Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 12th July 2012 Issue no. 530
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  International News
Products Researchers use automated UV disinfection to prevent C. diff in veterans care facility In a recently published article, 'Decontamination with ultraviolet radiation to prevent recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in two roommates in a long-term care facility', (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 05/2012), researchers shared the results of a trial that used Tru-D SmartUVC to prevent coincident recurrent CDI episodes in roommates in a Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF). |
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! One of my daughter's university friends has a holiday job in a local high school, working as a grounds / building maintenance assistant - and he and his colleagues have an interesting schedule to follow. Apparently twice a day after the school breaks, they have to spend 20 minutes litter picking! There are, I gather, plenty of bins around both the canteen area and outside, as well as at the end of each corridor. But do the pupils use them? No they don't! They drop the litter wherever they are (despite often being almost within touching distance of a bin) and it's the maintenance team's job to go around after them and pick it up. Forget for a minute the fact that it's my taxes (and yours if you live in the UK and are working) which are paying for this ridiculous part of the daily schedule and consider for one minute the message this is sending out to our young people. And then think about what they're going to be like as adults and what they're going to be teaching their own children about litter. Blood boiling? So is mine. And I'm not going to let this lie. Yours,
  This Week's News
Hundreds of Houston janitors go on strike The following is a release from the Service Employees International Union based in the US, issued yesterday: Last night, following a month of protests and one-day strikes across the city of Houston, hundreds of Houston janitors walked off the job in the first city-wide janitors' strike since 2006. The janitors have called the strike to protest employer's malicious conduct. With hundreds of striking workers already rallying in downtown Houston, the strike is expected to escalate and could possibly spread to other cities. The 2012 FM Market Survey needs your help! FM services provider Interserve, Sheffield Hallam University and i-FM have come together to launch one of the most important, most accurate and most informative surveys yet seen in UK FM. Please take part. The Cleaning Industry and workplace slips and trips: a warning Workplace slips incidences account for over a third in reported major injuries, two fatalities per year and 50% of all reported accidents to members of the public that happen in workplaces - all attributable to lack of cleaning, lack of due regard to the risks of wet floors and even to direct cleaning activities. Countries outside the EU drive Idrobase Group to a +11% increase in sales
Creating a virtuous cycle in food hygiene
New figures published for fatally injured workers New official statistics published yesterday show the number of workers fatally injured in Britain last year remains largely unchanged. The Health & Safety Executive has released provisional data for April 2011 to March 2012, which shows 173 workers were killed - down two from the previous year. CMS 2013: Worldwide canvassing campaign under way
Canvassing efforts, press work and the promotional campaign for CMS 2013 Berlin - Cleaning.Management.Services. have been launched on an international scale, with application forms already sent out to exhibitors. From 24th to 27th September 2013, the international trade fair for cleaning equipment, facility management and services, and the supporting programme of conference events will take place on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds. Silverdell secures contracts in Canada worth £13 million
A quarter of sick days are due to musculoskeletal problems
DMG team up with Matrix in Scotland DMG Floorcare is a small family owned business - run by Marie and David Grant with their team of Customer Service Agents and Engineers. Marie and David have more than 35 years of combined experience in the industry behind them (Management staff are all previous employees of Floorep Ltd) Don't forget the ducts, says Teinnova Spanish company Teinnova, which specialises in the manufacture of equipment for cleaning grease from products and surfaces in kitchens; such as ducts, hoods and filters, welcomes legislation that makes those responsible for kitchen cleaning, aware of their responsibilities. The Cleanzine Archive Search We keep an extensive archive of news stories and product information that have featured in past issues of The Cleanzine. If you would like to run a search of the The Cleanzine web site using the search tool below please just go ahead by entering in the name of the person, product or company or any other key words that you are looking for. How to contact us at The Cleanzine:
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Regent Cleaning gets the silver
Sustainable Restaurant Association helps caterers clean up their credentials The Sustainable Restaurant Association has approved its first supplier of cleaning products in a bid to ease restaurants' concerns about their environmental impact. Delphis Eco, the UK's manufacturer of ecological cleaning products, has already started supplying SRA member restaurants, including the central London-based pub group Cubitt House. |
