About Ezi-Maid
“This product not only has the potential for broader application across the motel/hotel industry, but could also extend to all businesses lifting continual items to a height addressing manual handling issues.
This innovative solution to an identified workplace health and safety issue is a great demonstration of ‘engineering out’ of a problem. It has the potential to set new standards for the future of the hospitality industry and many other businesses.
Since the ‘bed lifter’ has been introduced there have been no manual handling incidents reported.”
It has been over 15 years since Ezi-Maid’s founder, John Koorey built his own hotel. At that time, concerned about housekeeping staff injury, he created, developed and installed the Bed Lifting System. Today, these same bed lifting frames are still being used at his Dorsal Boutique Hotel, in Forster, NSW.
Now, tens of thousands of Bed Lifting Systems have been installed globally, making happier housekeepers by preventing back injury.
Judge’s comments at the 2008 SafeWork Awards, where Ezi-Maid was awarded
Best Solution to an Identified Workplace Health and Safety Issue
Ezi-Maid’s write-up at the 2008 SafeWork Awards
The world’s only specialist bed lifting company
The Ezi-Maid Bed Lifting System is an innovative product that was designed to guarantee the reduction of injuries related to bed making. The device also makes it possible to clean under beds and provide a cleaner, healthier environment for staff and guests alike.
The Ezi-Maid Bed Electric Lifting System fits to your existing beds and operates by an infrared remote control. The device lifts the bed up off the floor to waist height so housekeeping staff can make the bed standing up. Not only will this reduce the amount of injuries for the housekeeping staff, but also means that hotel owners can potentially expect signifigant reduction in workers compensation claims, resulting in increased profits.
“….at a cost of almost $250 million dollars worldwide, the Marriott Hotel chain has joined in [the war of the beds] with a bed called REVIVE.
But pity the staff who have to make up these latest offerings by hotels. It is reported to be taking an extra three hours per week to do these huge deluxe beds.
To assist, staff have been advised to make beds in the kneeling position to avoid back strain or injury”.
- The Sunday Telegraph
Increasing competition in the hospitality industry is resulting in housekeeping staff now having an 85% higher risk of injury than non-housekeeping staff due to heavier, more luxurious beds.