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HospitalityReviewing the hotel's emergency action plan

Before any alarm, every hotel employee covered by the plan knows it: where it is kept, what it covers and what their own role is. The employer reviews it with you when you are first assigned, when your duties under the plan change and when the plan changes. It follows OSHA's federal rule for emergency action plans.

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Scenarios

  • A new front desk employee on the first assignment: the employer reviews the plan with them.
  • An employee whose duties under the plan change, for example a new role leading guests out.
  • The plan changes: the employer reviews it again with each employee it covers.
  • A small hotel with 10 employees or fewer: the plan may be communicated orally.

The steps

  1. Find the emergency action plan: in writing, kept at the workplace and available for you to review.
  2. Know how to report a fire or other emergency.
  3. Know the type of evacuation and your exit route assignment.
  4. Know who stays to run critical operations before evacuating, and what they do.
  5. Know how everyone is accounted for after the evacuation.
  6. Know who performs rescue and medical duties, and the procedures they follow.
  7. Know the name or job title of the person to contact for more information or an explanation of your duties.
  8. Review the plan with your employer when you are first assigned, when your duties under it change and when the plan changes.

To pass

  • The plan includes at least: reporting, evacuation and exit route assignments, critical operations, accounting for employees, rescue and medical duties, and who to contact.
  • The employer reviewed the plan with the employee at each of the three moments the rule names.
  • With more than 10 employees the plan is written; with 10 or fewer it may be oral.
  • OSHA's nonmandatory appendix recommends floor plans or maps that clearly show the escape routes.

Official source

Federal · OSHA, 29 CFR 1910.38

29 CFR 1910.38, Emergency action plans

GovInfo publishes 29 CFR 1910.38 free: what the plan must contain, the alarm, the training and when the plan is reviewed with each employee.

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