Monthly Housekeeping Inspection Checklist

''Good housekeeping implies that a workplace is kept in an organized, uncluttered, and hazard-free condition''

Process Street's Monthly Housekeeping Inspection Checklist acts as an aid to guide hotel or department managers as they assess the hotel's upkeep and cleanliness.

This Monthly Housekeeping Inspection Checklist has summarized the housekeeping inspection process into the below categories:

• Dust and Dirt Removal 
• Sanitation Facilities 
• Vermin Control
• Walkways and Working Surfaces 
• Lighting 
• Control of Spills 
• Storage and Maintenance of Tools and Equipment
• Waste Disposal
• Material Handling and Storage

84% of travelers rated cleanliness as 'very important' when choosing hotel accommodation. But cleanliness is not only about obtaining good reviews. Cleanliness lays the foundation for accident prevention.

With excellent housekeeping comes improved workers health and safety. Healthier and safer workers instruments significant improvements to workers productivity.

Keeping an organized, uncluttered, and hazard-free environment not only benefits the hotel's employees but also the hotel business as a whole.

However, good attention to detail is needed to reap these far-reaching positive impacts, attained from good housekeeping.

At Process Street, we recognize the checklist as a powerful tool to reduce errors and obtain this required attention to detail.

The Monthly Housekeeping Inspection Checklist should be completed on a monthly basis to ensure housekeeping is in line with the required standards.

At the beginning of this checklist, you will be presented with a set of specialized questions designed to make sure housekeeping requirements are reviewed and checked.

The questions are given as sub checklists, which for each, you will be able to leave notes and record your conclusions. 

Once this checklist has been completed, the data entered combine to produce a final housekeeping report, with the option to email a summary of this report to relevant personnel as the final step.

In this Monthly Housekeeping Inspection Checklist, you will be presented with the following form fields, for which you are required to populate with your own specific data. More information for each form field type is provided via linkage to our help pages:

• Subtasks 
• Dropdown
• Short Text 
• Date
• Email
• Email Widget
• Website 

Let's start by recording the hotel details, your details and the details of your supervisor or manager if required.

Check off each task in the subtasks as it is completed. State whether the task is attained or not by selecting Pass or Fail from the dropdown manu provised. Make a note of anything in need of reporting to relevant personnel. The attainment details and notes will later be compiled into a final report.

If you have no notes to add, please state 'no notes necessary'. This step is important when producing the final report.

Begin the housekeeping inspection in the kitchen. Make sure essential cleaning and upkeep activities are undertaken at the required frequency. A well-run kitchen will be organized and clean at all times.

When inspecting the bedrooms, you can confirm details such as 'how often are deep cleaning events run'. If you use Process Street's Deep Cleaning Checklist then deep clean events for every room are kept on record, and vital information or issues are instantly reported to the relevant personnel.

See Process Street's Deep Cleaning Checklist.

If your hotel has a restaurant, you need to take the time to inspect the running of the restaurant is within your housekeeping standards. No guest will want to eat in an unhygienic space. Wiping down menus to polishing cutlery is the level of detail required. 

Your bar is intertwined with your restaurant. It is pointless having a clean and well-run restaurant if your bar lacks these attributes. Be sure to take as much time cleaning and maintaining the upkeep of the bar area.

Dust particles can irritate the lungs and breathing. Make sure there are systems in place, even in areas non-accessible to guests, to prevent the accumulation of dust.

If left, dust will accumulate. With the accumulation of dust comes the accumulation of allergens, bacteria, and smells. It is important to take the time and effort to remove dust, especially from hard to reach places.

When dusting high places, a step ladder is advised. If using a step ladder be sure to take great care and obtain the required permission.

Your workers should have a place to change into their work uniform, ensure your hotel has these facilities in place. 

Water should be readily available to your staff. Ensure your hotel has these facilities. 

Remember to add information or issues in need of reporting to supervisors or other relevant personnel in the notes section.

Don't just inspect toilets exclusively available to the guests. Inspect toilets available to staff members also.

Your hotel should have cleaning, service and supplying schedules in place. Schedules will organize these routine processes for the smooth running of your hotel business. 

Mice, rats, cockroaches, flies and bed bugs are to name a few of the most common types of vermin found in hotels. Be sure to inspect for signs of vermin and identify causes of infestation to ensure control measures are in place to prevent infestations.

Remember if you have no notes to add, please state 'no notes necessary'. This step is important when producing the final report.

Slippery or obstructed walkways are safety hazards and must be avoided. Inspect your walkway areas to ensure they do not present hazards. 

You may have already inspected the majority of your working surfaces, for example, those in your kitchen as you inspected this area. This is a general step of the housekeeping checklist to ensure no other working surfaces have been missed from inspection.

Remember to add information or issues in need of reporting to supervisors or other relevant personnel in the notes section.

Inspect light bulbs and light fixtures. Check the lights are in working order, cleaned and provide enough lighting to areas. Certain areas will require more light than other areas. 

Sufficient lighting standards should be in accordance with 29 CFR 1915.82.

Equipment and machinery must be maintained and inspected regularly. For example, the equipment you use for repairs and general maintenance, or catering machinery used in the kitchen.

There should be enough garbage cans so no trash is left out. If you find trash is accumulating, be sure to obtain more and larger garbage cans. 

Dirty windows are easily noticed and can stain an otherwise pleasant window view. Grease marks from hands and fingers need to be remove from the inside.

Hand marks, grease from food and spilled drinks can stain the doors. Clean stains from the walls thoroughly. Look out for knocks, bangs or scapes to be repaired or covered.

Just like the walls, hand marks, grease from food and spilled drinks can stain the doors. Clean stains from the doors thoroughly. Look out for knocks, bangs or scapes to be repaired or covered.

Once the housekeeping checklist is complete, you can record the housekeeping details below. Enter the date of completion.

A final report has been generated which summarises tasks attained and tasks which have not been attained, including notes added.

If required, you can summarise the housekeeping checklist results below with information you feel needs to be passed onto relevant personnel. You can pass this information on using our email widget. This way you can report issues such as a lack of garbage cans or inappropriate servicing schedules. To do this select 'Yes' in the dropdown menu below, which is a conditional step taking you to the appropriate next step in the housekeeping process.

Your Housekeeping report has been generated using the information provided from each 'note' section of each task. 

Monthly Housekeeping Inspection Checklist Report 

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Bedrooms 

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Restaurant and Bar

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Sanitation Facilities 

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Walkways and Working Surfaces 

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Lighting 

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Control of Spills 

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Storage and Maintenance of Tools and Equipment 

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Waste Disposal 

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Windows, Walls and Doors 

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The email widget below allows you to send an email to your supervisor or other relevant personnel. You can edit the details in the email as you require.

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