Over 80% of primary care, mental health, ambulance and care trusts have signed-up for the National Patient Safety Agency’s (NPSA) cleanyourhands campaign. Registration closed at the end of April with over 170 trusts committing to improve the hand hygiene of healthcare workers in the fight against healthcare associated infection (HCAI).

The expansion of the cleanyourhands campaign follows its success in changing the hand hygiene behaviour of healthcare workers in hospitals and trialling of the...

Tork tissue manufacturer SCA Tissue Europe has notched up yet another environmental success at the North East Business Awards, which took place last month. The company’s Prudhoe Mill in Northumberland beat off stiff competition to win the Environmental Management Award in the annual competition.

Prudhoe Mill was shortlisted for the award in February after winning the Tyneside and Northumberland Environmental Management heat ahead of other environmentally-friendly companies including the...

The 19th PHS Quarterly FM Survey investigated facilities perceptions and current practice in respect of workplace hygiene, given its potential impact on cross-infection, illness and staff absence. The results showed that office cleaning routines and hygiene practice fall short of requirements, given the increase in germ-based risk factors like hot-desking and eating meals at desks.

This was quite surprising, as encouraging levels of general awareness emerged amongst interviewed FMs, about the...

Nominations and entries are now being received for the 2008 Loo of the Year Awards - the annual competition to find the best places ‘to go’ in Britain, Ireland and The Channel Islands.

The competition, now in its 21st year, is promoted by The British Toilet Association and is run this year in association with headline sponsor Albany Washroom Services. Other sponsors so far identified are Armitage Shanks, The British Cleaning Council, Help the Aged and Hydro Nova Europe. The Awards are also...

CSSA director general Andrew Large was delighted to be a panellist at the Westminster Health Forum keynote seminar: Healthcare Associated Infections and Patient Safety last month.

The seminar discussed all aspects of HAIs in the UK and was a valuable opportunity to promote the role of cleaning in the cutting of infection rates.

Speaking after the seminar, Andrew Large said: "This has been a most worthwhile event. I am pleased that there seems to be a consensus both that cleaning has a key role...

A newly launched sustainable cleaning guide from the British Association for Chemical Specialities (BACS) and the UK Cleaning Products Industry Association (UKCPI) has been given an endorsement by Defra. 

The document, supported by the British Cleaning Council, gives step by step guidance for adopting best practice on three key issues of cleaning product sustainability: formulation, manufacturing and product usage. It illustrates the principles behind these steps - from optimising resource...