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EDUCATION REQUIREMENT FOR A HOUSEKEEPER
Thursday, May 31, 2007

A formal education is not required to become a housekeeper, although employers prefer to hire people who have a high school education. Most hotels and motels provide on-the-job training. Hotel housekeepers must be able to work quickly and efficiently without invading their guests' privacy and should have a neat, clean appearance.


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Housekeeping Basics


Hotel Housekeeping DepartmentThis department is instrumental in ensuring the cleanliness of the hotel and maintaining facilities in guestrooms, offices and public areas to provide maximum guest satisfaction.

Environmental Impacts
To maintain the cleanliness in the hotel, housekeeping department consumes different type of cleaning agents, most of them may not be environmental friendly in nature and also contributes a significant amount of soiled linen for laundry. Some of the significant environmental aspects caused due to housekeeping operations in the hotel are listed below.

Significant Environmental Aspects and Impacts – Housekeeping Department

Various activities in Housekeeping

Aspects

Environmental Impact

Significant Aspect

Cleaning of guest rooms, public areas, carpets, furniture, metal wares etc

Generation of solid waste, Consumption of hazardous chemicals as a cleaning agents

Land pollution

Release of non biodegradable chemicals

Replenishing the guest supplies in the rooms

Generation of used plastic bottles, soaps and soiled linen

Land pollution

Plastic waste


Benchmark for Housekeeping Department

This benchmarking tool will help the hotel to periodically monitor and measure the amount of biodegradable and non-biodegradable solid waste generated. This will lead to efficient management of solid waste (biodegradable can be treated and others can be sent for recycle, reuse, recover etc) to reduce the adverse environmental impacts. This tool can also lead to take decisions on the reduction of soiled linen generation. The performance indicators for housekeeping department is

  • Soiled linen generated (Kg/occupied room/day)
  • Solid waste (gm/occupied room/day)

The above indicators are related to the good practices to enhance their energy and environment performance.

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Taj Malabar - seeking Housekeeping Staff
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Taj Malabar is looking for House Keeping Team Members & Team Leaders (supervisors)

Applications are now invited for the position of Guest Services Associate & Guest Services Supervisor

To apply, Click here
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What do Hotel House Keepers Do?

Hotel housekeepers clean the guestrooms and public areas of hotels, motels, and other kinds of lodgings.

They are also called roomkeepers, room attendants, room cleaners, or maids.

You see them pushing a trolley from room to room, pushing a cart filled with cleaning supplies as well as fresh sheets and towels, and stocks of plastic shower caps, shoe shine sponges, and little sewing kits.

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Method Microfiber Cleaning Cloths

Description

  • 4 different cloths are paired with Method surface sprays.
  • Method Microfiber Cloths are designed for wood, glass, granite, and stainless steel.
  • Method Microfiber Cloths retail for around $5.00 each.

    The Bottom Line

    Trust Method to convince us to throw in the towel, along with our rags, cloths, sponges and more. Method Microfiber cleaning cloths are fabulous at grabbing and trapping dust, dirt, and debris without scratching surfaces. Although they often won't need any cleaning solution, they are specially formulated and paired with Method surface sprays to clean glass and mirrors, granite, wood, and stainless steel. These cloths do a great job at cleaning and don't cost an arm and a leg.
    Pros
    • Method Microfiber Cloths trap dust and dirt without spilling it back into the air.
    • Method Microfiber Cloths actually become more effective with age.
    • There are 4 different Method Microfiber Cloths to clean glass, granite, wood, and stainless steel.
    • Method Microfiber Cloths are color coded with cleaning spray formulas or can be used dry.
    Cons
    • Method Microfiber Cloths won't be as useful on jobs where you need a disposable cloth.

Guide Review - Method Microfiber Cleaning Cloths

Method has four Microfiber Cleaning Cloths it thinks can cut your cleaning time. There is a bright blue one paired with Method's Mint Window Wash, one steely gray cloth paired with Method's Stainless Steel Cleaner, one a rich brown paired with Method's Wood For Good Cleaner, and the last a soft gray paired with Method's Daily Granite Spray.

Now, I love a good Microfiber cloth, and these are great. The fibers are split 16 times and continue to split when you wash them. They hold quite a bit of liquid, which is great when you want to buff a stainless steel sink, granite countertop, wooden hutch, or glass door without leaving streaks or cleanser residue. These cloths really hold their dust and dirt. My children were amazed to see dust sticking to the cloth, and yet when the microfiber cloth was shaken, the dust remained stuck fast.

Microfiber cloths are a great tool to cut cleaning time and effort, and Method has introduced some fantastic ones for us to use.

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