New employer requirements as of Jan. 1, 2015Beginning, January 1, 2015, more than two dozen industries will be added to the list of industries required to maintain OSHA 300 Logs. All forms of cleaning services – including residential, commercial, window, specialized, and housekeeping – have been included in the injury reporting and OSHA 300 Log [...]
Copper's intrinsic bacteria-fighting properties citedPullman Regional Hospital in Pullman, WA has earned a $10,000 Copper Development Association grant to install copper fixtures to assist their programs to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs). Read more.
Private cleaner pleads guilty to theft and drug use.A private house cleaner in Illinois, with prior convictions, pleaded guilty to four counts of theft as well as cocaine use and was sentenced to five years in prison. The stolen items were not recovered. Read more.
Tech start-up Willow Garage still has work to do to overcome bot creepiness.The biggest complaint about remote controlled cleaning robots was not knowing who was really peering into the home and at the homeowner; scientists are experimenting with ways to minimize the remote operator’s access to personal items and private areas of the home. Read [...]
Maybe because businesses are getting biggerSmall businesses - especially service businesses - in the US struggle to pay minimum wage, much less anything more, to the staff they need to enable growth. To serve more clients, you need more staff, right? Well, according to this Daily Stat from Harvard Business Review (12/3/2014), the bigger your [...]
November 20, 2014 - Like its predecessors, ISSA/INTERCLEAN® North America 2014 again succeeded in being the one week where key leaders and decision-makers in the commercial cleaning industry converged to take advantage of the most efficient and informative way to find new opportunities and strengthen business connections, according to attendee and exhibitor feedback. “ISSA/INTERCLEAN is the one [...]
American School & University magazine awarded its Grand Award to the University of Washington for the third time. Dec. 22, 2014 - The University of Washington has been awarded the 2014 Grand Award for Higher Education in the Green Cleaning Awards by American School & University magazine. This is the third time the UW has [...]
Popular VMS publishes 2014 Key Performance Indicators of success.
If you aren’t including customer service training – even professional reading – for your staff, you may be losing more business than you’re gaining. Often the focus of training is on getting different areas of the house or office cleaned in a specific way, with specific products, to meet a specific time allotment – all [...]
There are actually several good reasons why consumers and property managers should have their carpets cleaned during the winter months.Fort Worth, TX - Most consumers and property managers postpone carpet cleaning from about December through March, and even as late as April in many parts of the country. The reasoning: with the ice and snow, [...]
