cleaning

In a recent poll of cleaning professionals, only two per cent ranked vacuuming as ‘important’, yet vacuuming takes about 25 per cent of a cleaner’s time. Automated vacuuming cost less, cleans better, saves energy and frees up skilled cleaning teams ...

Brayborne Facilities Services is to continue providing cleaning services to City College Southampton for a further two-year term without retender. City College is a general further education facility providing career-led courses, apprenticeships and education for young people and adults. Located ...

Julia Argles, who had served for many years as Swiftclean Service Delivery Director, has decided to retire from the company. She is also relinquishing any commercial interest; her shares being purchased by the company. Gary Nicholls, Managing Director and founder ...

The British Cleaning Council (BCC) has expanded on its major initiative to achieve ‘key and essential worker’ status for employees in the cleaning and hygiene sector. BCC Chairman Paul Thrupp said: “As everyone is now aware, the BCC has been ...

Schools and businesses reopening can check their cleaning standards with the NHS Deep Cleaning and Advisory Service For the first time in England, domestic cleaning in public spaces has been standardised with an official protocol developed within the NHS in response ...

The British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) Annual Awards are planned to return this year on Thursday 30 September, at the Forest of Arden Hotel & Spa in Birmingham. This important and much-anticipated event has long celebrated industry excellence, and ...

Hillbrush, a UK manufacturer of brushware and hygienic cleaning tools has appointed experienced Industrial Designer David Lintern to lead the company’s new product development programme. With more than 20 years’ experience in product and industrial design, the majority in the ...

Commercial cleaning contractor, Incentive QAS has historically credited innovation for a positive change in its business and as it prepares to emerge from the lockdown it has added a new system to strengthen its operations. Incentive QAS has recently invested ...

A study into a major cause of hospital acquired infections (HAI) has begun. The work is exploring how contagion bacteria survive even deep cleans with chemical products and is evaluating a novel approach to reduce HAI through the use of ...

National soft FM and waste management specialist, SafeGroup, has appointed Mark McGowan as its new Head of Sales as the business looks to build on rapid growth achieved in 2020. McGowan had previously been Head of Strategy and Implementation at ...