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European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2017 winner - Breedweer
4th of May 2018
Facilities services company Breedweer is a social enterprise and won the European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards Workforce award in 2017 for its policies concerning employee relationships, training and diversity & inclusion. Michelle Marshall spoke to its founder Jack Stuifbergen to find out more about the winning business.
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Digitisation - what’s the impact on our cleaners asks UNI’s Stam
3rd of May 2018
Digitisation is one of the hot topics in all areas of business, including cleaning. What are the potential impacts of digitisation at the ground roots of the workforce, the cleaners themselves? This is what concerns Eddy Stam, head of property services at UNI, the global trade union.
UNI Global Union, based in Switzerland, represents more than 20
Half of ambulances in Northern Ireland have 'unsatisfactory hygiene' issues
11th of April 2018
The Department of Health in Northern Ireland has accepted a recommendation to implement a 'special measure' to address concerns about cleanliness and hygiene within the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust (NIAS).
Twenty-one stations there were visited recently by inspectors from the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA),
Could futuristic glass chimneys clean up London’s air?
27th of March 2018
London students have come up with a lava lamp-style chimney designed to remove toxic particles from the city's most polluted streets.
Pluvo is a 13ft high transparent tube with an internal fan. This sucks in the surrounding air and uses a water mist to remove any toxic particles before releasing it back out again. The newly-released air could be
Adlatus Robotics wins Deutsche Bahn contest
23rd of March 2018
DB Services - the contract arm of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway operator -
came up with a novel way of choosing an automated cleaning system to fulfil a huge station cleaning contract recently, as featured on the ECJ website on February 16.
It invited four machines to compete against one other on a 200 square metre course. Robots from
Hand hygiene intervention can lower nursing home mortality: study
19th of March 2018
Improved hand hygiene among nursing home staff could dramatically reduce the mortality rate, according to a new study.
Around 30 per cent fewer deaths were recorded when a multicomponent hand hygiene programme was implemented in 26 French nursing homes.
The programme comprised new hand hygiene dispensers, access to pocket-sized hand-rubs and a
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