Monday, December 8, 2008
After hour mall & building access problems
There has been a string of National and Regional directives for Malls and other buildings banning all roof access before 7am in the morning. Some are city directives in mixed use buildings due to noise ordinances. One large ownership group is only allowing access between the hours of 7am and 3pm. This makes it almost impossible for quality cleaning companies to do the proper job without closing the restaurants as many systems require many hours to complete these the cleanings properly. This leads to a HUGE fire danger as the restaurants are forced to used cleaning companies that are willing to work within these hours by NOT CLEANING most of the systems. We all need to work together to keep the mall operations people informed about what we do, how much danger their directives are presenting to the tenants and property, and that the directives for these after hour accesses are poor decisions for more reasons than I can count. They also will loose tenants and sales if they force these restaurants to close for proper cleanings during normal business hours. In addition to this, how do shopping customers feel when they visit the mall and their favorite place is closed down for cleaning? They will start shopping somewhere else. How will shoppers feel when they have to evacuate the mall due to a grease fire? How will these security measures be explained if someone dies or is injured in a grease fire because their onerous measures lead to inferior cleanings as they forced their tenants into no other choice. How will they explain injuries from crews having to ignore safety measures due to these time constraints? How will they explain damages from crews having to ignore proper setups due to these time constraints? We must all act now and work together to make sure everyone understands how ignorant these policies are. It is not the landlords fault, they often only see part of the picture. The only way to combat this ignorance is to educate the security and operations people working for these landlords on all of the reasons we need proper and reasonable after hour access. Also, this means we need to take full responsibility for training our own crews on safety, security, and the protection of both our customers and the landlords property while on the job.
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