Hi. Just as at the assessment of the risks of investing in other types of property to need be taken into consideration: location, condition technical, aesthetic, equipment, standards, availability communication, development possibility, methods governance, costs, revenues, etc.

Below for a link to the publication about the risk of the rent and the lease of hotel facilities, but unfortunately in Polish.

http://www.dzp.pl/files/Art/Poradnik_2012_JBagatela.pdf

I always advocate that risk assessment of any project should commence at conceptual design stage to save cost, trouble and time. In a hotel, many hazards can be eliminated during the design of kitchens and its fittings, the conveniences, the lift and generally the landscape. On commissioning of the hotel, hazards inherent in all the process should be identified and the risks they impose. Note here that hazard is that that have potential to cause harm while a risk is the likelihood of exposure to a hazard causing harm. The following are the types of hazards that should be captured:

• Physical : noise, heat, radiation, illumination

• Chemical: Fumes, dust, liquid, solid, gas etc

• Biological hazards: microorganisms, snakes, insects, plants etc

• Ergonomics: Lifting, space allocation, illumination etc.

• Safety hazards e.g. fall, slip, trip, fire, hot surfaces, electrical etc.

After collecting all these information, the following steps should be taken in carrying out risk assessment in the hotel. (For this type of unit (hotel), which is of low hazard, qualitative risk assessment is recommended rather than quantitative risk assessment).

• Identify the assessment unit: The hotel should be divided into small units for simplicity

• Identify the job types (e.g. cook, porter, labourers, receptionist etc) in each of the the unit.

• Identify the task inherent in each of the job types ( e.g. one of the job types of a cook is cooking)

• Evaluate the risk by using the matrix as shown below

 Prioritise your actions - It helps to determine which risk is the most serious and thus which hazard to control first.

 “Low Risk- No additional controls are required unless they can be implemented at very low cost (in terms of time, money, and effort). Actions to further reduce these risks are assigned low priority. Arrangements should be made to ensure that the controls are maintained.

 Medium Risk - Consideration should be as to whether the risks can be lowered, where applicable, to a tolerable level and preferably to an acceptable level, but the costs of additional risk reduction measures should be taken into account. The risk reduction measures should be implemented within a defined time period. Arrangements should be made to ensure that controls are maintained, particularly if the risk levels area associated with harmful consequences.

 High Risk - Substantial efforts should be made to reduce the risk. Risk reduction measures should be implemented urgently within a defined time period and it might be necessary to consider suspending or restricting the activity, or to apply interim risk control measures, until this has been completed. Considerable resources might have to be allocated to additional control measures. Arrangements should be made to ensure that controls are maintained, particularly if the risk levels are associated with extremely harmful consequences and very harmful consequences”.

Control Measures: These include

 Substitution

 Engineering Control

 Procedural Control

 PPE

 Information and training

 Medical Surveillance (in case of health hazards)

Lastly at the end of the project there must be evidences that

 A proper assessment was carried out by competent team

 That workers involved were interviewed

 Dealt with each significant hazards

 Control of all risks were as reduced to as low as reasonably practicable.( ALARP)

 Staff were involved in very stage

However the risk assessment must be revisited if there are:

 Introduction of a new equipment or substances

 Change of processes or procedures

 Awareness of health and safety standards

 Introduction of new legislations

References

Brian M. Kazer (1983), Risk Assessment- A Practical Guide, Institution of Occupational

and Health.

ILO (1983), Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety,

Geneva.

Oluwagbemi B.F. (2010), Themes and Issues in occupational Health and Safety , 2nd Edition, Vertext

Nigeria Limited, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Shell Yellow Guide, ( 1995) Health Risk Assessment