Daily tasks/Routine activities

1. Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts.

2. Disinfect equipment and supplies, using germicides or steam-operated sterilizers.

3. Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.

4. Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean ashtrays, and transport other trash and waste to disposal areas.

5.Observe precautions required to protect hotel and guest property and report damage, theft, and found articles to supervisors.

6. Replenish supplies, such as drinking glasses, linens, writing supplies, and bathroom items.

7. Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers.

8. Dust and polish furniture and equipment.

9. Keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy.

10. Wash windows, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, waxing and polishing as necessary.

11. Sweep, scrub, wax, or polish floors, using brooms, mops, or powered scrubbing and waxing machines.

12. Move and arrange furniture and turn mattresses.

13. Hang draperies and dust window blinds.

Key knowledge areas

Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.This simplifies communication with clients of different races/tribes.

Skills

The following skills are vitual for a domestic household worker to execute his/her duties;

Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.

Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Abilities

Extent Flexibility — The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.

Trunk Strength — The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.

Stamina — The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.

Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).