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CMS World Summit programme announced
12th of June 2019
Organisers of the CMS World Summit, which takes place alongside the CMS professional cleaning exhibition in Berlin this September, have published a preliminary conference programme.
The key themes are Cleanliness and Hygiene in a Sustainable World, and Future Technologies and Business Opportunities.
Topics to be covered include circular economy;
Essity invests in sustainable fibre technology
11th of June 2019
Essity, one of the world's largest tissue manufacturers, is investing €37 million in technology that will enable the company to produce high quality hygiene tissue products from wheat straw.
This process will offer major sustainability benefits since wheat straw is an agricultural by-product and a renewable resource.
It will come into
Only one-fifth of healthcare workers can recall five hand-washing guidelines
22nd of May 2019
Compliance with the World Health Organisation's "Five Moments for Hand Hygiene" approach among healthcare workers is poor, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
When observed by researchers, staff were only seen to practice hand hygiene at the prescribed times around 35 per cent the time.
And of the 218
EFCI sets political priorities for new EU legislative mandate
17th of May 2019
The European Cleaning and Facility Services Industry (EFCI) - the organisation representing the contract cleaning and facility services industry at EU level in Brussels - has highlighted the main priorities it will be working on to ensure the best conditions for a competitive sector in the EU and enable a modern labour market.
It advocates a
Cleaners reveal most soiled London Underground lines
16th of May 2019
Hundreds of London underground trains are delayed every year because staff have to spend time cleaning soiled carriages, Transport for London has revealed.
Last year more than 800 trains were delayed because they had become unacceptably dirty, according to TFL. More than a quarter of them - 221 - were on the Northern Line while the Jubilee Line
Hand hygiene as vital for patients as for nurses
9th of May 2019
Better hand hygiene among hospital patients is crucial to curb the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria - according to latest research from the USA.
A study from the University of Michigan (UoM), published this month in Clinical Infectious Diseases, found that almost a third (29 per cent) of objects that patients commonly touch - such as nurse
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