Cleaning is the cornerstone of Health & Safety and ensures customer satisfaction and business success but with rising costs you may be tempted to opt for the cheaper options, however this would be a false economy. Reducing your cleaning schedule or what you’re prepared to pay will almost always lead to inadequate cleaning, poor infection…
Over 150 industry members have already backed the British Cleaning Council in lobbying government to put cleaning and hygiene at the heart of the national agenda as part of their ‘We Clean, We Care’ campaign. It is important that we learn lessons from the pandemic and that as a country we are better prepared for…
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…
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…
The cleaning industry has been thrown into the spotlight over the last two years and has proudly and professionally taken a frontline position in combatting COVID and demonstrating best practice in cleaning and sanitation. Appreciation grew from consumers and business owners alike in the industry’s role in keeping people and places safe, requests for anti-viral…
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The vaccine rollout is going well and the number of cases of Coronavirus is dropping in the UK and as Spring/Summer is upon us, things are slowly starting to return to normal but what does this mean for USS. New guidance recommend that in order to break the chain of infection in workplaces and public…