Life Safety
Needed for every guest related electronic key card issuance transaction.
What is and an ID?
To be conducted with hotel associate participation and recorded quarterly in-house via a checklist.
What are Quarterly Fire Drills?
These should be read to make sure the proper procedures are completed on building equipment.
What are Equipment/Manufacturer Manuals?
Linen inventory should be completed this often.
What is monthly?
Fire pump churn/run test should be completed this often.
What is weekly?
A safety procedure used at our properties that prevents workers from being exposed to hazardous energy from machinery and equipment.
When a fire system is impaired and inoperable in certain areas, this action needs completed and document filled out.
What is a Fire Watch and Log sheet?
Need to be PM'd quarterly to ensure proper product quality from a brand and Commonwealth perspective.
What are Guest Room PM's?
Guest rooms should be deep cleaned this often.
What is quarterly?
The Emergency Utility Shut Off locations for each property are listed in their Emergency Management Manual in this section.
What is Section 18?
These should be located in the following locations and should be complete: Front Desk, Maintenance, Housekeeping, Pool, and Kitchen.
*Not having these could result in fines of up to $15,625 per violation/occurrence.*
What are Safety Data Sheets?
The final drain point for your dry sprinkler system that needs to be checked and drained weekly from OCT to MAR.
What are drip drums?
The measuring stick to gauge hotel wide engagement in the Preventative Maintenance Program. Rated based on how many are entered in the system.
What are work orders or guest requests?
Mattress rotations should be completed this often.
Hotel generators are typically used to back up these systems.
What are Life Safety systems and elevators?
Created to assist properties with proper and standardized reactions to emergency events. It should give our properties the information needed to protect and limit loss to our owners’ assets, our guests, and associates.
What is the Emergency Management Manual?
When a sprinkler head opens whether by fire or accident, a _______ activates and notifies the fire alarm panel.
What is a flow switch?
The number of rooms to be PM'd a day considering a 5 day workweek to achieve 100% rooms PM'd by end of the quarter at a 100 room hotel.
What is 2 (1.67) Rooms per day?
(100 rooms / 60 working days)
_______ of house should be as clean as ______ of house.
What is back and front of house?
Smoke detectors are referred to as _______ or ________ based on if they report back to the fire panel or are simply local sound producing.
What is addressable or non-addressable?
People can catch this disease/illness by inhaling small droplets of water, suspended in the air, containing this bacteria. Certain conditions – apart from water temperature – encourage growth, such as slow-moving or stagnant water, contaminated water storage tanks or pipework where the presence of sludge, rust, scale, or fouling provides nutrients for growth. It is a potentially fatal form of pneumonia, and everyone is susceptible to infection. However, some people are at higher risk, including people over 45 years of age; smokers and heavy drinkers; people suffering from chronic respiratory or kidney disease; and anyone with an impaired immune system.
What is Legionnaires disease or Legionella bacteria?
Storage items must be ___" below sprinkler heads and ____" from electrical switchgear.
What are 18" and 36"?
The most common cause of water waste in guest rooms.
What are loose/broken toilet flappers?
Frequency of all floored areas to be cleaned as per our Floor Care Program.
What is annually?
The main priority of GM Weekly Walks and your perspective going into the walk.
What is to "inspect what you expect"?