How valuable is accreditation?

4th of November 2016 Article by Lynn Webster
How valuable is accreditation?

What is the value of accreditation, asks ECJ’s UK correspondent Lynn Webster.

What is the Value of accreditation? Four years ago the International Accreditation Forum, IAF, commissioned a survey posing this very question, receiving responses from 4,000 managers, operating in a diverse range of organisations and across 40 global economies. Respondents were in the main responsible for quality issues within their organisation,..

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What education can do for you

25th of October 2016 Article by Lotte Printz
What education can do for you

Cleaning is not considered the hottest job on a CV. But it may be a wise career choice - says ECJ’s Danish correspondent Lotte Printz.

September marks the beginning of an academic year. A record-breaking number of students start university studies in Denmark where vocational education has been struggling in recent years to attract applicants. But if job security is anything to go by, choosing vocational education to pursue ..

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Hygiene compliance: how to reduce the occurrence of hospital-acquired infections?

27th of September 2016 Article by Dr Ilham Kadri
Hygiene compliance: how to reduce the occurrence of hospital-acquired infections?

Dr Ilham Kadri, president of the Diversey Care division at Sealed Air, writes her latest blog for ECJ. She looks at the challenges of preventing hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).

In healthcare environments such as hospitals, patients are placed at an acute risk of infection. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the US, 700,000 hospital patients suffer from a..

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Perception is reality

6th of September 2016 Article by Markus Asch
Perception is reality

Markus Asch, vice chairman of the management board at cleaning solutions manufacturer Kärcher and president of EUnited Cleaning, writes his latest blog for ECJ. Following on from his last blog on August 8, he continues to examine the imbalance between the importance of the cleaning sector, and ..

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Why should sustainability be embedded into the culture of every business?

25th of August 2016 Article by Dr Ilham Kadri
Why should sustainability be embedded into the culture of every business?

Dr Ilham Kadri, president of the Diversey Care division at Sealed Air, writes her latest blog for ECJ. Here she explains that business leaders must adopt sustainable practices not as a means to raise reputation, but to ensure their business's longevity.

In the not so distant past, chemical spills and climate change would go widely unnoticed by all. Thankfully, the impact of these environmental disasters and their reporting couldn..

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