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According to the American Hotel and Motel Association, the U.S. lodging industry brings in $134 billion and employs nearly 2 million people. Meeting the needs of guests is of the utmost importance in order to keep the business thriving, but protecting the safety and well-being of employees and keeping the day-to-day operations running smoothly are just as crucial. And that’s where TrainingToday’s Hospitality libraries can help.
From restaurant server basics to cash-handling essentials, alcohol rules to laundry room safety, we’ve got the quick and easy courses you need to keep customers happy, workers’ comp claims under control, and your organization in compliance.
Food Service Safety
TrainingToday’s Food Service Safety library gives employees and supervisors the skills they need to maintain a clean, healthy and productive food service environment, all while minimizing risks for expensive workers’ comp claims. From sanitation to inspections to employment laws, this suite of courses covers those food service danger-zone areas that can lead to expensive problems if not constantly addressed.
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Kitchen Safety
This session covers common hazards and safe practices for working in commercial, institutional, and industrial kitchens, including restaurants, hotels, bakeries, office buildings, schools, healthcare facilities, and event venues.
Learn MoreSafe Temperatures for Food Storage, Preparation, and Service
Storing, preparing, and serving food at the proper temperature is extremely important. Food that is not at a safe temperature is dangerous to the health of those who consume it. Today, we’ll talk about the many temperatures important for the safe storage, preparation, and service of food. There are a lot of numbers to remember, so you might want to take notes.
Learn MoreHospitality
TrainingToday’s Hospitality Library provides employers in the Lodging, Food Service, and Tourism industries with a complete suite of training course for employees at all levels of guest services. From restaurant server basics to cash-handling essentials, alcohol rules to laundry room safety, we’ve got the quick and easy courses you need to keep customers coming back again and again, workers’ comp claims under control, and your hospitality organization in compliance with employment laws.
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Avoiding Back Injuries
Back injuries are among the most common workplace injuries that cause lost days away from work. No matter what job you perform, you can injure your back on the job. Fortunately, there are a number of steps you can take to avoid back injuries and the lifetime of pain and medical bills that can come with them. In this training session, you’ll learn what risk factors and hazards expose you to back injuries and what you can do to help keep your back healthy and pain-free.
Learn MoreAvoiding Back Injuries—Spanish
Back injuries are among the most common workplace injuries that cause lost days away from work. No matter what job you perform, you can injure your back on the job. Fortunately, there are a number of steps you can take to avoid back injuries and the lifetime of pain and medical bills that can come with them. In this training session, you’ll learn what risk factors and hazards expose you to back injuries and what you can do to help keep your back healthy and pain-free.
Learn MoreAvoiding Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens
This session discusses how you might be exposed to bloodborne pathogens (BBP) and infectious diseases, how you can protect yourself from exposure, and how to clean up and properly dispose of blood or bodily fluids. Employees most likely to be exposed include first-aid responders, janitorial and maintenance personnel, and workers assigned to clean up after an industrial accident. Even if your job does not normally expose you to blood or bodily fluids, this session is helpful to raise your awareness of bloodborne pathogens, to understand why you should not come in contact with them, and to understand that it is important to report spills of blood or bodily fluids so that they can be cleaned up safely.
Learn MoreAvoiding Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens (Spanish)
This session is intended for any employee who is likely to be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials, commonly abbreviated as OPIM, in their workplace. Employees most likely to be exposed to bloodborne pathogens include first-aid responders, janitorial and maintenance personnel, and workers assigned to clean up after an industrial accident. Even if your job does not normally expose you to blood or OPIM, this session is helpful to raise your awareness of bloodborne pathogens, including how to prevent harmful exposures.
Learn MoreCustomer Service Skills—How We Can All Improve
Without our customers, we wouldn’t be in business, and none of us would have jobs. That’s why it is important for every employee in every department of every workplace to develop a customer-oriented focus and always provide excellent service. The main objective of this online customer service training course is to teach employees ways to improve the service they provide to customers. By the time this course is over, employees should be able to recognize that we all have customers and share responsibility for customer satisfaction, understand what customers expect from them, handle customers’ problems effectively, and help improve overall customer satisfaction.
