Monthly Archives: October 2012

New committee for PEHN

The PEHN Annual General Meeting was held at William Angliss “The Bistro” on the 24th October 2012. The meeting  commenced at 5:00 pm sharp and finished with refreshments at 6:30p.m.  After the official reports and votes, the committee and attendees discussed other business such as how to attract housekeepers as members, the yearly events and venues for the coming Christmas party.  

The committee for 2012 – 2013:

  • President                          Marian Stratford (Bluestone Recruitment)
  • Vice President                  Margaret Fernandes (Radisson Hotel)
  • Treasurer                          Jocelyn Ng (Metwood)
  • Secretary                           Donna Musarrella (AHS)
  • Committee                        Lynabel Carreon (Clarion Suites Gateway)
  • Committee                        Meena Tamang (Cosmopolitan Hotel)
  • Committee                        Megan Johnston (Park Hyatt)
  • Committee                        Dorthe Jantzen (MCohn & Associates)

Calendar of Events planned for 2013

  • March – Supplier Function
  • May – Housekeeper’s Forum
  • July – Mini Trade Show (Supplier night)
  • September – International Housekeeper’s Week (Hotel Housekeeping Teams get together)
  • October – AGM/Charity Event
  • December – Christmas Party

If you have any ideas or suggestions for the coming years events please send us an email on pehn.aus@gmail.com  or visit our website www.pehn.org , you can also look us up at LinkedIn and Facebook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHAN Pink and Movember Morning Tea – 21 November 2012

PHAN invites members and non-members to join them at a magnificent Morning Tea to be held at their favourite “Pink” Cancer Supporters venue.  They have joined with Ziva before to support her in this worthy and popular cause.  PHAN is blending Pink and “Mo”vember events – cancer related health issues for men and women!

21 November 2012
9.00 to 11.30 am

High up on the 48th floor of the MLC Centre right in the heart of the city.  A wonderful feast, great speakers – and a good opportunity to network with colleagues from other properties and industries.   Please invite your male colleagues to come along and support this event.

  • Members $30 (PHAN will support their members by contributing $10 for each member attending)
  • Non members $35

Let PHAN know you are coming – and how many colleagues you will bring. Email public.officer@phan.org.au

 

 


 

Calendar of events for the Association of Executive Housekeepers (AGG) in Switzerland

The Association des Gouvernantes Generale (Swiss Housekeepers Association) presents the events for the coming months:

4 to 7 November – Gastronomia 2012
23 November – Assemblée Générale de l’association et Gala de fin d’année
Spring 2013 – Show room des Partenaires de l’AGG

SEQPHA Sofitel Gold Coast Xmas Breakfast

Only two months now until Christmas, SEQPHA is organising its last breakfast for the year late November.

All members and non members are invited to come along for breakfast at the Sofitel Gold Coast, Tuesday the 27th November at 7 am. Members $20 and Non Members $25

Please let Melissa Bent know if you can attend by the 12th of November. Email her on melissa@corporatedesigns.com.au or call 0466 915 341

Another L&A Housekeeping Development Course for Singapore with e2i

The 2nd 3 day workshop “Development Programme for Housekeeping Managers” was run in Singapore this month. Once again the workshop was sponsored by Government Agency e2i ( Employment and Employability Institute) and was held at their state of the art seminar room in Redhill. The 23 attendees from every level of Housekeeping Management and every kind of Housekeeping operation participated enthusiastically over the 3 days. The focus was again on Profit, People and Product the Housekeeping Managers left with tools and skills to further improve their Departments.

Singaporeans and permanent residents of Singapore were able to take advantage of the 50% funding offered by e2i making the 3 day workshop even greater value for money.

Further workshops are planned for 2013 including a new 2 day workshop on Project Management and Environmental Sustainability a follow on from the Development Programme for Housekeeping Managers

About e2i

An initiative of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), supported by the Workforce Development Agency (WDA), the Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF), and the Singapore National Employers’ Federation (SNEF), e2i serves all segments of workers, from rank and file to professionals, managers and executives.  As THE market-place for workers, employers and training providers, e2i exists to create better jobs and better lives for workers. In 2010, they helped 40,000 workers through providing better jobs, developing better skills through professional development, and improving productivity for companies

Update from the Global Soap Project!

The Global Soup Project was founded in 2009, and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the Global Soap Project receives partially-used soap from over 1,000 hotels across North America, recycles it into new bars of soap, and distributes them to disaster victims, refugees, and children and mothers living in extreme poverty.  To-date, GSP has sent recycled soap, along with hygiene education, to thousands of people in 23 countries, and each week GSP produces 30,000 new bars of soap to go to people who need them most.
Sam Stephens, Executive Director of the Global Soap Project gives us an update on progress made to date!
As we head into a busy time of year, I want to share some of the exciting successes in 2012.
The Global Soap Project is growing.  Currently, we’re partnering with 1,000 hotels across North America to salvage their used soap.  With improved machinery and a handful of new, capable staff, we’re now producing 30,000 new bars of soap each week – a quantity that would have taken 10 weeks to produce last year! That’s 7,500 pounds of soap that would otherwise end up in landfills or water systems weekly.
Our impact for good has been growing, too.  So far in 2012, we’ve partnered with a host of respected relief and development organizations to send more than 300,000 new bars of soap to 11 countries.  This includes a partnership with the youth development group Salesian Missions to provide 5,000 children in orphanages in Haiti more than a year’s supply of new soap.  In addition, we’ve recently partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a project in Malawi to improve the health of pregnant women and their children by teaching them about proper hygiene and encouraging regular visits to their local clinics.
There are more exciting partnerships like these on the horizon, and we’ll need your help to make them a reality. Together, we’ll continue to make a difference – one bar of soap at a time!
For more information about the Global Soap Project visit www.globalsoap.org

L&A Housekeeping Development workshop held at Taylors University, Malaysia

3 days Development Programme for Malaysian Housekeepers through Taylor’s University. With the support of the Malaysian Association of Housekeepers (MAHIR) and the Malaysian Hotel Association housekeepers and university lecturers were able to attend from across the country. The participants coming from a range of hotels and institutions enthusiastically took part and all agreed their Assistants and Housekeepers Managers should do the same for the next training sessions scheduled for March 2013.

The Programme was subsidised by the Government with 100% of the fees claimable by participants making this training programme extremely affordable for all hotels. The 3 day development programme of finance for housekeeping, people management in housekeeping and quality control have given the participants the ability to put an action plans in place with many issues to be actioned and resolved in the future.

About Taylors University
Taylor’s University, at the brand new Lakeside Campus was launched in 2010 and has faculties in Architecture, Business and Communication,

Engineering, Hospitality, Tourism & Culinary Arts, Law and Medicine. There are over 12,000 students on campus with nearly 3000 in the hospitality and tourism faculty. The Continuing Professional Education hosted the workshop as part of its endeavours to provide ongoing training and opportunities to Malaysian Hotels. For more information visit: www.taylors.edu.my/en/university/schools/cpe