Cleaning Industry News January 2008

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NEWS OF TWO GREAT SHOWS TO VISIT IN MARCH 2008
For 2008, the bi-annual Carpex exhibition will be held on 27th and 28th March at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.This is an excellent opportunity to visit specialist suppliers in the carpet cleaning industry, including the best of the manufacturers.

Prochem who are key players in this field will be showing their latest chemical products and machines, and as Prochem distributors we hold most of them stock, and usually at very reduced prices.

Also located within the exhibition, there is an area sponsored by the Federation of window cleaners, where many manufacturers in that industry will also be displaying their products. Amongst these will be our main supplier of window cleaning equipment, Unger UK ltd, whose range we always discount by 15% for all our customers.

There are free seminars on both exhibition days for carpet cleaning, rug cleaning, hard floor cleaning, marketing employment law, also Health and Safety risk assessment for carpet cleaners, contract cleaners and others.

The Window cleaners section, will also have free seminars on both days concentrating on Work at Height Regulations, (WAH), explaining where and when you can use ladders, along with the Risk assessment rules and employment Laws.

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Cleaning Show 2007 Draws Highest Ever Attendance - VISITOR NUMBERS TOP 13,500
Organisers Quartz Publishing and Exhibitions has announced that the recent Cleaning Show recorded a surge in attendance with 13,677 visitors visiting the show which was held at the NEC, Birmingham from 13-15 March 2007. This provisional figure, which is now being independently verified by ABC, sets an all-time attendance record and represents a remarkable leap of over 41% in visitor numbers compared to the last Cleaning Show held in March 2005.

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Dates for The Cleaning Show 2009 Announced
The dates for the 2009 event will be:

  • Tuesday 10th March 2009
  • Wednesday 11th March 2009
  • Thursday 12th March 2009

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British Cleaning Council still wants to help with hospital cleanliness problem
Two mothers have recently died from an infection acquired at a Winchester hospital, within 72 hours of each other.

Both women, Amy Kimmance and Jasmine Pickett, died from complications linked to Streptococcus A, normally relating to sore throats. The infection has been linked to a breakdown in infection control, something denied by the Royal Hampshire Hospital which had missed its target for reducing MRSA last year and had 191 reported cases of clostridium difficile.

This is the second time that this hospital has attracted negative publicity having recently featured in the Meanest Hospital Award for food hygiene standards.

The British Cleaning Council has spoken out about this ongoing problem in many UK hospitals and the gravity of not getting the cleaning mix right. The root cause comes from a lack of appropriate funding for cleaning staff, inadequate training of those staff, poor provision of cleansing equipment and lack of uniformity of successful cleaning procedures from one establishment to the next.

Unnecessary flack is often taken by cleaners who are often overlooked, undervalued and underpaid. The BCC has welcomed the Government`s proposals for deep cleaning of all hospitals but more clarity is needed on what exactly is involved. Importantly, budgets need to be overhauled and increased permanently to support the demands of good hospital cleaning provision. The BCC has said that it is happy to work closely in an advisory capacity with the Department of Health to help them eradicate this problem once and for all.

In the past BCC has called for new ways of looking at and dealing with the problem, including most recently a call on hospital managers to seek the advice and support of the cleaning industry to turn the problem around. A back to basics approach may be the only way to get all hospitals back restored to their former matron run glory and redeem the reputation of hospital cleanliness.

Source: British Cleaning Council, 16th January 2008

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