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One in four cleaners stop work due to sickness, union finds
1st of March 2022
Large numbers of cleaners, security guards and people who work with machinery are regularly forced to leave their jobs early due to injury or ill health, new figures reveal.
According to the Trades Union Congress one in four cleaners and manual workers will quit the labour market before their retirement age due to health issues. This compares
Read the new edition of ECJ online now
28th of February 2022
The latest edition of ECJ is now available to read online or via the app.
Highlights include:
• European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards - finalists announced
• Healthcare - what are the requirements of a cleaning regime?
• Business - the personal toll on business owners of the past two years
• Sustainability - what does
NHS hand hygiene complaints soar during pandemic
25th of February 2022
Hundreds of patients took issue with their GPs' and dentists' hygiene standards during the first year of the pandemic.
Patients' complaints about hygiene and equipment rose by nearly 50 per cent in the year 2020-2021, with more than two-thirds of these gripes relating to lax hand washing protocols.
A total of 361 formal complaints about hygiene
European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards - everyone is invited!
23rd of February 2022
The European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2022 ceremony is now less than two months away and there's still time to book your ticket to this celebration of cleaning sector success. The gala dinner takes place on April 28 at Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels.
The finalists of the awards - founded by European Cleaning Journal - were announced recently.
Sodexo joins with OCS to form pan-industry Modern Slavery Council
21st of February 2022
In the UK, Sodexo has joined forces with OCS to spearhead the creation of a new council comprising of 19 organisations to form a cross-industry group to tackle modern slavery, supported by government.
The new service and infrastructure modern slavery council will work together to eradicate risk, remove the crime and support the victims of
Equivalent of 22 years’ cleaning in 10 months on Transpennine Express
18th of February 2022
Cleaners on the TransPennine Express train network in the UK have used more than 168,000 litres of cleaning solution - enough to fill 557 baths - in the past 10 months to keep their trains Covid-safe, according to the company.
The network's 150 "Sanitation Busters" have also used more than 2,233km of cleaning tissue, which if rolled out would
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