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Should we worry about Monkeypox?
19th of July 2022
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
Cleaning practices versus regimes
18th of July 2022
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
A.I.S.E - prioritising the safe use of products and safety of workers
15th of July 2022
A.I.S.E. is the umbrella organisation representing the European detergents and maintenance products industry. Its professional cleaning and hygiene sector manager Aisling O’Kane tells us more about its work.
Professional cleaning product and service providers have an important legal responsibility to provide accurate, up to date safe use
Safe products, healthy bodies
23rd of June 2022
Christian Bouzols in France tells us about a cleaning company that’s been prioritising safety for its staff.
Launching a cleaning company using only green products back in 2009 was far from a safe bet. Omar Akaski had to use all his skills of persuasion to convince his first clients that bleach type products were not useful for sanitising
Don’t lose the focus on cleanliness
21st of June 2022
A new wave of Covid cases in schools has led to increased focus on cleanliness in public spaces – writes Anna Garbagna in Italy.
The new increase of infections recorded in Italy during the month of March, as well as alarming the national health service in fear of a fourth wave of Covid, has once again brought to the fore the ongoing problem
The value of passing on experience
17th of June 2022
The value of mentoring others should never be underestimated, says UK reporter Lynn Webster.
At a recent networking event I attended with some eminent and influential cleaning industry colleagues, we realised that between what was only a fairly small group we actually have hundreds of years of valuable experience between us. This was a
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