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AI - should cleaners be worried?
31st of July 2024
John Griep at VSR in the Netherlands considers the implications of AI for the cleaning sector.
AI has become the talk of the town nowadays. In the cleaning industry too, many applications are currently being developed to automate certain activities. Do cleaners have to fear for their jobs and livelihoods? At VSR, we don’t think so.
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“We must speak with a united voice about the value of cleaning”
30th of July 2024
ECJ editor Michelle Marshall speaks to Jim Melvin, group chief executive officer at The Exclusive Services Group in the UK, about his career in the industry spanning decades. Melvin is also past chairman of the British Cleaning Council (BCC) and past master of the Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners. And he was Leader of the Year in
BOMA Group signs investment agreement with private equity firm
29th of July 2024
BOMA Group, the Belgium-based professional cleaning and hygiene products producer and distributor, has entered an agreement with private equity firm IK Partners. The IK X Fund will invest in the business and partner with the existing management team, who will retain a significant stake.
Operating throughout the Benelux and France since 1974, the
Cleaners reveal the unexpected items found on buses
26th of July 2024
Purses, mobile phones and even a prosthetic limb are among the bizarre items found by cleaners from the Stagecoach East bus company in the UK.
One employee even claims to have discovered a sleeping passenger during his night time shift. "What's the strangest thing I have found left behind?" said cleaner Luis Santos, "Well, one passenger... he was
Patients evacuated after cleaning robot catches fire in hospital
24th of July 2024
Patients at Singapore General Hospital had to be evacuated earlier this month after a cleaning robot caught fire while it was being charged.
The fire alarm was activated after the blaze broke out near a ward at Singapore's largest hospital. A total of 76 patients needed to be moved to other ward areas due to the risk of smoke inhalation.
"The
OCS announces plan to increase apprenticeship placements
22nd of July 2024
UK-based facilities services provider OCShas made a commitment to increase its number of apprenticeship placements in the UK and Ireland to over 1,000 in the next 12-months, along with making investments in its funded learning programme.
The company has experienced a 140 per cent growth in the uptake of its apprenticeships over the past year and
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