in a dedicated container, or by opening the windows as soon as they leave, for example.

Before changing rooms, professional cleaning staff must wash their hands with water, soap or hydroalcoholic gel.

  All of these hygiene rules are essential to avoid cross-contamination between staff and customers. It is about protecting the health of all your teams, as well as your customers. The organization is a keyword in the renewal of your hygiene measures, as the reopening of your hotel approaches.