It's a rapidly growing trend nationwide. Most recently, hotel employees are calling for increased security to be provided by the richest hotel chain in the country, Marriott. Recently over 7,000 Marriott employees in seven cities walked out, citing the need for their employer to provide safer working conditions. One simple and often overlooked safety measure is Hotel Panic Buttons.
Hotel employees in Boston, Detroit, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose and two cities in Hawaii have staged walk-outs to voice their concern. Chicago and Las Vegas have already made it mandatory for Hotel Panic Buttons to be provided to staff, including hotel housekeepers.
Hotel housekeepers are particularly vulnerable. When the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission studied the factors that foster sexual harassment, it identified a series of conditions that define hotel housekeeping: language differences, "significant power disparities" between employees and management, reliance on customer satisfaction, physical isolation, and alcohol consumption. “We don’t know if the predators are there,” said Juana Melara, a room attendant in Long Beach, Calif. She says a former employer took more than 20 minutes to respond after she alerted them that a man exposed himself to her in a hallway. “They feel they have a right to the lady who cleans the room.” Bloomberg
The overwhelming majority of hotel owners can proudly and accurately proclaim that the above occurrence has never been an issue within the walls of their hotel. Sexual harassment is a serious issue not only in general but, with the recent rise of the #metoo movement, it has been rapidly brought to the forefront of discussion. An alarming amount of woman working at hotels across the nation has fallen victim to sexual harassment. Reportedly 89% of Hotel Housekeepers encountered such a situation in their career. With 56% of those claims being attributed to guests and 23% by their very own co-workers.
Hotel Panic Buttons will provide your hotel, housekeepers and other staff with greater security in several situations, ranging from medical emergencies to a potential assault. A simple and discrete one button neck pendant can be issued to your housekeepers, and wall mounted panic buttons can be deployed throughout the facility, ensuring no staff member or guest is out of the reach of instant assistance if needed.
BEC Integrated Solutions has emerged as a leader in Hotel Panic Button systems. With seamless integration and nearly unlimited expansion, our Hotel Wireless Panic Alarm master console provides an all-in-one security solution for your property. This system communicates with all surrounding components to help deliver emergency communication and track and monitor personnel. With a reputation of dependability, our Hotel Wireless Panic Alarm master console will provide enhanced security at your hotel.
Our team can be a professional and highly knowledgeable partner in the design process of a custom system for your hotel. We have decades of on the ground experience ensuring we see things from your perspective. You will never work with more than one system designer, to emphasize the importance of design continuity, each project is assigned to a specific system designer. We have developed a wealth of great relationships with professional contractors nationwide. In most locations, we are able to put you in contact with one of them for your full installation needs. Once your wireless hotel panic button system is installed and running, the relationship remains, we provide full customer service for the entire life of the system.
For any questions or a free quote contact us at BEC Integrated Solutions today!
