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Cleaning chemicals - minimising risk
14th of June 2022
Some chemical cleaning products pose a potential risk to staff – particularly when inhaled. ECJ finds out what employers and associations are doing to protect staff members and minimise the risk to cleaners’ lungs.
THE WORKPLACE IS A SAFER place today than it has ever been before. Or so we like to think. Safety came fairly low down
Cleaning staff unwilling to learn?
13th of June 2022
Do cleaning staff have a resistance to learning new things? VSR’s John Griep is ECJ’s Dutch reporter.
Thirty-nine per cent of cleaning staff say they are not particularly willing to learn new things. At least, this is one of the results from a sector analysis published by the Dutch Council for Industrial Relations in the Cleaning and
Radio talk show for cleaning sector
10th of June 2022
A German radio station has its own talk show for the contract cleaning business, reports Katja Scholz.
From apprentices to master craftsmen, from carpenters to contract cleaners, from Hamburg to Zurich – Radio Handwerker (radio for skilled tradespeople) has been a daily source of relevant information along with music and discussion on
Sustaining society with professional cleaning solutions
9th of June 2022
A.I.S.E. is the umbrella organisation representing the European detergents and maintenance products industry. Its professional cleaning and hygiene sector manager Aisling O’Kane tells us more about its work.
A.I.S.E. has been the voice of the European detergents and maintenance products industry for 70 years, representing manufacturers and
i-team and Avular announce strategic cobotic partnership
8th of June 2022
In the Netherlands, cleaning machines producer i-team and mobile robotics specialist Avular have formed a strategic partnership with the objective of bringing cobotic solutions to the professional cleaning industry
The two companies, based in Eindhoven, have formed the joint venture i-botics bv. Its first launch is the cobotic-65, a fully
SK Clean - EFCI’s report on the outcome of two years’ work
7th of June 2022
Isabel Yglesias at EFCI reports on the outcomes of the project SK-Clean: Digitalisation in the Cleaning Sector, Supporting the Skills Transition for Cleaning Agents.
At the beginning of April the EFCI presented at the Viennese Building Cleaning Academy (the Bundesinnung der chemischen Gewerbe und der Denkmal-, Fassaden- und Gebäudereiniger,
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