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The stranger behind the mop
26th of May 2017
Are your cleaners actually who they claim to be? Ann Laffeaty asks contract cleaners how they optimise safety and security – both for customers and for the cleaners themselves.
Cleaners are an invisible workforce. They glide silently around our hospitals, schools, hotels and airports, cleaning up our messes often while we sleep.
But who
Assessing client satisfaction
24th of May 2017
Open and honest communication can be a challenge even in the best of relationships, but it can be make or break in commercial situations. Giles Wheeler, operations director at contract cleaning and soft services specialist Facilicom UK, explains how taking advantage of the opportunity for a new perspective is helping his company build its client
EU Ecolabel introduces new criteria
26th of April 2017
The European Commission will introduce stricter limits to its EU Ecolabel criteria for cleaning products in June. The requirements have undergone a two-year revision process.
The major changes are:
•Microplastics will be banned from products
•Removal of the derogation for fragrances classified chronic category 3 (H412);
•Stricter
Use of nanosilver should be limited – report
21st of April 2017
Alarm bells should be ringing about the increasing use of nanosilver to create antimicrobial products, claim researchers at Sydney's University of Technology.
They warn that the presence of nanosilver - which is used to coat medical items such as wound dressings and catheters - has the potential to cause antimicrobial resistance.
Besides its use
WFBSC congress programme focuses on the digital world
13th of April 2017
The programme for this year's World Federation of Building Service Contractors (WFBSC) congress, which takes place in Berlin from September 18-20, has now been finalised. The theme is Cleaning in a Digital World.
Hosting the congress is the German contract cleaning association BIV - the event will take place alongside the CMS exhibition from
Spanish cleaning companies urge government to stop contracting solely on price
6th of April 2017
Spanish contract cleaning association ASPEL has asked the government to follow the example of the Administrator of Railway Infrastructures ADIF and stop using price as the sole evaluation criterion when awarding public contracts. It says other aspects such as quality of service must be taken into account.
ASPEL president Juan Díez de los
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