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Hand hygiene: infection prevention in focus in recent Westminster debate

Hand hygiene and infection prevention is now a top priority on the Government’s agenda, after a recent Westminster debate addressed the key infection prevention issues within Healthcare settings. The debate addressed the use of electronic monitoring systems to measure hand ...

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Cordant’s new app provides valuable data

Cordant Cleaning has developed a bespoke app designed to capture and report on the activities of the contract teams. It also assesses and monitors the cleanliness of vehicles and premises using real time data. The technology is being rolled out ...

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Enhance named as Living Wage Champion for service providers

Enhance Office Cleaning Limited has been announced as a winner of the Living Wage Champion Awards 2018 award for Recognised Service Providers.  The 2018 Living Wage Champion Awards celebrate individuals and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the ...

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CleanEvent showcases at Ascot Racecourse

Specialist venue and stadium cleaning provider, CleanEvent Services, has secured the cleaning services contract at Ascot Racecourse, one of the leading racecourses in the UK and home of this month’s prestigious Royal Ascot meeting. The three-year contract includes the provision of ...

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Templewood acquires LCC Support Services

Templewood Services, a company supplying cleaning, hygiene, washroom and security services to blue chip clients across the UK, has acquired LCC Support Services, one of the UK’s largest independently owned national contract cleaning specialists. The acquisition combines two businesses who ...

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Total Solutions abseils away with TechServe Solutions

Facilities services provider, Total Solutions, has become the majority shareholder in specialist abseiling company, TechServe Solutions. The relationship will enable Total Solutions Group to self-deliver abseiling services for building maintenance and cleaning, building surveys, graffiti removal, pest control and other ...

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Workers can’t make sense of the office spring clean

Workers have a lack of understanding about the annual spring clean when it comes to their office, new research has revealed. A survey of 1,015 UK office workers carried out by household appliances retailer, AppliancesDirect.co.uk found only 41 per cent ...

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Providing a dignified and hygienic washroom experience for women

By Dr Peter Barratt, Technical Manager, Initial Washroom Hygiene Monday is Menstrual Hygiene Day, aiming to raise awareness around access to feminine hygiene facilities and products around the world. While ‘period poverty’ is a more severe problem in the developing ...

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Bin liners incorporated into CHSA’s Accreditation Scheme for Plastic Sacks 

Buyers of plastic bin liners can now look for the CHSA Accreditation Scheme logo to be certain ‘what’s on the box is what’s in the box’.  The Accreditation Scheme for Plastic Refuse Sacks has been expanded to include these products.   Mike ...

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Down to a fine art: Churchill cleans at the Royal College of Art

At the beginning of the year, Churchill Contract Services won a contract to provide cleaning services to the prestigious Royal College of Art (RCA). Placed as the top art and design university in the QS World Universities rankings for the ...

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