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Disease Prevention within the Hospitality Industry

Abstract

This paper provides an insight to the disease prevention in a restaurant in a hospitality industry. It will discuss effective prevention and control of communicable diseases in hotels in order to safeguard the health of the hotel guests and staff. The restaurants are obligated to secure the health of customers and employees. Training and educating of employees in cleanliness and personal hygiene is necessary in order to prevent from various diseases like food borne Disease. Ensuring quality health and safety of food various stages of the food chain is crucial for any restaurant. This paper will address different preventive measures which are crucial in order to maintain healthy environment in restaurants and decrease the probability of diseases caused by bacteria and viruses.

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Discussion2

Literature Review2

Communicable Diseases3

Pathogens3

Reservoir4

Transmission Modes of Diseases4

Contact Transmission4

Droplet transmission5

Airborne transmission5

Common vehicle transmission5

Vector-borne (insects) transmission6

Norovirus7

Salmonella7

Preventive Measures of Food borne Diseases7

Food Safety Measures8

Personal Health9

Clothing10

Health Training10

Location10

Physical Structures11

Dressing rooms and restrooms for the Staff11

Sewage Disposal12

Solid Waste Disposal12

Conclusion12

Bibliography12

Disease Prevention within the Hospitality Industry

Introduction

The hospitality industry involves wide category of areas within the service market that includes places to stay, restaurants, event planning, recreational areas, transport, cruise line, and additional areas within the tourist market. A hospitality unit such as an eating place, hotel, or even an entertainment park involves multiple groups such as facility maintenance, direct functions (porters, servers, kitchen workers, housekeepers etc.) marketing, management and hr. Effective prevention and control of communicable diseases in hotels can safeguard the health of the hotel guests and staff. In order to uphold the reputation of hotels to overseas tourists, it is incumbent on every hotel staff to learn how to prevent communicable diseases. This paper is intended to provide practical information on the preventive measures of communicable diseases. Every hotel employee has the responsibility to understand the guideline and to take due care of the hotel guests. The restaurants are obligated to secure the health of customers and employees. Training and educating of employees in cleanliness and personal hygiene is necessary. (Green LR, 2005)This paper will address the ways of Disease Prevention in a restaurant, in Hospitality industry. It will discuss the Communicable Diseases along with different modes of transmission of diseases in people. Further, it will address Food Borne diseases which can occur in restaurant staff or guests of the restaurants if preventive measures are not taken. So the paper will include different preventive measures which are crucial in order to maintain a healthy environment in restaurants and decrease the probability of diseases caused by bacteria and viruses. These preventive measures include safety measures of restaurant's staff in personal hygiene and clothing. Further, health trainings are required to ensure safety of employees and guests and attention should be given to location of restaurant, physical structures, ventilation, dressing rooms and restrooms for the staff, sewage disposal, and solid waste disposal of the restaurants as a preventive measure to diseases. In last, paper will address about the need of professional help from ...