Cleaning Industry news

• Modern Slavery – A Real Risk for the Facilities Management Sector

  22-03-2023 12:22 via fmj.co.uk
  
  With the UK one of the largest markets for Facilities Management (FM) services in Europe, FM professionals are taking a more proactive approach to identifying, controlling and limiting their risks and applying this more rigorously to the contractors and suppliers they work with.
  For the highly competitive and dynamic sector, worth £47.2 billion in the UK and forecast to reach £52 billion in 2026 (ReportLinker), those who want to stay ahead of the game are carefully implementing ethic
  
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• Zero trust strategy

  22-03-2023 11:52 via fmj.co.uk
  
  John Michael, CEO, iStorage considers the dangerous new ‘golden age’ of ransomware and the role of Zero Trust IT architecture to help neutralise its impactThe path of digital transformation, accelerated by the unique requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to untold efficiencies and revolutionary connectivity – but it has also ushered in an era of incredible threat. New, more devious ransomware puts data at more risk than ever, and the rise of remote and hybrid working
  
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• Savills hires energy operations specialist

  22-03-2023 11:23 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The global real estate advisor has appointed Marc Montgomery as Head of Operations for its energy team, which sits within the firm’s wider Property Management division.
  Montgomery joins the business with over 25 years’ experience, having undertaken various senior leadership roles, managing teams over 300 people within sales, customer service and debt operations. He spent 19 years at British Gas in various leadership roles covering both B2B and B2C parts of the business and was more r
  
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• Built environment can deliver viable solutions to tackle climate change but only with the political will to scale

  22-03-2023 11:03 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published the final part of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on global climate change, which outlines how a liveable future is possible if Governments show the critical will to finance, incentivise, activate and mainstream solutions.Scientists said in the latest report that “there are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now&rd
  
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• ICON dispenser collection offers touch-free experience

  22-03-2023 10:00 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Kimberly-Clark Professional has launched its ICON dispenser collection in the UK.
  
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• EMCOR UK recognised for its commitment to protecting its employees

  22-03-2023 09:58 via fmj.co.uk
  
  EMCOR UK has won an International Safety Award from the British Safety Council in recognition of its commitment to keeping its workers and workplaces healthy and safe during the 2022 calendar year.
  Now in their 65th year, the International Safety Awards recognise and celebrate organisations from around the world which have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the scheme’s independent judges their commitment to preventing workplace injuries and work-related ill health during the previous cal
  
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• BaxterStorey opens industry first Just Walk Out store in London

  22-03-2023 09:36 via fmj.co.uk
  
  BaxterStorey has opened a new store powered by Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology.
  The new micro supermarket that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to create a checkout-free experience is at Amazon’s London headquarters in Shoreditch.
  The BaxterStorey-operated shop, called Social Bee, which opened yesterday, marks the debut of Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology within the workplace in the UK. 
  Customers enter the store by using their credit card. They can then grab what
  
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• "We cannot give what we do not have" says ASPEL president

  22-03-2023 01:00
  In Spain,Juan Díez de los Ríos, president of contract cleaning association Aspel and member of the CEOE (Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations), has declared that "we cannot give what we do not have".This is following the announcement by the Council of Ministers of the new increase in the minimum wage from €1000 to €1080 per month, a rise of eight per cent.According to Díez de los Ríos: "It is not the amount that is important for our sector but the
  
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