Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 29th January 2015 Issue no. 658
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 163 countries worldwide! Although like many people I think I could do a far better job than both this lot and the last incumbent, I’d hate to be running my country right now, with hundreds of thousands of extra residents here and clearly no foresight on the part of the previous government into the issues this would cause when it came to the need to provide essential services. We didn’t have the infrastructure in place and it’s clear that far too little money was set aside to improve it. Money was invested in daft projects, such as flooding the airwaves and national press with expensive advertisements advising us to have our ‘five a day’ (fruit and veg) instead of investing in the things we needed so that all those living here could have a decent quality of life. Now we’re all suffering and instead of the infrastructure improving, cuts are still being made because there just isn’t the money available to pay for everything. It’s all very frustrating but what can we do? One woman – like many of us angry with the way her local environment is going to rack and ruin, has taken matters into her own hands and hired a ‘handywoman’ to clean streets, empty bins, collect litter, wash bus stops and telephone boxes, pick up dog mess, cut hedges, replace broken street lights and do all the sorts of things we used to expect our local authorities to do. Durham County Council has to cut more than £16 million from its budget over the next 12 months so good on Ling Valentine for making the £16,000 available to pay Clare Honey an annual salary to look after Grange Villa in County Durham, plus extra to equip her with a motorised buggy and uniform! The scheme, running since November, has been so successful that it has won the backing of Durham Police, although Ling has had to tell Clare to ignore the local councillors who are claiming she needs a special licence to pick up rubbish… Let’s hope the health & safety police don’t spoil all this and that others, elsewhere, follow suit and take responsibility for their local environment - paid or not! Please get in touch either by emailing me or posting a comment on our Facebook page. www.facebook.com/Cleanzine
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Your business is unique so why isn't your FM?
"There has been a lot of talk in the industry recently about the need for more effective tailoring of service contracts to match the specific needs of different businesses. As an organisation we always set out to make sure that we get the best value when procuring goods and services, which is right and proper. However, I have noticed that the downside of trying to create a one-size-fits-all approach to procurement, which we see regularly in invitations to tender, is that there is a tendency towards commoditisation. BSA 'Responsible Cleaner Scheme' published
To help achieve these goals, RCS members have signed up to a series of commitments (see below). Nanocoatings market worth $14,219.05 million by 2019
The market is expected to show high growth because of the demands made by evolving environmental protection regulations and standards. Luxury Northamptonshire hotel takes a firm hold on hygiene and cleanliness
The hotel has installed a number of specialist hygienic door handles across its facilities in a bid to prevent the spread of germs. By installing the Pure Hold Hygiene Handles, which are mounted onto standard pull-doors in place of normal handles, the hotel joins an exclusive group of health and care facilities to have fitted the Hygiene Handle and is now seeing tangible benefits. Singaporeans taught from young age to respect both washrooms and those that clean them
The Restroom Association of Singapore Inspector was impressed by how much it achieved in just its first year of participation in a programme designed to teach youngsters the importance of good hygiene and to respect washrooms and those that clean them. Hygienalia+Pulire returns to its birthplace - Madrid
The site chosen for the third edition of Hygienalia+Pulire, taking place from 27th - 29th of October 2015, is the 'Pabell-n de Cristal' - a modern building inside the Casa de Campo exhibition centre located in one of the greenest areas of Madrid, a strategic location for both its accessibility and its landscape. HyGreen partners with RCA Medical in Johannesburg, South Africa
Each year, hundreds of millions of patients around the world are affected by healthcare-associated infections as organisms are transmitted from patient to patient via the unwashed hands of healthcare workers. To help combat these infections, the HyGreen system actively reminds healthcare workers if they forget to wash before patient contact and wirelessly records all hand hygiene events in the hospital. System Hygienics awarded a three-year contract at Papworth Hospital
Papworth Hospital is the UK's largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital and the country's main heart and lung transplant centre, treating over 23,700 inpatient and day cases and 65,000 outpatients each year from across the UK. Biovigil Hygiene Technologies lands new hospital contracts and increases staffing levels
"We have doubled the size of our office and operations," says Brent Nibarger, the company's chief sales & marketing officer, who explains that the five-year-old company has hired six people in engineering and tech support over the last year. GEMI launches Supply Chain Sustainability tool
"This new GEMI supply chain sustainability tool has been designed as a guide to help support and assist with strategic sourcing and procurement, by providing visibility into CO2e and water impacts within a financial context," says Bill Gill, assistant vice president, Environmental Affairs, Smithfield Foods and chair of GEMI as well as GEMI's SCS Work Group. CILS' new, durable, computer printable labels, resist solvents
The CILS computer printable surface coating allows variable data (serial numbers, barcodes etc) to be printed in minutes straight from an existing PC and Thermal Transfer printer, providing a hi-tech 'print-and-apply' solvent-resistant labelling solution, eliminating difficult over-laminating and secondary lacquers. Waxie Sanitary Supply improves safety by switching to SmartDrive
Waxie, which distributes quality cleaning chemicals, equipment, disposables and accessories to the building service contractor, school, hospitality, healthcare, military, government, industrial and retail markets, turned to SmartDrive to better protect its drivers and company with a solution that targets its specific risk areas. 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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