Two Ways to Guarantee Good Housekeeping Result

Good housekeeping doesn’t just happen. You have to plan for it and make sure everybody shoulders his or her responsibility.

It’s your responsibility to:

• Identify OSHA’s workplace housekeeping requirements
• Implement the housekeeping program
• Make sure supervisors and employees understand the importance of good housekeeping
• Arrange for training to teach employees proper housekeeping procedures
• Set up housekeeping schedules
• Ensure that all housekeeping policies and procedures are enforced

Of course, some of your responsibility may be delegated to other personnel, including your own staff and department managers.

Supervisors are responsible for:

• Conducting regular safety inspections of work areas and operations
• Assigning and explaining housekeeping tasks
• Conducting housekeeping training (unless your department handles this)
• Ensuring  that employees follow safety procedures and policies related to housekeeping requirements
• Reporting work area hazards and following up to make sure that they are corrected

Employees must:

• Follow housekeeping procedures and the instructions of their supervisor
• Perform housekeeping tasks as assigned and according to the schedule
• Report any unsafe or hazardous conditions or acts that may cause injury to either themselves or any other employees
• Keep work areas uncluttered, orderly, sanitary, and free of other hazards that could result in personal injury or injury to others

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Inspections

The back end of assigning responsibilities is checking to make sure they have been carried out. Housekeeping requirements must be monitored to ensure a high standard of sanitation and safety in all work areas, as well as to identify deficiencies. That’s the job of inspections.

For efficient and purposeful inspections, develop inspection schedules and checklists for the entire workplace as well as each work area. Work area checklists should focus on specific hazards or processes that differ from those found in the facility as a whole.

Frequency of Inspections

The frequency of inspections for each work area will be determined by identification of hazards and hazard control recommendations from:

• Hazard assessments
• Deficiencies identified in previous inspections
• Frequency of changes in work processes
• Any other factors that may affect compliance with housekeeping requirements and policies

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Good Housekeeping: A Good Training Topic!

To ensure an orderly, clean, and safe workplace, you have to train employees in good housekeeping or it probably won’t be handled the way you need it to. That’s where BLR’s Employee Training Center can help. We have training programs that cover over 60 different training topics, including good housekeeping.

Unlike many training solutions available on the market today, the Employee Training Center courses are routinely reviewed and updated to reflect changes in federal regulations or best practices. Each training course is developed by BLR lawyers, industry experts, and instructional designers who have experience across a wealth of industries, topics, and compliance areas.

Courses keep participants interested with engaging audio, built-in exercises, and key points to remember. At the completion of every course, individuals take a quiz designed to test for competency in all the course material presented. Quiz results and course completion times are automatically recorded.

Every course can be tailored with supporting and custom documents. BLR provides supporting documents for courses that include complete slide show notes and the answer key for the included quiz. As the administrator, you have the option of displaying uploaded documents and requiring review before the session begins. This is especially useful for company policies or worksite-specific information. Supporting materials can be added, edited, or removed at any time.

With only a few minutes’ setup, you company will have a complete Web-based training program with professionally developed courses, employee testing capabilities, and systematic documentation of employee training sessions and scores. And remember, BLR^® Employee Training Center courses can be delivered at individual employee desks, in computer centers, at training kiosks, or even in a classroom.

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