Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 28th February 2013 Issue no. 559
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Products Bitesize learning with the WoolSafe Academy
Tax time for BSCs: be aware of the five tax hot spots Over the next couple of months, most building service contractors in the US will start getting their records together, ready to file their taxes. It is important for BSCs to understand what the Internal Revenue Service typically scrutinises on a business tax return and hopefully, avoid an audit. In this article (which has useful information for BSCs everywhere), Tornado Industries Business of the Business offers some useful tips on how to tackle business taxes. RIA members create cleaning solution for flood damage
Kärcher wins unfair competition lawsuit against Chinese manufacturer
EU landfills or incinerates 60% of its municipal waste: "Must do better!" says FoE
Auditors slam Europe's waste system - for waste
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! "The show must go on!" said the cleaners at last week's Academy Awards. Most of us just saw all the glitz and glamour on Oscars night but we hear that if it hadn't been for the cleaning staff, the event would have lost some of its sparkle...
Lynette Rice tweeted a picture of the cleaning staff frantically sweeping the water away just prior to the opening curtain, with the caption: "Flood at the Oscars! Great day to be a star." Well - while they might not have graced the stage, no-one can argue that those cleaners weren't the real stars of the night!
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     This Week's News
WFBSC responds to intervention by UK Chief Medical Officer on infectious disease The World Federation of Building Service Contractors has responded to UK Chief Medical Officer's request to add the threat of infections resistant to antibiotics to the UK risk register of civil emergencies. Marriott helps 'Clean the World'
Morclean launches machine range for cleaning wheelie bins
Of high quality design, extremely efficient and really easy to use, the machines complete in seconds what can otherwise be a tedious and sometimes unpleasant job. They can wash two domestic bins simultaneously. Soluclean product/training videos now available on YouTube
The videos show the Soluclean range and how it should be used, ably demonstrated by Lynn Webster, Managing Director of cleaning consultancy LWC and ex-National Chair of the British Institute of Cleaning Science. Katrin Academy - stepping stones to success
'Libera', the industrial high pressure washer from Italy
Savortex launches energy efficient hand dryer into FM sector
Georgia-Pacific and Versus Technology collaborate over healthcare hygiene Georgia-Pacific Professional has entered into a strategic alliance with Versus Technology, to introduce the SafeHaven monitoring system, designed to help healthcare workers improve their hand hygiene participation rates. Spiderman window cleaner surprises patients at children's hospital in Tampa
Motorclean becomes largest provider of car valeting services in the UK
Norse wins Archant facilities management contract Archant, one of the UK's largest independently-owned regional media businesses, has awarded its cleaning and Facilities Management contract to Norse Commercial Services. The three year contract, with an option to extend for a further three years, includes cleaning, building maintenance, mechanical and electrical repairs and maintenance, reception, security and caretaking. Truvox scrubs up at the Trojans Club
Nviro cleans crime scenes as part of three year contract with Hampshire Police
Nviro won the bid to clean police premises plus additional work involving crime scenes. Amanda Fry, Nviro's Regional Director, says of the win: The Cleanzine Archive Search We keep an extensive archive of news stories and product information that have featured in past issues of The Cleanzine. If you would like to run a search of the The Cleanzine web site using the search tool below please just go ahead by entering in the name of the person, product or company or any other key words that you are looking for. How to contact us at The Cleanzine:
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Helping business to be 'smart' about waste and resources A new course launched by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management will help businesses across the UK to cut their waste costs, comply with all the necessary legislation and become more resource efficient. Prochem Europe customer is UK's fastest-growing franchise
Textile manufacturer sentenced over worker's death
Game on for LPM Cleaning at SONY Computer Entertainment Europe
Restaurant fined £24,000 plus costs, for cleaning and hygiene offences A Court has been told that a restaurant which was so dirty that it was nearly ordered to close immediately when visited by an environment health officer.
Liverpool magistrates heard that during a seven month period between March 2012 and October 2012 the Buffet Star, on Hanover House, 87 -91 Hanover Street, a self-service buffet restaurant in the City Centre serving Chinese and Thai cuisine, was visited six times and on each occasion serious and repeated contraventions of the food safety legislation were found. New report gives top considerations for hiring commercial window cleaners
National winner John puts the Who? in Which?
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.. |
According to The Independent, those arriving for Hollywood's most glittering occasion of the year - the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles - had to hitch up their enormously expensive dresses and pick their way in their fabulous shoes through inch-deep water that had flooded the ladies washrooms and flowed into the lobby. 
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