Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 17th October 2013 Issue no. 595
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Katrin Easy Pack is hitting the streets running...
CMS posts record exhibitor and visitor numbers ... confirming its role as a leading European event for this sector. The event had an even greater international dimension, with highly satisfied exhibitors and visitors keen to sing its praises. It left us all in an extremely positive mood as far as the industry's overall economic outlook is concerned.The organisers tell us that some 361 companies from 20 countries exhibited this year, compared with 354 exhibitors from 19 countries at the last event in 2011. VoleoPro - a new versatile and compact trolley from Vileda Professional
Making the most of every component and every cm of space…
Tornado cleans up without water and without chemicals
The aptly named new Tornado mobile jet system is based on a worldwide patented negative pressure jet principle. Designed as a mobile compact device, it is no bigger than a standard industrial vacuum cleaner, but the combination of units, which incorporate a jet cap and jet lance, a filtering cartridge and dust separation unit, as well as the container for the required granulates, creates a fast and efficient, negative pressure cleaning system which is ideal for removing graffiti etc. CMS Purus Awards: the winners - Kärcher
Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG - one of the three, received this highly sought-after award for its BR 35/12 C compact scrubber-drier.
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! New research released from the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, reveals that 36% of line managers have not received any training for their role and that time for effective line management is too often squeezed or lost in favour of more immediate task-orientated priorities. And with 24% of managers facing situations where they often have to put the interests of their organisation above the interests of their team members, important relationships - which could otherwise drive high performance working - are damaged. The survey, ‘Real-life leaders: closing the knowledge-doing gap’ reveals that efforts to foster positive manager behaviours are being undermined by the lack of a consistent message of what organisations expect of managers. The research also found that 48% of companies promoted individuals into managerial roles based on their performance record rather than people management or leadership skills and that 28% have not taken any action when they have received poor feedback on line managers! “We hear organisations lament the lack and quality of leaders, but we aren’t seeing evidence of their commitment to drive good leadership and management practices,” reports Ksenia Zheltoukhova, Research Associate at CIPD. “Businesses address issues such as poor customer service or faulty machinery straightaway, whereas bad management across organisations is tolerated to a shocking degree.” My first thought on reading the report was that if more attention were to be paid to training line managers in the first place, a lot less time and money would need to be spent on staffing and training customer service departments. Imagine the goodwill consumers would feel if an operation ran so slickly (because everyone knew what they were supposed to be doing and when) that they were able to quickly speak to a human when calling the organisation, rather than having to go through one of those exasperating menus and being subjected to lengthy waits while listening to music on a loop! It all seems so simple to me…
Yours,
        This Week's News
Kensington & Chelsea council meeting lobbied to support £8.55 London Living Wage As this week's issue of Cleanzine was 'put to bed', GMB, the union representing workers employed by OCS, was about to lobby the full council meeting of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, to support a motion asking the council to pay a London living wage of £8.55, to direct and contracted staff.
This fits in with the GMB ongoing campaign for OCS cleaners who have already taken three days of strike action for a London living wage of £8.55 per hour. They currently earn £7.18 per hour. Cleaning Equipment & Materials firms have increased in value, argues new study A new pricing guide from business analyst Plimsoll Publishing confirms there are some encouraging signs for the UK's largest Cleaning Equipment & Materials companies.
Plimsoll's latest research, which analyses the largest 673 Cleaning Equipment & Materials companies, states average company value within the Cleaning Equipment & Materials sector has increased by 1% and 176 firms have seen their value soar by 20%. Idiots on ladders: Ladder Exchange focuses on training; number trained jumps 40%
Decontaminating sanitiser dispensers in healthcare environments: new studies show the best options Simple remedies - from keeping the antibacterial gel dispenser clean, to giving healthcare workers their own hand sanitiser - can help keep patients safe by decreasing contamination in operating and recovery rooms, suggest two studies presented at the recent 'Anesthesiology 2013' annual meeting.
Keeping hand sanitisers clean decreases their bacterial contamination by 75%, while healthcare workers with personal gel bottles attached to their belts were nearly 30% more likely to use the hand sanitiser, the studies found. Zapper launches Scan-to-Pay to help SMEs who suffer from late payments
Excitement heightens for new window cleaning company
Hygienic steam cleaning for professionals
IFMA World Workplace 2013 attendance figures set stage for New Orleans 2014
With representatives from 49 countries in attendance, the global impact of the conference was strongly reinforced. Planning has already begun for World Workplace North America 2014, set for September 17th - 19th in New Orleans. ICRC - Madagascar: Fighting the plague within prisons and beyond
The 2013 Loo of the Year Awards presentation event: reserve your ticket now!
Hako Group unveils new website
'They dropped everything for GD - just as they did in the old days'
ISS Restoration unveils enormous, purpose-built flood and fire training house
Gumwand donates to High Street Revival initiative
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Cleaning Expo Scotland 2014 "selling well" says organiser
Deals with water damage; cleans hard floors and facades
The new CEBE Benovac FE has auto feed function as well as automatic discharge, which makes it ideal for use in water damage restoration, as well as for hard floor and facade cleaning. The hard floor tool and the wall tool make it possible to clean with up to 80 bar of pressure while at the same time removing the cleaning solution - from vertical surfaces too. Abranopp - the revolutionary cleaning system for structured floors!
Structured flooring is problematic in terms of cleaning and care in that the deeper zones of the structure cannot be optimally reached and cleaned using tried and tested conventional cleaning products such as super pads and cleaning brushes. |
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