Learn MoreDiversity for All Employees
Diversity in the workplace means having a group of employees with a wide range of different backgrounds in terms of race, age, gender, and other characteristics. Having a diverse workforce is a good thing, but it can also present some challenges. This session will present facts about diversity that show how employees can help create a cooperative and productive work environment by respecting one another’s diverse backgrounds.
Learn MoreDiversity for All Employees (Spanish)
This training presentation will explain how you can support diversity in our organization. At the end of the training session, you will be able to identify how we are diverse, understand the challenges and opportunities of workplace diversity, help avoid discrimination, and follow company policy.
Learn MoreEmergency Action and Fire Prevention
Workplace emergencies are responsible for killing hundreds of workers and injuring thousands more every year in part because workers aren’t trained to recognize the hazards that lead to emergencies and the measures that can be taken to prevent them. This course informs employees how to prevent fires and respond safely to other emergencies in the workplace, as well as the steps to take if an emergency does occur.
Learn MoreEmergency Action and Fire Prevention—Spanish
This online safety training course will teach Spanish-speaking employees to understand workplace hazards that lead to an emergency and how to respond quickly and efficiently to an emergency situation. Also covered in this training course are how to evacuate an area in an emergency, protect others from fire and other hazards, prevent fires, and respond to fires and spills while at work.
Learn MoreEvent Planning Basics
The main objective of this session is to provide you with information that will help you successfully plan events. By the time the session is over, you will be able to identify basic elements in the planning process; employ effective planning strategies; overcome problems; and plan successful events.
Learn MoreFront Desk Operations
The main objective of this session is to help you maintain high-quality front desk operations. By the time the session is over, you will be able to interact efficiently and effectively with guests; provide the highest quality service; handle all your duties professionally and successfully; resolve any problems or complaints quickly and cordially; and encourage guest satisfaction and loyalty.
Learn MoreGuest Management
The main objective of this session is to help you improve your guest management skills. By the time the session is over, you will be able to understand the importance of guest management; identify requirements for effective guest management; integrate guest management responsibilities into your job; and assist the organization in managing guests well to ensure satisfaction and loyalty.
Learn MoreHandling Customer Complaints
Effective customer complaint handling is one of the most important aspects of providing excellent customer service. Customers who complain are offering the organization a chance to identify and resolve problems, demonstrate excellent service, and keep loyal customers. The objective of this online customer service training course is to help employees handle customer complaints and difficult customers successfully. At the end of this training course, trainees will be able to view customer complaints as opportunities, identify problems that prompt complaints, handle complaints effectively, and satisfy customers who complain.
Learn MoreHandling Money
The main objective of this session is to help you handle money correctly on the job. By the time the session is over, you will be able to understand why handling money properly is important, avoid money-handling errors, follow money-handling procedures, and handle money skillfully on the job.
Learn MoreHousekeeper Safety
The main objective of this session is to make you more aware of workplace hazards and to suggest simple ways you can prevent accidents and injuries. By the time this session is over, you should be able to recognize workplace hazards, identify the precautions you need to take, and prevent accidents and injuries on the job.
Learn MoreHousekeeper Safety (Spanish)
The main objective of this session is to make you more aware of workplace hazards and to suggest simple ways you can prevent accidents and injuries. By the time this session is over, you should be able to recognize workplace hazards, identify the precautions you need to take, and prevent accidents and injuries on the job.
Learn MoreHow to Be a Great Restaurant Server
The main objective of this session is to help you become a truly great restaurant server. By the time the session is over, you will be able to understand what diners expect from you, welcome diners and take orders properly, serve meals correctly, monitor tables effectively, handle problems and complaints satisfactorily, and conclude meals successfully.
