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title: 5 Ways Custom Hotel Furniture Keeps Your Employees Safe
description: It's easy to overlook staff when it comes to providing wellness hotel options. Here are 5 ways your furniture can improve health and wellness for staff.
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# [5 Ways Custom Hotel Furniture Keeps Your Employees Safe](https://blog.artonemfg.com/blog/wellness-hotel-staff-benefits)

 Written by [Artone LLC](https://blog.artonemfg.com/blog/author/artone-llc) | Sep 16, 2024 4:00:00 AM

With so much focus on [wellness options within a hotel](https://blog.artonemfg.com/blog/healthy-hotel-interior-design) and the guests’ quality-of-life benefits, it’s easy to overlook **one of the most critical elements: the staff**. A happy and healthy staff will increase productivity and, in turn, the hotel’s ROI.

Not to mention, management will contend with fewer/less:

- Sick days
- Worker’s compensation claims
- Employee turnover

**What can you do to** **enhance their well-being while they’re on the clock?** Believe it or not, your choice of hotel furniture greatly impacts employees. Often times they interact with your hotel furniture more than anyone else - sometimes even more than guests.

### 1. Weight Considerations

Lifting heavy objects is one of the leading workplace injuries reported. [Nearly 40 percent of missed work days](https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/electricalcontractors/materials/heavy.html) are due to back and shoulder injuries.

**In some cases, traumas from one-time overexertion have led to hospitalization. **Other serious injuries take place with time and repetition.

A [responsive hotel furniture casegoods manufacturer](https://www.artonemfg.com/) will review in detail size and weight specifications for each piece of furniture and their components. **Custom furniture professionals** can recommend adjustments to the design/construction to **eliminate potential issues before the final order is placed**.

### 2. Effective Handling

Injuries result from mishandling heavy or awkward furniture.

Design dressers, tables, and stands so their height reaches the “[power zone](https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/electricalcontractors/supplemental/principles.html#power)” between the chest and thigh. Those who must move them (and heavy objects that rest on them) will appreciate the consideration for their strength and spinal alignment.

A more sensible design will ease the process for staff, who must regularly clean and maintain the furniture.

When design solutions aren’t feasible, staff need access to:

- Pallet jacks
- Dollies
- Suction devices
- Ramps

[Sensible lifting and moving practices](https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/electricalcontractors/supplemental/principles.html#lifting) can prevent senseless injuries.

### 3. Materials

Consider the materials you’re using. Hardwood is heavier (and more expensive) than medium-density fiberboard (MDF). Both [laminate and wood veneer options](https://blog.artonemfg.com/blog/laminate-or-veneer-furniture) are easily used to cover MDF for a lighter end product that’s:

- Authentic
- Stylish
- Functional
- Durable

Furniture that is easy to maneuver and maintain will not only help your staff at their jobs, but also will result in fewer injuries.

### 4. Prohibit Harmful Chemicals

Chemicals used to paint, stain, and treat furniture can cause serious health and environmental hazards. The [U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act](https://www.epa.gov/chemicals-under-tsca) controls the use of chemicals (some of which cause genetic defects) in furniture manufacturing.

Choose an experienced vendor that’ll know the risks and regulations.

### 5. Movement, Standing, & Posture

[Roving hotel ambassadors and standing front-desk kiosks](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/business/speedy-check-in-lets-hotel-guests-bypass-front-desk.html?mcubz=0) are just a few [new-age hotel tech trends](https://blog.artonemfg.com/blog/health-technology-in-hotel-design). In addition to pleasing guests with streamlined check-in and customer-service processes, they’ll also **keep staff on the move.**

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*(****Editor’s note:**** This is the fourth in an ongoing blog series on wellness hotel options leading up to the *[*BDNY*](https://www.bdny.com/)* Trade Fair, Nov. 10-11, in NYC. ****Today:**** Staff. ****Next:**** Safety. Stay tuned for *[*Artone’s*](https://www.artonemfg.com/)* submission for this year’s show. ****NOTE:**** All data and information provided on this site is for informational purposes only. Artone LLC makes no representations as to accuracy, completeness, correctness, suitability, or validity of any information in this blog and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. All information provided is based upon opinion.)*

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