PEHN forum speakers impress
- Wednesday, 09 November 2011 10:32
The Professional Executive Housekeeper's Network hosted its inaugural Housekeeper's Forum on Oaks on Market and it was a great success with a lot of good feedback from attendees. Our thanks to Bridget and Maree for offering their time to educate us, and to the attendees who have supported this event, particularly two gentlemen from Century Inn which has come all the way from Traralgon. I must thank Pip Casey from www.accomnews.com for advertising the event in their newsletter which resulted in reaching and attendance from Regional Victoria.
Speakers included Maree de Bondt - general manager human resources AHS Hospitality - a human resources professional with more than 15 years in leadership, human resources and organisational development roles.
Maree spoke about bullying and harassment issues - a topic which we always need to be aware of and ensure to act on when brought up by staff, as Maree points out, our responsibility as leaders, is to do something about stopping it and protecting individuals concerned
The other speaker was Bridget Gardner, director of Fresh Green Clean, considered by many to be Australia's leading green clean expert and advocate. Her credibility has been well established for her ability to turn factual and complex information into simple, practical knowledge for all to use Green Cleaning facts and ideas is a passion of Bridget being very sensitive to a lot of chemicals use in the cleaning of linen and the rooms in hotels.
She spoke about what is really green cleaning, the effect of some perfumes in the cleaning chemicals and laundry detergents, cleaning with a micro fibre and how surprisingly that the cost may actually be quite economical if not the same in the long run.
