Domestic cleaners and housekeepers play a hugely important role in the health and safety of vulnerable people in their own homes. Their vital role is in maintaining a clean, safe and hygienic environment for individuals who may be recovering from surgery, discharged from hospital, end-of-life...
To empower cleaning staff with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their duties effectively and safely, we have just launched a major update to our comprehensive ‘Introduction to Safe Working Practices’ training course tailored specifically for cleaning staff....
Through our experience and knowledge of the cleaning industry, we offer a manual handling and safe working practices training that is completely designed to address and reduce the risks of injuries through routine and Ad Hoc cleaning tasks. ...
We offer two practical and completely cleaning-based COSHH training courses, one for supervisors and managers and the other one for cleaners. Supervisors and managers are required to assess the risk of the cleaning chemicals and put into place safe systems of work. Cleaners are required...
During the summer holiday period in the UK we were asked to provide onsite training to in-house housekeeping and cleaning staff, to a number of state run and private schools. Any holiday period (summer break or end of term) is ideal for cleaning teams to...
Cleaning in the workplace plays an incredibly important role in controlling and preventing the spread of an infection – Cleaning is the front line in the war on infection....
An operations manual sounds like just another management document that once written never sees the light of day. Just another document to fulfil the quality management systems requirements as set out in ISO 9001. While this is largely true for company policy documents and mission...
The 2 metre social distancing rule dominates the prevailing legal and advisory guidance issued by governments world-wide. This rule is based on the well established research that assumes respiratory viruses are transmitted via contaminated droplets during exhalation, either as a normal process or more forcefully...
At the end of December 2019 several cases of acute respiratory syndrome were reported in Wuhan City, China. It was very quickly identified as a new coronavirus, or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of coronavirus that has not...
Cleaning and disinfection processes as part of a decontamination procedure must be designed to provide effective infection control and prevention of respiratory disease-causing viruses. One such virus has come to light recently, The Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the coronavirus belongs to a large family of viruses...