KIN YANG ACADEMY

360-A Don Placido Campos Ave., Sabang, Dasmariñas City, Cavite

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
S.Y. 2020-2021
NEW NORMAL
TECHNOLOGY AND LIVELIHOOD EDUCATION 10
MODULE 10

HOUSEKEEPING

Learning Target:
 Define Housekeeping
 Identify the different role of Housekeeping
 UNDERSTANDING CONCEPT

HOUSEKEEPING is a system way of

removal of dust and dirt, and any
foreign matters for the required
standard cleanliness, orderliness and
static value.

Housekeeping responsibilities have to

be distributed to several sections of the
housekeeping department. One section
attends maintenance of the guest rooms,
another to public areas of the hotel,
resorts and lodging establishments.

The word “Housekeeping” refers to the

upkeep and maintenance of cleanliness
and order in a house or a lodging
establishment, hotel, condominium,
hospitals.

A housekeeper is one who is

responsible for housekeeping
maintenance and sees to it that all the
guest, occupants are comfortable, safe
and protected from disease-causing
bacteria.

The Housekeeping department takes pride in keeping the lodging clean and comfortable, so
as to form a ‘Home absent from home’. The point of all settlement foundations is to supply
their clients with clean, alluring, comfortable and inviting encompassing that offer esteem
for cash. Nothing sends a more grounded message than cleanliness in a neighborliness
operation. No level of benefit, neighborliness or excitement can break even with the
sensation a visitor has upon entering a spotless, clean and helpfully orchestrated room. Both
administration and visitor consider the keeping of the put clean and in a great arrange a need
for an inn to command a reasonable cost and can get rehash commerce.

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IMPORTANCE OF HOUSEKEEPING

Housekeeping is an operational office in a hotel, which is dependable for cleanliness,

support, stylish upkeep of rooms, open range, back zone and environment. Lodging survives
on the deal of room, nourishment, refreshments and other minor administrations such as the
clothing, wellbeing club spa and so on. The exertion that a housekeeping office makes in
giving a guest an alluring room features a coordinate bearing on the guest’s involvement in
an inn. Guestrooms are the heart of the inn. The housekeeping office not as it were plans
clean guestroom on a convenient premise for arriving guest, but moreover cleans and keeps
up everything within the inn so that the property is as new and appealing as the day it
opened for commerce. Housekeeping, hence, is a subordinate office that contributes in an
enormous way towards the in general notoriety of a property. It is appropriately said that
housekeeping may be a 24 x 7 x 365 operation. Imagine the stacks of material required to
form up all the beds in a inn, the miles in the event that carpeting, floor, walls and ceiling to
be cleaned and kept up, and cleaning compounds in conjunction with uncommon
apparatuses and gear required in arrange to clean. Other than hotels, proficient
housekeeping administrations are exceptionally much in request in clinics, on voyage liners,
at workplaces and more. Since most such organizations lean toward to outsource these
capacities, contract housekeeping is getting to be a well-known in these days.

ROLE OF HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT

Housekeeping plays a very important role in hospitality industry such as:

➢ To accomplish the most extreme conceivable productivity in guaranteeing the care and
consolation of visitors and within the smooth running of the department

➢ To build up an inviting climate and guarantee respectful, solid benefit from all staff of
the department.

➢ To guarantee a tall standard of cleanliness and common upkeep in all regions for which
the office is responsible.

➢ To give cloth in rooms, eateries, dinner corridor, conference settings, wellbeing cl

➢ To donate uniforms for all the staff and keep up palatable inventories for the same.

➢ To cater to the washing necessities of the lodging cloth, staff uniforms and visitors’
clothing.

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➢ To give and keep up the flower enrichments and keep up the arranged regions of the
hotel.

➢ To facilitate redesign and refurnishing of the property as and when, in meeting with the
administration and with insides designers.

➢ To bargain with misplaced and found articles.

➢ To guarantee preparing, control and supervision of all staff connected to the department.
➢ To set up a great working relationship with other department.

➢ To guarantee that security and security controls are made known to all staff of the
department.

➢ To give uniforms for all the staff and keep up satisfactory inventories for the same.

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