Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 9th July 2015 Issue no. 683
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Products Air Products' CEO addresses attack on facility in France Air Products' chairman, president and CEO Seifi Ghasemi had words of sympathy for the victims of last Thursday's attack at its facility in L'Isle-d'Abeau, France. He also expressed appreciation for the assistance and outpouring of support received from around the world, as the company continues to cooperate with the continuing investigation by French and other authorities. Wearable monitoring system dramatically improves handwashing by healthcare workers
IFMA's World Workplace 2015 in Denver takes centre stage after record Facility Fusion attendance
Vax advanced deep cleaning system improves productivity
Eco-friendly cleaning and developing markets spur growth of ingredients in cleaning applications
Bookings now being taken for Pulire Asia Pacific
Kilo: the small machine that delivers big on expectations
Finalists for CMS Purus Awards announced
Clean Middle East Pulire becomes annual event; here's your chance to shape its future
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 163 countries worldwide! When I wrote in last week’s leader about my support of both the London Living Wage and those contractors who pay their cleaners over and above the National Minimum Wage, I was aware that the Chancellor was likely to announce in yesterday’s budget a cut in working tax credits and I called for a fairer pay rate for everyone, so we as taxpayers would no longer have to subsidise firms that could well afford to pay their employees a higher hourly rate than they currently do. I had no idea though that there were plans to bring in a compulsory National Living Wage that before many years will reach £9.00 an hour… Or of the plans to increase the compulsory rate paid by quite as much, quite so soon! The NMW for an adult not in training is currently £6.50 and it has reached that level having gone up in increments of less than 40p a time (but often as little as 10p – 15p) since it was introduced in 1999. A rise to £6.70 this coming October has been on the cards for some months, but employers will now have to increase this to £7.20 from April of next year – by far the biggest rise over a 12 month period ever. I wonder, with cleaning budgets so tight, whether clients will be prepared to pay so much more for their cleaning services to cover the extra labour costs involved, or whether they’ll opt to reduce the services they receive, or even decide to do the cleaning themselves? It’s going to be up to our industry to really sell the benefits of professional cleaning performed by enthusiastic people who are properly trained (as well as housed and fed!) and thus know what they’re doing and have the energy to do it. Perhaps I can do my bit by sharing some of the horror stories you as contractors come across, when you have to ‘pick up the pieces’ of someone else’s mistakes. Do please get in touch if you have anything you’d like to share with those of my readers who employ cleaning contractors – or indeed if you’re a building owner or manager with news of how many problems, poorly executed cleaning can cause. I hear so many stories but as they’re told to me in confidence, I’m unable to use them, so if you can share, please do. It may well be the making of our industry in terms of improving public perception of cleaning as a profession! Please get in touch either by emailing me or posting a comment on our Facebook page. www.facebook.com/Cleanzine
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          This Week's News
Despite low brand loyalty, wipe sales grow faster than overall I&I cleaning market in 2014
'Industrial and Institutional Wipes USA: Market Analysis and Opportunities', issued by worldwide management consulting and market research firm Kline, reveals that several companies, such as market leader Clorox Professional Products or various smaller brands like Metrex Research or Spartan Chemical, are growing faster than the overall market growth. Frosch natural cleaning products to enter US market
Initially, 12 products will be available and these will be distributed by exclusive importer, Ezzi Imports. CHSA launches Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme to increase access to higher education
The successful applicant will be awarded £1,500 per annum for three years. Once fully operational there will be three concurrent recipients a year, each at a different level of study. RAS promotes World Toilet Day Commemoration Fund
RAS, the Restroom Association (Singapore), has introduced The World Toilet Day Commemoration Fund to encourage all preschools and schools to organise toilet-related activities and events in their preschools, schools and community in October or November to commemorate World Toilet Day. Vestex protective attire addresses healthcare uniform contamination concerns
As one indicator of this growth, Vestagen Technical Textiles reports that a variety of healthcare facilities have recently converted to its Vestex protective uniforms. The facilities include Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Emergency Departments, Flagler Hospital and the University of North Florida (UNF) School of Nursing. Chlorine gas danger caused by inadequately trained cleaners leads to heavy fine Pet food manufacturer Sarval has been sentenced this week after employees were exposed to chlorine gas during the cleaning of equipment at the company's Nottinghamshire plant. The Court heard that employees were further exposed to hydrogen sulphide fumes at the same premises when a blockage was cleared from another piece of equipment. The Health & Safety Executive told the Court that on 15th May this year, there was a release of chlorine gas from a scrubber during a routine cleaning operation when hydrochloric acid was added to a sump containing sodium hypochlorite. Franciscan monastery in Pankow is all spruced up with professional support
Over two days in June, employees working in sales, administration and service at the cleaning machine manufacturer Hako, worked together in polishing the building and outdoor facilities of the monastery to a shine, helping out in the soup kitchen and maintaining machines. Managing safety in the papermaking process
This edition updates references to legislation, standards and links to further guidance. It has been restructured since the last edition, to cover tasks in papermaking as well as the machine itself. Survey shows unclean toilets carry consequences for UAE business owners
Magnifying the problem, more than 60% of respondents say they told someone else, posted a comment on social media or complained to management. Such findings indicate undesirable toilet experiences prove costly for business. Seen but not heard... Polaris Plastics joined headliners at Glastonbury
The sacks have been provided by the same Polaris distributor for the last two years and conform to the international environmental standard EN 14342; giving the organisers the assurance that the sacks will fully compost along with the waste in the sack. The compostable sacks are tested to compost naturally and in industrial composting facilities as well as anaerobic digestion facilities. Leverstock Green Lawn Tennis Club: clearly doing something right!
The club was founded back in 1961 by Herbert Secretan, the club's first life president, who donated the land for the club in memory of his daughter Fleur, who had been a keen tennis player. Sentence for cleaning contractor after tree-felling incident leaves worker in wheelchair A school operator and a cleaning contractor have both been fined, after a man sustained permanent spinal injuries while felling a tree on school grounds in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. 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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