An essential but often overlooked part of people management and workplace culture is staff safety. Providing a safe environment for employees is an integral responsibility of any employer. It should be treated with the utmost priority – especially when considering industries and roles that place workers in vulnerable scenarios.

To this effect, the topic of staff safety across the hospitality industry is ever-relevant, as hospitality workers are notoriously faced with the risk of injury or harm while on the job. This is a well-known fact in the industry, and, finally, after many years of negative headlines and rampant staff turnover, hotel brands are reconsidering their internal safety protocols to protect their staff better. Of course, you can’t manage what you can’t measure, and hoteliers can’t expect to shield their team from threats if they don’t first identify those threats. To effectively revamp the safety culture within hotels, we must first explore how hospitality staff members are most vulnerable while performing their duties and what those risks are.