Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 21st February 2013 Issue no. 558
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  International News
Products Kärcher wins unfair competition lawsuit against Chinese manufacturer
EU landfills or incinerates 60% of its municipal waste: "Must do better!" says FoE
Auditors slam Europe's waste system - for waste
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! I finished the news for Cleanzine early this week but decided to leave the leader for a couple of days to see if something interesting came up that I’d want to write about. I checked my Facebook page and immediately stumbled across what was to become the basis for my leader. Look at this… a short video which shows the dramatic impact mankind’s attitude to waste disposal has on the wildlife of an otherwise uninhabited island 2000km from any other coastline. Please watch (it’s just a couple of minutes) and react accordingly:
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     This Week's News
Bitesize learning with the WoolSafe Academy
Tax time for BSCs: be aware of the five tax hot spots Over the next couple of months, most building service contractors in the US will start getting their records together, ready to file their taxes. It is important for BSCs to understand what the Internal Revenue Service typically scrutinises on a business tax return and hopefully, avoid an audit. In this article (which has useful information for BSCs everywhere), Tornado Industries Business of the Business offers some useful tips on how to tackle business taxes. RIA members create cleaning solution for flood damage
Helping business to be 'smart' about waste and resources A new course launched by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management will help businesses across the UK to cut their waste costs, comply with all the necessary legislation and become more resource efficient. IFMA: The sustainable office in action - new 'Service Center of Excellence'
Prochem Europe customer is UK's fastest-growing franchise
AsepticSure disinfection system proving successful in Canadian hospital trials
Working with Contamination Control Company (C3), an Ontario-based provider of AsepticSure services in Canada, Medizone says it has unequivocally demonstrated the safety and ease of operation of its AsepticSure disinfection process in a functioning healthcare setting. Room turnaround times were less than 90 minutes.. The Brazilian Association for the Institutional Cleaning Market (Abralimp), tells us that the 23rd Higiexpo - Fair of Products and Services for Hygiene, Cleaning & Environmental Preservation and the 24th Higicon - International Congress of the Professional Cleaning Market., being held from August 13rd to 15th in São Paulo, are set for success. Stackable 10 litre container cuts weight and adds impact
Will you be attending AusClean WA?
One of the popular education sessions is 'Changing with the times' presented by Stefan Nehez (pictured) General Manager, Pacvac. Textile manufacturer sentenced over worker's death
Forklift truck operator James Welka, 61, died in hospital just hours after the incident at WE Rawson's warehouse in Castle Bank Mills, Wakefield, in February 2010. Game on for LPM Cleaning at SONY Computer Entertainment Europe
Restaurant fined £24,000 plus costs, for cleaning and hygiene offences A Court has been told that a restaurant which was so dirty that it was nearly ordered to close immediately when visited by an environment health officer.
Liverpool magistrates heard that during a seven month period between March 2012 and October 2012 the Buffet Star, on Hanover House, 87 -91 Hanover Street, a self-service buffet restaurant in the City Centre serving Chinese and Thai cuisine, was visited six times and on each occasion serious and repeated contraventions of the food safety legislation were found. 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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Our weekly updated Hospital Hygiene features current developments and product solutions cleaning and hygiene industry manufacturers are coming up with. Read More. Recent UK News
New report gives top considerations for hiring commercial window cleaners
National winner John puts the Who? in Which?
Legal ruling on criminal record disclosures requires contractors/employers to take extra care Some cleaning contracts require those doing the cleaning to have a Disclosure & Barring Service check (formerly known as the CRB check) and while this has had its problems in the past - mainly due to the length of time it took for the checks to be carried out and their cost, when one considers the rapid turnover of cleaning staff - the process has run fairly smoothly in recent years. All that could be about to change though, with the recent ruling by the Court of Appeal, that the law compelling employees to disclose all previous criminal convictions to employers infringes the Convention for Human Rights. Don't let the Winter Vomiting Virus take hold
Cleaning contractors wade in to clear flooded NHS site
While other NHSBT sites around the country took in stocks of blood to continue supplying hospitals in the Midlands, South West and parts of the South East, Filton - home to one of the world's largest blood processing centres - was closed as the fire services pumped water from both inside and outside the waterlogged premises. Major expansion plans at Avica
Room disinfection robot gains UK acceptance after successful NHS trials
The remote-controlled Tru-D SmartUVC device is an automated total room disinfection system that uses SmartUVC technology to accurately measure and deliver the lethal UV dose required to break the DNA of bacteria, virus and spores to render them harmless. It is engineered to silently disinfect shadowed and line-of-sight surfaces from a single placement within a room, overcoming human error such as missed and difficult-to-reach surfaces, improper chemical applications, incorrect placement, and unreliable "blind-dose guessing" associated with lesser advanced and disruptive strobe light offerings. It is said to kill 99.9% of infectious room-surface pathogens in a fraction of the time now required for cleaning.. Cleaning industry welcomes wider support for the living wage The British Cleaning Council says it is delighted to see increasing support for the Living Wage. Advocates of the policy now include Jeremy Warner, assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain's leading business and economics commentators. FMA Certificate accredited by RICS The Facilities Management Association has announced that the FMA Certificate will now officially be recognised by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. |
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