Home › magazine › latest news › 2021
Cleaning jobs to escape prostitution in Sweden
31st of December 2021
Scandinavian reporter for ECJ Lotte Printz on a successful, socially responsible cleaning initiative
in Sweden.
What do prostitutes, a policeman and cleaning have in common? Well, read on and it’ll all be clear. This is not a bad dad joke, but a true story from Sweden!
The story begins about eight years ago when Simon Widén, the
Cleaning business helps to tackle illiteracy
30th of December 2021
French cleaning companies are providing literacy classes for employees, reports Christian Bouzols.
Some 2.5 million people in France are illiterate, which means they haven’t acquired sufficient reading, writing and numeracy skills to manage daily life situations on their own.
About half these people are employed. The cleaning sector is one
Hygiene misconceptions cleared up
29th of December 2021
Netherlands correspondent John Griep reports from the recent VSR Hygiene Forum where some misconceptions about hygiene were addressed.
“Nowadays, even the chair at the optician is disinfected before the next customer takes his seat. Even though most infections are contracted at home and not in a restaurant or at schools,” said the
Better use of resources possible in hotels?
24th of December 2021
In Germany Katja Scholz looks at cleaning regimes in hotels, and asks if resources could be better used.
I recently spent a week at a spa hotel in the Bavarian Forest. During my stay I became increasingly aware of the hotel’s cleaning routine. Whether in the corridors and hallways, in the rooms, in the lifts, in the restaurant, in the hotel
London's public toilets are inadequate, report finds
23rd of December 2021
Some Londoners are deliberately dehydrating themselves for fear of being unable to find a public toilet when they need one, according to a report. And 91 per cent of the capital's residents think London's public toilet facilities are inadequate.
A new study by the London Assembly Health Committee claims councils should be legally obliged to
‘Fewer than one in five Irish adults wash and dry their hands properly’
22nd of December 2021
Only 17 per cent of Irish people practise adequate personal hygiene when out and about, according to a new report.
Although 93 per cent of adults were found to perform some level of hand hygiene after going to the toilet, only 17 per cent washed and dried their hands to an adequate level when using facilities in childcare, public and food
RSS