Eurostars Hotels will better protect its guests from hygiene, health and safety hazards by working with Check Safety First to implement its risk management auditing system, E-Cristal, throughout the chain's fifty-two hotels.

Eurostars Hotels is using the E-Cristal food safety module to manage the risks that food poisoning can present. The system will increase uniformity throughout the hotel chain providing comprehensive health and safety management, compared to the chain's previous checklists and basic lab samples approach. The system will also be supported by monthly unannounced audits of each hotel by Check Safety First inspectors.

The hotel chain explains: "Food hygiene standards have been historically difficult to monitor with our hotels spanning across twelve countries. The E-Cristal system will provide each establishment with a unified approach to tackling the issue, while also providing us with a chain-wide view of their progress or problems. A high level of service for guests has always been our top priority and this implementation further supports this."

Mark Harrington, CEO at Check Safety First, continues: "It's great to see Eurostars Hotels taking a proactive step to boost its health and safety standards. The E-Cristal system will mean that standards are met across the board, ensuring that the reputation of the chain is not compromised."

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About Eurostars Hotels
The Eurostars Hotels (www.eurostarshotels.com) portfolio currently comprises a total of 52 establishments spread over 10 European and three American countries. In addition to the Eurostars Hotel brand, the division of hotels under direct operation by the Hotusa Group encompasses 35 more establishments in Spain, Austria, Italy, Germany, England, France, Belgium, Holland, Mexico and Argentina.

This chain forms part of the hotel division of the Hotusa Group, a company that was founded in 1977, with headquarters in Barcelona, which nowadays is a dynamic organization that groups together an important collection of companies related to the tourist sector

About Check Safety First
Check Safety First supplies health and safety risk management audit systems to hotels, holiday properties and restaurants around the world.

The company enables these organisations to meet and exceed local and international legislative and best practice requirements for health and safety, through the implementation of HACCP and compliance management systems. Check Safety First also offers training, ongoing assessment and appraisals in accordance with the Cristal Mark, a standard developed in line with World Health Organisation's guidelines and the benchmark for food safety since its launch in 1997.

In November 2007 the company launched Via Cristal, a health and safety system developed specifically for overseas holiday properties. Based on the best practice principles of the Cristal Mark, Via Cristal enables property owners to mitigate the risk of guests becoming unwell or injured during their time in the accommodation by providing comprehensive health and safety guidelines backed by annual audits.

All hotels and holiday homes that meet the company's stringent criteria are listed on www.checksafetyfirst.com, the only resource which provides the travelling public with access to a database of venues that have obtained health and safety excellence.

The Check Safety First blog is now live at www.checksafetyfirst.com/wordpress.

Check Safety First is a member of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's 'Know Before You Go' campaign and an ABTA Travel partner. The company's global network is headquartered at The Wine Warehouse, The Back, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 5HH, UK.

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