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Young cleaner wins national title
19th of April 2024
ECJ correspondent in Germany Katja Scholz reports from the latest Craft Skills championship.
The winner of the 72nd German Craft Skills championship in the contract cleaning sector is Sarah Lutz. The 20-year-old from Baden-Württemberg in south Germany was the only female trainee worker along with nine men at the start of the competition,
Hygiene in healthcare - cleaning on the front line
18th of April 2024
What are the main challenges facing healthcare cleaning personnel today? And what can be done to make their lives easier? Ann Laffeaty finds out.
CLEANERS IN THE HEALTHCARE sector have had a tough few years, to say the least. Working throughout the global pandemic was stressful and life-threatening enough, but this was closely followed by the
Wages and Olympics bring doubt
17th of April 2024
French cleaning firms face uncertainty in 2024 as wages rise and the Olympic Games take place there. Christian Bouzols tells us more.
The year 2023 was an active but quite varied one for French cleaning companies and their clients. The economic background encouraged a high number of takeovers among companies large and small.
According to Patrick
Sustainable washroom strategy
16th of April 2024
With reports suggesting consumers are looking for more eco-conscious products, Alasdair Sharp from Satino by WEPA explains how facilities managers can curate a more sustainable hygiene strategy to help achieve the EU’s goal to be climate-neutral by 2050.
AS ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES take centre stage within businesses, one area that may be
Solutions to combat poverty risk
15th of April 2024
Low-skilled workers in the Dutch cleaning sector are at a higher risk of poverty, explains VSR’s John Griep.
A 2021 report by the Social Economic Council (SER) shows low-skilled workers in the Dutch cleaning sector are at greater risk of poverty. The issue occurs in all sectors with relatively more minimum wages, temporary workers and short
Sustainability - opportunity to transform
12th of April 2024
The impact you have on the world is changing. Are you taking advantage of it? As an industry, we need to change how we think and talk about cleaning, says Malene Thiele, global director, ESG & sustainability at Nilfisk.
Global warming and the extreme weather events often linked to it are key reasons why. Because no matter where we live,
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