14 Aug Training Assessments
Workplace capability assessments – assessing physical capability following illness or injury as part of a return to work process Skills assessment – assessing both physical cleaning skills and techniques and knowledge...
26 Jun Surface Contamination from Airborne Transmission Of COVID-19
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...
08 Jun Part 2: Reduction of Viable Bacteria Using Biocides
We started with the marketing of disinfectants as being labelled as a percentage reduction, and we said that 99.9% reduction sounded like it was almost 100%. However, we now know...
08 Jun Part 1: What Don’t You Know About Bacteria?
Browse any supermarket line of kitchen and bathroom cleaners and you will notice a common theme in their marketing – “kills 99.9% of bacteria”, usually followed by an asterisk exclaiming...
17 May Coronavirus (COVID19) & SARS Guidance
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...
06 May After lockdown are you ready for next phase in cleaning?
In these unprecedented times of lockdown by virtue of an infectious agent, cleaning has seemingly taken a step to the side, although that is to be expected as organisations have...
02 Mar Course for routine and deep cleaning for infection control in general facilities
Any outbreak of infection will have such a huge impact on an organisation. As we have seen in the COVID19 pandemic in early 2020, outbreaks can effectively shut down an...
28 Feb Cleaning and Infection Control in the Hospitality Industry
Brand new for 2020 is a dedicated course for cleaning and infection control in the hospitality industry. This course is ideal for cleaners who work ‘front of house’ or ‘back...
24 Feb Environmental Decontamination of Coronavirus, SARS and other respiratory infections
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...
27 Jan Hazards in Commercial Domestic Cleaning
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]...