Cleaning Industry news

• SAVORTEX announces supplier partnership with CBRE

  12-10-2022 13:42 via chtmag.com
  Hand hygiene technology firm, SAVORTEX, is now an approved supplier to global commercial real estate company, CBRE GWS (Global Workplace Solutions).
  SAVORTEX and its products will now be part of CBRE’s ESG catalogue – designed to provide CBRE customers with options that are cost conscious, but which can help them all achieve net zero.
  The featured products are SAVORTEX’s Smart and Video-connected Hand Dryer and Hand Sanitiser Dispensers – both ranges are the first to be i
  
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• Most office spaces are not set-up to support employee mental wellbeing

  12-10-2022 12:41 via fmj.co.uk
  A study by workplace design company, Unispace, has revealed that most office spaces are not set-up to support mental wellbeing in today’s hybrid working environment.
  The report, Mental health and the office: Understanding the current, and future relationship, between workspaces and wellbeing, published to coincide with World Mental Health Day (10 October) found that a staggering 95 per cent of employees would like to see improvements to their physical office space, suggesting that many are
  
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• Water Safety Forum

  12-10-2022 11:54 via fmj.co.uk
  Anil Madan, Non-Residential Marketing Manager at Ideal Standard reports on an event to discuss waterborne pathogens and the role of facilities managers and multi-disciplinary teams in healthcareFollowing the recent update to British Standard 8580-2: Risk assessments for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other waterborne pathogens, Armitage Shanks brought together experts from across the healthcare sector at the company’s London Specification and Design Centre in Clerkenwell. Attendees included cl
  
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• ESS takes Met Police catering deal

  12-10-2022 11:27 via fmj.co.uk
  ESS, the Defence, Energy and Government Services sector of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has secured a three-year catering and hospitality services contract with the Metropolitan Police.
  The terms of the deal will see ESS delivering catering and hospitality services for officers and staff across the Met estate, including headquarters buildings, office facilities, stations, custody suites and the Hendon training centre. The company will also provide planned and emergency operational feedin
  
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• Cleaning industry body says the Home Secretary’s remarks about migrant workers and unskilled labour are ‘divorced from reality’

  12-10-2022 10:42 via fmj.co.uk
  The Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s comments about reducing migrant workers entering the country have been branded as “ridiculous”, “completely out of touch” and “divorced from reality” by leaders of the cleaning industry.
  The £59 billion cleaning, hygiene and waste sector has been suffering from “severe” staff shortages since a tightening of immigration rules last year left cleaning and hygiene professionals incorrectly labelled as &
  
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• Home Secretary’s comments branded ‘ridiculous’ and ‘out of touch’ by top business leaders

  12-10-2022 10:36 via cleaningmag.com
  Leaders from the cleaning sector have branded the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s comments about reducing migrant workers entering the country as ‘ridiculous’, ‘completely out of touch’ and ‘divorced from reality’.
  
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• Webinar stresses why FMs need to adopt digital tools to help meet ESG goals

  12-10-2022 10:06 via fmj.co.uk
  Just a third (33 per cent) of respondents polled during yesterday’s Webinar on the Use of tech in helping FMs deliver ESG, (hosted by FMJ with PlanRadar) are on track to meet ESG goals. However, just over half (56 per cent) already utilise digital tech to help meet compliance.
  This agreed the panel, which comprised Robert Norton UK Regional Leader for PlanRadar, Alan Stenson, CEO at neutral carbon zone and Michael Sewell, Plan Zero Director at Mitie illustrates the wider role that can be p
  
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• Jangro celebrates two years of Planet Mark certification

  12-10-2022 09:34 via fmj.co.uk
  Jangro, the largest network of independent janitorial distributors in the UK and Ireland, is delighted to announce that it has achieved its second year of being Planet Mark certified.
  This renewal means that the company has been successful in reducing its carbon emissions by at least five per cent over the past twelve months. In fact, in the latest reporting period (1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2021), emission sources including electricity, natural gas, water, fleet, business travel, waste, and pap
  
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• Tube cleaners to get free travel on London Underground

  12-10-2022 01:00
  People tasked with the job of cleaning London's public transport facilities are to qualify for free travel in the capital, according to Mayor Sadiq Khan.Transport for London in-house employees already receive free transport within the city. But Khan has asked TFL to extend the offer to the city's lowest-paid contract workers, who include security and catering staff as well as cleaners."London's transport workers, who did so much for us during the pandemic, continue to play an essential and much-
  
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• Slimline version

  12-10-2022 01:00
  Dudley Industries has launched a new, slimline version of its Modulo Behind-the-Mirror Cabinet system. This modular unit includes cabinets that house a choice of soap dispensers, paper towel dispensers or hand dryers. Which the company says helps to reduce the risk of drips on the floor and prevents queues for separately fitted hand dryers. Plus the mirrored doors help to protect the dispensers and consumables inside.Cabinets and shelves are available in 600 mm and 1200 mm widths, and with a dep
  
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