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The changing challenges of the hand hygiene market
22nd of August 2022 Article by Chris Wakefield
Chris Wakefield, managing director UK & Ireland, GOJO Industries-Europe examines the hurdles facing the hand hygiene market.
What a rollercoaster the past few years have been for the cleaning industry, and specifically the hand hygiene sector. The journey to the present day has had plenty of ups and downs with a myriad of hurdles to cross to keep people and spaces safe and healthy.
But each hurdle was successfully ove..
The general mood in Germany's contract cleaning sector
12th of August 2022 Article by Katja Scholz
For the fourth year in succession now, the Federal Guild of Contract Cleaners (BIV) has carried out a spring survey. This enables BIV member companies to present a picture of the general mood in the sector and to give their views on market forecasts, revenue projections and topics of current interest. Hence this year's spring survey also reflected the war in Ukraine and its..
Minimum wage increase pressure
5th of August 2022 Article by Christian Bouzols
Christian Bouzols in France explains the increase in the minimum wage is causing stress in the sector.
Due to inflation, the official minimum wage in France was increased on May 1, the third increase in just seven months. This minimum wage, called the SMIC (Salaire Minimum de Croissance) now amounts to €1,302.64 net a month. The two million workers who were on the SMIC are the..
Should we worry about Monkeypox?
27th of July 2022 Article by Lynn Webster
Lynn Webster in the UK on how the cleaning sector is assessing another virus in the news.
As we are becoming less fraught after dealing with the height of the Covid pandemic, and some level of normality returns to our lives, we face the potential risk from the recent changes in behaviours of another envelope virus. Monkeypox.
Whilst we are assured by medical and epidemiolog..
Cleaning practices versus regimes
19th of July 2022 Article by John Griep
Dutch reporter John Griep on how sector body VSR trains the cleaning inspectors who visit client sites.
What do you do, as a cleaning inspector, if cleaning light switches is still in the cleaning regimen while almost all the lights in the building you are in are turned on and off automatically by sensors? Typically, this is the kind of situation you can run into in this professio..
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