Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 14th February 2013 Issue no. 557
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Welcome to the
Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! Eurostat announced this morning that the Eurozone had posted poor growth figures for the end of 2012 - GDP fell by 0.6% in the final quarter of last year. The German economy contracted by 0.6%, Italy’s by 0.9% and Portugal’s by 1.8%. Elsewhere it is claimed that France’s public deficit is going to be close to 3% of GDP this year. The German statistics office suggested that a large contraction in demand for German exports around Europe was to blame for its poor growth (well surely that’s because so few of us have money to spend these days!). In a speech given to an Open Europe and RUSI joint event yesterday, Turkish Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator of Turkey's EU accession talks, Egemen Bagis, said: “I’m hoping that the recent statement of my Prime Minister and David Cameron will have an effect to put Europe back in business…it’s time for Europe to think about changing itself, its institutions and its decision-making processes.” I’m with them all the way. Looking further afield, leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are to start negotiations for a free trade agreement designed to establish the largest economic alliance in the world, which already accounts for some €455bn in trade and millions of jobs. I’m wondering though whether the talks might be scuppered by the EU’s plans for a Financial Transaction Tax. The City of London is not alone in arguing against the introduction of this tax and today’s Wall Street Journal reports that the US Treasury has announced that it opposes the tax as it will damage trade. I understand that a group of US business organisations, including the US Chamber of Commerce, has voiced its objections in a letter to the European Commission, claiming it overreaches borders, breaks international treaties and amounts to a unilateral imposition of a global FTT. Interesting times, eh?
Yours,
     This Week's News
Kärcher wins unfair competition lawsuit against Chinese manufacturer
EU landfills or incinerates 60% of its municipal waste: "Must do better!" says FoE
Restroom Association (Singapore) presents its Loo Awards
CMS Advisory Committee gains a new member
ISS Sweden continues cooperation with Kalmar County Hospital
New report gives top considerations for hiring commercial window cleaners
Unger extends indoor window cleaning range
National winner John puts the Who? in Which?
A relative newcomer to the cleaning industry, John attended a Prochem training course in 2010. No damage, just PURfect results!
Vectair Systems' popular V-Screen urinal screen range welcomes two new fragrances
Vectair V-Screen offers an effective means of keeping drains and urinals free-flowing and combats odour control between washroom cleaning visits. Facilities Show and co-located events to return to London for 2014
LPM wins major contract with Communisis LPM Cleaning & Support Services, the nationwide contract cleaning and janitorial supplies business, has won a major new contract to provide cleaning services for Communisis - the marketing communications services provider - at two of its main facilities in Leeds. Armchem International launches green version of best selling Tub, Tile & Grout Cleaner
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Legal ruling on criminal record disclosures requires contractors/employers to take extra care Some cleaning contracts require those doing the cleaning to have a Disclosure & Barring Service check (formerly known as the CRB check) and while this has had its problems in the past - mainly due to the length of time it took for the checks to be carried out and their cost, when one considers the rapid turnover of cleaning staff - the process has run fairly smoothly in recent years. All that could be about to change though, with the recent ruling by the Court of Appeal, that the law compelling employees to disclose all previous criminal convictions to employers infringes the Convention for Human Rights. Don't let the Winter Vomiting Virus take hold
Cleaning contractors wade in to clear flooded NHS site
While other NHSBT sites around the country took in stocks of blood to continue supplying hospitals in the Midlands, South West and parts of the South East, Filton - home to one of the world's largest blood processing centres - was closed as the fire services pumped water from both inside and outside the waterlogged premises. Major expansion plans at Avica
Room disinfection robot gains UK acceptance after successful NHS trials
The remote-controlled Tru-D SmartUVC device is an automated total room disinfection system that uses SmartUVC technology to accurately measure and deliver the lethal UV dose required to break the DNA of bacteria, virus and spores to render them harmless. It is engineered to silently disinfect shadowed and line-of-sight surfaces from a single placement within a room, overcoming human error such as missed and difficult-to-reach surfaces, improper chemical applications, incorrect placement, and unreliable "blind-dose guessing" associated with lesser advanced and disruptive strobe light offerings. It is said to kill 99.9% of infectious room-surface pathogens in a fraction of the time now required for cleaning.. Cleaning industry welcomes wider support for the living wage The British Cleaning Council says it is delighted to see increasing support for the Living Wage. Advocates of the policy now include Jeremy Warner, assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain's leading business and economics commentators. FMA Certificate accredited by RICS The Facilities Management Association has announced that the FMA Certificate will now officially be recognised by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Urgent reviews of anti-Legionella water treatment essential after HSE ban on elemental copper Thousands of property managers responsible for public buildings are being forced to carry out urgent reviews and source alternative water treatments following the recent Health & Safety Executive ban on the use of elemental copper as a biocide, particularly for legionella control. Cleaning linked to asthma risk, shows new study A new study has found strong evidence for a link between cleaning jobs and the risk of developing asthma. Andrew Large announces departure from cleaning industry
Healthcare firm in court over severed thumb Synergy Health (UK) has appeared in court after an "inadequately trained" employee at its Chorley factory lost part of his thumb when it became trapped in a dry wipes machine that was found by investigators to have insufficient guarding ICMMA launches design award for the Cleaning Show The Industrial Cleaning Machine Manufacturers Association has announced the launch of its vacuum cleaner design awards for the 2013 Cleaning Show, which is taking place from 19th to 21st March 2013 at the NEC, Birmingham. Staying pristine at every height, one year on!
Unilever brings zero waste to landfill commitment five years forward to 2015
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