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AHCP launches award for ‘healthier healthcare cleaners’
The Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals (AHCP) has confirmed details of its new President's Award. For 2010/11 the award will be given for improving the health and well being of cleaning staff - making healthier healthcare cleaners.
The AHCP President's Award focusses on developing the skills and well being of healthcare cleaners - an area which has, until now, not received a high level of attention. The new award was announced recently by AHCP president Dr. Liz Jones at the...
Connaught wins 2nd RoSPA award
Connaught plc’s commitment to safety and operational performance was confirmed when it won the RoSPA Forestry Sector award for the second year in succession. Connaught Environmental Ltd has an outstanding safety performance record, formally recognised by RoSPA for the first time last year.
Richard Haddon, Connaught Environmental Ltd chief executive, said: “It was great to receive this prestigious award in 2009, but it is even better that the determination and effort of our staff to maintain...
Sweet success for steam
The New McCowan's (Scotland) Ltd, incorporating John Millar and Sons of Edinburgh, and McCowan’s of Stenhousemuir is an independent manufacturer of traditional sweets and confectionery for all ages and occasions.
One of the problems associated with being a major confectionary manufacturer is dealing with the clean-up of the many constituents of these sweets, including machine-clogging glucose and sugar. Sticky residues on production machinery are hard to shift and although the company has used...
Full steam ahead for MITIE
MITIE has won a cleaning contract with First Great Western (FGW) to clean trains and stations. The new cleaning contract covers 109 train stations across the country from Paddington in London to Penzance in Cornwall.
The three-year cleaning contract, with a total value of £12.6 million, started in late April 2010 with approximately 300 people transferring to MITIE. The contract consists of four lots, West, Central and East regions for FGW and will mainly revolve around train and...
Hygiene Group extends Morrison’s partnership
The acquisition of Somerfield by Morrison’s has brought additional work worth around £50,000 each year to Birmingham-based Hygiene Group.
Hygiene Group is already an established provider of overnight deep cleaning of food preparation areas within 65 Morrison’s stores in southern England. It will now provide a similar service to a further 33 Somerfield stores as part of the same contract.
The arrangement sees two dedicated teams from Hygiene Group undertake thorough cleaning of bakery,...
Floor cleaning to hospital standards
Broomfield Hospital in Essex achieves outstanding scores for overall quality and cleanliness of wards in patient surveys. Helping it achieve these high standards are Duplex scrubber dryers.
The Duplex 420 washes, mops, scrubs, dries, polishes and disinfects all floors. Broomfield Hospital has 30 Duplex 420s. They are used throughout the wards, and will soon be used to maintain the floors in the new hospital building opening later this year.
Domestic services team leader, Debbie Munn, is...
BCA Cleanability Awards
