We don’t give cleaning chemicals a second thought. It is easy to forget that chemicals are an important tool cleaners use for virtually all day-to-day and deep cleaning activities. Even if they have been purchased from a supermarket, which many assume are safe, these chemicals...
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...
The domestic cleaning market in the UK is estimated to be worth nearly £3 billion, with more than 2.45 million households using some form of paid assistance in their home[1] It is highly likely that these figures seriously underestimate the true extent of the breadth...