Learn MoreHuman Trafficking: Awareness and Response
This course will inform you of the basic foundation to understanding what human trafficking is and its relation to modern-day slavery, what it looks like, what you should do if you come across human trafficking.
Learn MoreKitchen Safety
This session covers common hazards and safe practices for working in commercial, institutional, and industrial kitchens, including restaurants, hotels, bakeries, office buildings, schools, healthcare facilities, and event venues.
Learn MoreLaundry Safety
Laundry operations present staff with a variety of potential hazards. The main objective of this session is to make sure you understand them and the precautions you must take to keep safe and healthy. By the time this session is over, you will be able to identify laundry hazards; prevent exposure to infectious materials; avoid musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs); prevent heat stress; take precautions against slips, trips, and falls; and avoid harmful exposures to other safety and health hazards.
Learn MoreLaundry Safety (Spanish)
The main objective of this session is to make you more aware of workplace hazards and to suggest simple ways you can prevent accidents and injuries. By the time this session is over, you should be able to recognize workplace hazards, identify the precautions you must take, and prevent accidents and injuries on the job.
Learn MorePersonal Hygiene and Good Grooming
The main objective of this session is to emphasize the importance of personal hygiene and good grooming on the job. By the time this session is over, you will be able to understand the importance of personal hygiene and good grooming on the job; identify necessary personal hygiene habits; identify good grooming habits; and present a positive, professional image at work.
Learn MorePreventing Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Employees
Sexual harassment is a form of illegal discrimination under federal and state civil rights laws. Not only can it lead to lawsuits and penalties; it can damage workplace morale, creating an unproductive, unpleasant, and sometimes even hostile working environment. Your employees need to know that sexual harassment violates your workplace policies and won’t be tolerated. This course will help employees recognize, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Duration: 25 minutes.
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Serving Alcohol Responsibly
The main objective of this session is to help you serve alcohol responsibly under any circumstances. By the time the session is over, you will be able to understand why serving alcohol responsibly is so important; identify the effects of alcohol consumption; recognize intoxication when you see it; identify factors that affect intoxication; prevent intoxication and underage drinking; refuse service successfully; and document and report incidents involving intoxication and refusal of service.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment Prevention for Workers in Restaurants and Bars
Sexual harassment can disrupt the workplace and cause lasting problems for everyone involved. The pressures and pace in the hospitality industry often lead to great camaraderie amongst staff. But the flip side to that is an informality that allows inappropriate behavior to go unchecked. When you add the element of dealing with customers—some who have been drinking—to the mix, there is great potential for inappropriate behavior, which could lead to employer liability. By the end of this course, supervisors and employees should be able to identify ways in which the unique employment setting found in restaurant and bars leads to unique challenges as well as recognize, prevent, and respond to sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior when it does happen.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment—What Employees Need to Know
This online sexual harassment training course will teach employees about sexual harassment in the hope that awareness will help lead to the prevention of such harassment. By the end of this session, employees will have learned to be able to recognize sexual harassment; differentiate between the two main kinds of harassment; understand and follow company policy; report incidents; cooperate in investigations; and help promote and maintain a comfortable, productive working environment.
Learn MoreSexual Harassment—What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)
Al terminar esta sesión de capacitación, usted podrá reconocer un acoso sexual, diferenciar entre dos clases principales de acoso, comprender y seguir la política del lugar de trabajo, denunciar incidentes y colaborar en las investigaciones y ayudar a fomentar y mantener un clima de trabajo confortable y productivo.
Learn MoreViolence in the Workplace: How to Prevent and Defuse for Supervisors
This online violence in the workplace training course will help managers and supervisors identify the causes of workplace violence, spot the signs of potential violence, follow required security procedures, respond effectively to violent acts, and recognize and respond to terrorist threats.
Learn MoreWorkplace Security for Employees
Today, we’re going to talk about measures and actions to protect yourself, coworkers, and the workplace from unintentional and natural threats, as well as from intentional harm from others such as theft, violence, or willful damage-measures that will make the workplace safer and more secure.
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