Today is International Happiness Day but did you know despite what you might think cleaning can make you happy. Cleaning and tidying could be key to maintaining your mental and physical wellbeing ultimately making you happier and a clean workspace reduces staff sick days and increases staff productivity so it is important that employers ensure…
Preventing cross contamination is key when preparing food for paying customers and that is why it is so important to ensure that a hygienic commercial kitchen is maintained at all times. In order to do this, it is important that in addition to the day-to-day cleaning of all work surfaces, flooring and equipment used, deep…
Just when we thought Spring was just around the corner, another cold spell is predicted for next week which means that winter germs will be in circulation for longer. Each year there are between 600,000 – 1 million cases of Norovirus in the UK and this year it is predicted that the figure could be…
The APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) inquiry’s report titled ‘Embedding Effective Hygiene For A Resilient UK’ due to be released before the end of the month will list recommendations to increase disease resilience in the UK. The aim will be to build lessons on what was learnt during the peak of the pandemic, it also…
A new report by MP’s following the COVID pandemic calls for minimum cleaning standards to be introduced for venues. The standards proposed include frequency guidelines and depth of cleaning and the key message of the report is that cleaning and hygiene is to be given top priority in the future in the hope that it…
Here’s just two testimonials that we’ve recently received: – Kingston University have utilised USS’s services since 2011 including their window cleaning services for both monthly window cleaning and the annual window cleaning to all campuses. I have always found them to be competitively priced, reliable, flexible in their approach and able to work to tight…
The cleaning sector consists of over 69,000 companies and is is one of the UK’s Top 10 Industries contributing over £58billion to the UK economy but what makes USS different from other cleaning companies. USS may not be the biggest commercial cleaning company in the UK but is has been established for over 30 years…
Rising rates of COVID, records levels of Scarlet Fever / Strep A and the winter flu season means that infections can spread more easily at this time of year in the workplace. Surfaces should be cleaned and disinfected regularly as part of a normal cleaning routine with close attention being paid to high touch surfaces…
We are fast approaching the end of 2022 and despite another challenging year with a shortage of staff, energy prices and strikes across multiple sectors, it has still been another successful and busy year here at USS and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our clients for their continued business…
Winter brings extra challenges and with December being the busiest time of year for many businesses, this is the time to pay particular attention to the cleaning and care of your floor surfaces. Pubs and restaurants fill up with work and family Christmas get together and shoppers are out in force in the run up…