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Who assigns, and who passes a room

Cleaning your own room and calling it inspected is not an inspection. A supervisor passes a room on a sheet with a score, a pass mark and critical lines.

Two rights the capability catalogue could not express: may this login hand rooms out, and may it say a room is ready. They are separate on purpose. An attendant may clean; a supervisor may assign and may pass; neither may do the other's job by accident.

The inspection

Between cleaned and ready sits the inspection: a sheet with the requirement's eight areas, a score per line from 0 to 5, a weighted total out of 100, and a pass mark the hotel sets. Some lines are critical — a bathroom that is not clean fails the room whatever the total. A failed room goes back to the attendant with the lines that failed, and the story says so.

Random and risk-based audits

A manager can be asked to re-inspect a sample — every tenth passed room, or the rooms of an attendant whose failures are rising — and the audit is a row on the story like any inspection.

A room is ready because it passed

The room's status becomes inspected only from a passed sheet. The desk sells what is inspected.

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