It’s been a very active year for my OHS consulting business. I’ve reached the top of my hotel loyalty membership benefits. If a suite is available at check-in, I’m upgraded at no extra cost. Although I’m pleased with the added space, I accept the room knowing there’s an increased risk to my health and safety. How’s that?
Most hotel suites include a plush chair and couch, sometimes made of leather but more often covered in cloth fabric. Hotels routinely apply fabric refresher to these items to mask or eliminate odor. But they deep clean cloth chairs and couches, under cushions and all, about as often as you do at home. Lack of deep cleaning and other actions/inactions help unwanted guests in the room, such as bed-bugs and germs, to multiply and spread to bedding and even packed clothes.