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ANIMATED
HISTORY
 
Tourist House Ghiberti acts in conformity with the Laws in force thus to secure the Clients a calm and safe stay as to both structure and services.
Our staff is highly qualified and employed according to the regulations in force.
The gate is always closed and no person from outside can access the building. Clients are given a magnetic key opening the two outside gates of the building, the entrance and their own room. The reception is open all day long till late night, however, there is always a person on duty, for any eventuality.
As the structure is quite small, it is not compulsory to respect all fire regulations, however, the hotel is equipped with smoke tracers and anti-fire materials such as curtains, mattresses etc. In addition, the doors of the rooms are anti-fire REI45 (direct fire resistant for 45 minutes).
Gas tracers connect to gas supply self-locks are installed in all strategic points. Extinguishers and power system, controlled on a regular basis, complete the safety.
The staff attends the compulsory anti-fire and first aid courses.
The water comes from the town main waters, and is already drinkable. In order to reduce the calcareous percent, we have installed a Culligan softener. A special filter keeps the small foreign bodies from passing through the pipes.
A special attention is attributed to the fight of Legionella pneumophila bacteria, a cause of many deaths worldwide, even recently.
According to the laws, we are not obliged to adopt any special measures for fighting the bacteria, however, our main priority is our Clients’ health.
Therefore, the have opted for the following precautions:
- Automatic inlet by a proportioning pomp of small quantities of chlorine into the waterworks (minimum 0,2 ppm).
- Hot water above 50° C.
- Weekly inspection of both chlorine quantity and hot water temperature.
- Six-monthly cleaning and hygienisation of waterworks and tanks.
- Six-monthly tests of the waters by an independent laboratory, attested by the competent authorities.
- Six-monthly antibacterial spray cleaning of the A/C system.
- Daily inlet of chlorine in the Jacuzzi whirlpool.
    The safety of our IT system is ensured by an outside server (firewall) thus to protect the data of the Clients using our computers.  
    As to the hygienic part of kitchen and food stuffs, we strictly follow the guidelines of HACCP (risk and critical control points analysis), recognized and adopted in Europe and worldwide.
The staff must attend the courses.
 
    Last but not least, and in the light of the world’s efforts to reduce the pollution, we have installed energy save system in the rooms interrupting the power when the Clients are not inside, sensors in the corridors turn on the lights only on passing, flushing devices with double push-button (3 and 6 litres). We cannot install photovoltaic solar panels as not authorized in the historical centre of Florence by the Ministry of Art.  
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