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• Christeyns welcomes new operations director for Ireland

  28-07-2025 14:46 via chtmag.com
  
  Melissa Moorhead has joined hygiene specialist Christeyns UK as Operations Director, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
  Moorhead brings a decade of experience in various commercial, pricing and sales leadership roles across global operations. Her deep understanding of contemporary technologies, data networks, and information systems will be a huge asset as Christeyns continues to grow its business in Ireland.
  Based at Christeyns Irish head office in Ballandyne, County Mayo, she will be responsible fo
  
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• Manufacturer rolling out world’s first self-cleaning kiosk with NPIF II funding

  28-07-2025 12:14 via chtmag.com
  
  A company that makes the self-service kiosks used to place orders in Argos stores and fast-food restaurants has secured funding to help it roll out the world’s first self-sanitising kiosk.
  Lazenby Group’s kiosks are used for numerous day to day transactions – at leading coffee chains, cinemas such as Odeon and Cineworld, at NCP car parks and for self check-in at airports. Its latest innovation, the SafeTouch kiosk, uses UVC light to kill germs after each use. It is now set to b
  
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• Just a fifth of UK professionals stick to their ‘core’ office hours

  28-07-2025 11:58 via fmj.co.uk
  
  With cost-saving still top of the agenda, and hiring plans remaining curtailed, new data from recruitment firm, Robert Walters, reveals how professionals are working extra hours just to keep up.
  The research found that only 20 per cent of professionals now say they adhere to the core hours at work, instead over a third (37 per cent) are starting early or finishing late every day, while 43 per cent report their hours being workload dependent.
  The main reasons professionals cited for working beyon
  
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• Fire safety protocols under pressure from hybrid working

  28-07-2025 10:50 via fmj.co.uk
  
  With hybrid working becoming the new standard for UK businesses, traditional fire safety protocols are failing to address the new risks posed by flexible workplace arrangements, warns Safety Group UK.
  More than a quarter of UK employees have now adopted hybrid working, which means that management in charge of workplace safety is facing unprecedented challenges in fire warden coverage, fire extinguisher-trained employees, evacuation planning, and lone worker protection that existing fire safety
  
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• Sybron to open Midlands distribution centre

  28-07-2025 10:49 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Sybron, a leading supplier of cleaning, hygiene and catering products to some of the largest names in UK hospitality, is expanding operations with the opening of a second distribution centre in Stafford in the heart of the Midlands.
  
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• Heating teaching

  28-07-2025 10:13 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Andrew Johnson, Training & Design Services Director, Ideal Heating Commercial, advises that when it comes to commercial heating courses choose your training wisely
  Training has always been important when it comes to heating, not least of all because of the dangers associated with working with gas, the traditionally dominant heating fuel in the UK. With the move towards decarbonisation manifesting in a transition to heat pumps, good training is more important than ever. That training could t
  
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• Balfour Beatty appoints new MD of its UK rail division

  28-07-2025 09:43 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Richard Watts has been appointed to the role of Managing Director of Balfour Beatty’s UK Rail business.
  Watts, who has 20 years’ experience in the rail sector, will join the Group later this year and will take up the MD position in January 2026.
  He will join Balfour Beatty from BAM Nuttall where he was Rail Sector Director responsible for the overall performance and delivery of national rail frameworks, as well as for the company’s highways operations. Prior to BAM Nuttall, Wat
  
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• World’s eyes on US tariff saga

  28-07-2025 01:00
  When will the Trump tariffs madness end and how much more economic pain will the world have to endure before it does? Hartley Milner probes the US president’s combative policymaking for answers.TRUMP’S TARIFF STRATEGY looked set to come crashing down around him following a damning court ruling last month … and could still do so.The president was found to have overstepped his authority by invoking emergency economic legislation to justify his rollout of import taxes around the
  
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