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Occupational Health Hazards in Hospitality Industry and Their Prevention (Review article)

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Introduction: Hospitality industry offers employment to people with different
personalities, background and skills through a wide diversity of different types of
outlets services. Hospitality industry includes a wide range of tasks and jobs which
pose different risks. The hospitality industry is a key provider of jobs around the world.
The complexity of the sector makes it difficult to estimate an overview of the situation.
A wide range of hospitality businesses are directly or indirectly dependent on tourism;
lodging, transportation, travel and trips. More attention goes towards working in hotels
and restaurant and to a lesser attention is given to supporting activities such as cleaning
jobs and receiver services. The workforce in this sector is faced with a large number
of physical, chemical, ergonomic and psychological risks. This review has addressed
several important points about hospitality industry; sectors of hospitality industry, the
important of hospitality industry worldwide and controls of risks that may happen at
different workplace in the hospitality industry. It discusses the hazards that may occur
in the latter. A risk assessment must be carried out on health hazards in hospitality
industry. The risk assessment should identify risks and control them: including both
engineering and organization so as to avoid or reduce the risk of injury or illness. This
review focuses on effective control measures that protect workers from workplace
hazards in hospitality industry. These measures help to avoid injuries, illnesses, and
incidents, minimize or eliminate health risks. Also it helps employers to provide
.workers with safe and healthful working conditions

DOI

10.21608/ejom.2021.143334

Keywords

Hospitality Industry, Sectors of Hospitality Industry, Health Hazards, Prevention of hospitality hazards

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Samir

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AM

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Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.

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45

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1

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21153

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2021-01-01

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2021-01-26

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2021-01-01

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65

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80

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1110-1881

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2357-058X

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Egyptian Journal of Occupational Medicine

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https://ejom.journals.ekb.eg/

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Occupational Health Hazards in Hospitality Industry and Their Prevention (Review article)

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22 Jan 2023