Office space is Definition, usage patterns, norms and requirements

The topic of our conversation is quite large. Service premises can be located both in industrial and office buildings, and in transport. Another type stands out - residential. A lot of questions arise on the job description of cleaners of this kind of premises. We will provide explanations about all of the above during the course of the article.

What is it?

Service premises are rooms, departments intended for placement and rest of personnel. In addition, this category includes classrooms, departments where equipment, tools, and personal belongings of workers are located.

Offices for placing officials in a public organization can also be called office premises. For example, the office of the security chief in a shopping center.

Service premises are departments whose purpose and quantity depend on a specific organization and its spectrum of activities. We give specific examples.

Metro office space

Here, office premises are offices for station personnel. Their area, quantity are normalized by building codes of the Russian Federation. They can be arranged in various areas: in the lobby, at or below the train platform. These are special cabins in workings, offices on intermediate floors, in passages, etc.

The requirements for the whole variety are the same: the mandatory presence of supply and exhaust ventilation, lighting and heating. Must comply with all operating instructions, be convenient to use, meet fire safety requirements. Passages to the office premises must be closed to passengers. For example, to be locked.

Special requirements for premises at the station

Service rooms are also some of the features specific to the subway:

• Centralization posts, line points are located at the platform level, have anti-noise protection. At the stations under construction, they are located on the side of development paths.
• At individual stations, buffets for workers, locomotive crews can be equipped.
• If the room is constantly occupied by working personnel, then it must be closed by noise-proofing installations: blocks, slag, etc.
• The premises of the so-called cubes (compartments where water is heated) are located at the level of platforms, vestibules, station passages from each of its sides. This is done to facilitate the work of staff. There are water taps and special drainage for draining dirty water. If hot water is not supplied directly directly, then it is heated in electric tanks.
• The presence of electric drying cabinets is mandatory - for drying rags, which clean the surfaces at the station.
• Sanitary cash desks require a faucet with a sink.
• Finishing of office premises is carried out according to their purpose, the aesthetic appearance of the entire station.

  

Examples of office space in the subway

At the metro station, office premises are the following names:

• Station duty officer. In adjacent to it is equipment, control panels for station devices.
• Office of the head of the metro station.
• Office of the senior cashier.
• Line cashier's office.
• A room with cash registers, necessarily protected by sound-absorbing lining.
• Cash room with adjoining rooms and access to the room for money conversion.
• Police room, guard. As a rule, it is located on the opposite side of the box office.
• Station staff cleaning room. Equipped with lockers for changing clothes, compartments for storing equipment.
• Room for eating and resting workers at the station.
• Cube and dryer are located on each floor, in each lobby.
• Pantry of the station chief.
• Storage room for sawdust.
• Medical Center. As a rule, these are two adjacent rooms located in the lobby.
• Premises for inventory - cleaning devices, stairs, etc. They are located in places where they can simply be rolled out onto the platform.
• Male and female toilets with washbasins.
• Centralization point at stations with track development.
• If the work of other workers is involved at the station, then it is additionally equipped with workshops, showers, changing rooms, pantries and other office premises necessary for instructions.

We examined an example at a metro station. Now let's move on to another popular category - hotel.

Hotel facilities

The following are related to office space:

• Director’s office, supplemented by a reception desk.
• Office of the Deputy Director and Chief Engineer.
• Rooms for the engineering staff, manager and storekeeper of the hotel.
• Cashbox.
• Office of the chief accountant.
• Planning department.
• First-aid post.
• Archive.
• "Red corner".
• Dispatching engineering equipment premises.
• The room is the main maid.
• Equipment for technical support management.
• Central linen.
• Premises of communication centers.
• The range of repair shops is metalwork, plumbing, carpentry, premises for low-current systems and electrical equipment, technical support and elevators, drapery, wallpaper, painting, etc.
• Warehouses for various purposes - for furniture, building materials, consumables, etc.
• Lounge for staff.
• Radio node.
• Laundries.
• The room for the janitor.
• Garbage collection common chambers, etc.

  

Features of the organization of office space in hotels

We give the norms of office space on specific examples:

• Warehouses. Often designed without natural light. It happens that the number and area of ​​such office space under the project does not match the need for them in practice. Therefore, you have to redo rooms, other offices for warehouses and change houses.
• First-aid posts. Necessary for first aid to both guests and staff. In some hotels they are not provided for by the project, so the rooms and other rooms are being re-equipped. It is rational to place a first-aid post on the upper or on the technical floor of the building. According to the standards, it is necessary for hotels with more than 200 places. It consists of at least two rooms: a waiting room and a doctor's office. The area of ​​the first-aid post depends on the scale of the hotel - from 14 to 32 m ².
• Premises for engineering equipment systems - heating, ventilation, water supply, lighting, air conditioning, centralized dust and waste disposal, power supply systems, as well as low-voltage devices (monogram broadcasting, telephony, selector, teletype, television, pneumatic mail). Important points of security and fire alarms, search, as well as automated hotel management systems.
• Central control rooms. They include a room with control equipment, a room for staff, a bathroom.
• Central linen - separate for clean and dirty laundry. Must have natural light, a convenient for personnel unloading platform, isolated from dirty things, a room for fixing bedding. As for the room for dirty laundry, it should be connected to the opposite with a special laundry outlet, a freight elevator.
• Domestic facilities for staff. These are locker rooms, showers, sanitary units, cubicles for personal hygiene, individual lockers for storing outerwear, personal items, racks or wardrobes for outerwear.

  

Residential category

Separately, we consider office living quarters. They are intended for workers to live in connection with the nature of their working relationship with state authorities, the local government system, an enterprise, a municipal institution, service, appointment to a public post, election to an elected place in local government or state power. The term "service housing" will be synonymous.

Housing Law

Art. 92 of the Russian Housing Code classifies them as specialized housing or specialized housing.

And here's an important question: what can be called an office building? Someone will bring here not only apartments, but also rooms in dormitories, accommodation with other tenants. This is not true. Only apartments are included in the category. The employee occupies this premises, based on labor relations with his employer. Rooms and places in hostels can simply be provided for temporary use to a citizen.

Who is eligible for service housing?

Office housing is provided for the following categories of workers:

• Deputies of all levels.
• Military personnel.
• Officials.
• Law enforcement officers.
• Workers in emergency services.
• Janitors
• Foresters, gamekeepers, as well as persons working in fisheries.
• Judges.
• Taxes.
• Customs officers.
• Teachers.
• Workers in the medical field.

  

Industrial and office cleaner

This post belongs to the category of workers. A worker is appointed to it and is relieved of his duties by order of the director of the organization. The work reports to the head of his structural unit.

The office cleaner or janitor must know (a) the following:

• Requirements for industrial sanitation.
• Cleaning rules.
• Concentrations and purpose of used disinfectants.
• Rules for the operation of the equipment used.

  

Job description

The job description (office cleaner) includes the following:

• Implementation of daily cleaning according to the approved schedule. This is the cleaning of production halls, refrigeration units, locker rooms, showers, staff lounges, meals, officials' offices and so on.
• Preparation of various necessary solutions for cleaning and disinfecting walls, ceilings, floors, window sills and other surfaces.
• Transportation of waste, garbage from office premises to a designated place.
• Accounting for issued equipment, detergents, cleaning materials.
• Not only cleaning office premises, but also the mandatory cleaning and drying of equipment after each use.
• Filling of drinking tanks, cleaning and disinfection of bins, trash baskets.
• Washing and disinfection of sanitary facilities, walk-in closets and other common areas.

Thus, we examined the office space from all sides. In addition, they touched on something similar to the concept of "official housing."