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Entec UVC SafeClean purifies Citipost Mail offices

Entec UVC SafeClean has successfully delivered UV-based air purification to Citipost Mail in Alfreton. This illustrates the importance responsible employers such as Citipost are placing on ensuring that staff and guests can breathe safe and clean indoor air when visiting ...

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World Health Day: Hygiene experts say global health has forgotten its most important weapon

Hygiene is vital in fighting off a whole range of diseases, including Covid-19, yet policymakers and others fail to invest, promote, and research it, say hygiene experts at the Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute (RGHI). Instead, vaccines, antibiotics and alternative treatments ...

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ONE HUNDRED restrooms starts toilet revolution with smart urinal insight into visitor hydration levels

ONE HUNDRED restrooms, the Dutch scale-up, has entered a partnership with the Spanish tech start-up Kamleon to make people aware of the importance of drinking enough water, by means of a hydration tracker. The smart urinal that automatically measures the ...

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Post pandemic recovery sparks demand for cleaning industry

UK businesses are prioritising the health and wellness of their employees more than ever, as new data reveals an increase of up to 90 per cent demand for office cleaners across the UK. New research from facilities management provider Samsic ...

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New GBAC Academy training course to reinforce infectious disease awareness

The Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC), a Division of ISSA, has launched a new GBAC Academy training course focused on increasing knowledge of cleaning for health for individuals in all businesses. The new course, ‘Infectious Disease Awareness in the Workplace: COVID-19 ...

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PURELL products achieve Cradle to Cradle Certified status

Skin health and surface hygiene expert, GOJO Industries-Europe, has announced that several of its hand sanitiser and soap formulas recently achieved certification through the Cradle to Cradle Certified Products Program – the world’s most advanced standard for safe, circular, and ...

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Understanding the rigorous testing that hygiene products must go through

The alcohol-based hand sanitiser market has become awash with unregulated and potentially harmful products available to buy. Here, Dr Huw Evans, Research & Development Director at Byotrol plc, an antimicrobial technology specialist, discusses the importance of researching the hygiene products ...

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Schools, NHS health centres and 5* hotels revealed as having some of the most highly-contaminated public spaces

A biotech cleaning company has revealed test results of contamination levels in key public settings that show everyday surfaces to be very high risk for infection spreading, despite regular, and professional cleaning regimes. Case studies include a primary school, an ...

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Washing away the coronavirus myths around hand hygiene

Since the coronavirus crisis began in the UK a few months ago, the nation has significantly changed its ways to avoid the illness. With hand hygiene remaining the first line of defence against COVID-19, Trudi Osborne, Marketing Manager at Airdri, ...

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Hygiene specialist re-opens ethanol-based hand hygiene production facility

Warrington based Christeyns Food Hygiene, who manufacture and install hygiene solutions for the food, dairy and beverage industries, has re-opened its ethanol-based hand hygiene production facility. Christeyns Food Hygiene has taken its specialist flammables unit out of mothballs and prepared ...

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