CILF Safety and Heath Awareness Day, Perth
The following report was sent by Council member and Chair of the Training & Education Committee, Lorraine Larman.
The Dewar Centre was an excellent venue and the day was sponsored and organised by Tayside Contracts. We were greeted by Margaret Davidson, Liz Grillo (HSE) and Susie Boffery.
Approximately 100 people attended from all over the region including cleaners, supervisors, managers and machine manufacturers. The day started with an introduction from Iain Waddell (MD Tayside Contracts)...
New penalties for corporate manslaughter
Companies could be fined between 2.5% and 10% of their turnover for committing the new offence of Corporate Manslaughter. For many companies, this will mean fines of several millions of pounds and for some, fines could amount to hundreds of millions of pounds.
Potentially even more damaging is that the court may also impose a publicity order, which requires the organisation to publicise in a specified manner the fact that it has been convicted of the offence, the specified particulars of the...
Five year Metro journey
Connaught has secured a multi-million pound contract to clean the entire Tyne and Wear Metro network for the next five years in a deal with Nexus, the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive.
The new business for Connaught’s environmental team confirms the company’s growing status in the transport and infrastructure market, coming on the back of its success at Heathrow Express. It also gives Connaught considerable presence in the north east of England.
Starting on 5 April, the contract...
GSA sponsorship stresses sustainability
JohnsonDiversey, one of the biggest companies in the world of cleaning, hygiene and sanitation, is committed to sustainable cleaning performance. That’s one reason why it’s sponsoring the 2009 Kimberly-Clark Professional and CSSA Golden Service Awards - and in particular the ‘Environmental Awareness’ award.
“Supporting the Golden Service Awards with the JohnsonDiversey Environmental Awareness Award is just one example of this commitment,” said Deborah Bland, market manager at JohnsonDiversey....
Two new team members
We are pleased to welcome two new team members:
Lisa Kitching: Lisa joins us as Training & Education Administrator working for Colin Hanks and supporting Mark Mahoney. Lisa is currently working part-time (10am – 2pm) having spent the last year project managing the building work being carried out on her house. She has a strong sales and marketing background having previously worked for AT-Toolcentre in Northampton as a Product Manager.
Stacey Hyliands: Stacey is Hailey Ducker’s replacement as...
CSSA publishes Driver Safety factsheet
Cleaning contractors urged to assess their driving activities and to act to minimise the risk to drivers.
The CSSA has published a new health and safety factsheet aimed at improving the safety of drivers in the cleaning and support services sector.Overall, driving a vehicle is almost certainly the most dangerous thing that a cleaning employee will do in his or her working life. To put things into perspective, work related driving incidents account for over 20 deaths and 250 serious injuries...







