Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in Plain Sight

By |2026-09-22T17:24:53-05:00September 22, 2026|

The cleaning and facility solutions industry, represented by ISSA, which we are proud to be a member of, is never short on conversations about labor. We talk about recruiting, turnover, attendance, training, safety, reliability, and retention, while wondering where to find people who will show up, follow the process, care about quality, and take pride ...

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ISSA Housekeeping Olympics Returns to Las Vegas Following Viral Breakout and ESPN8: The Ocho Debut

By |2026-09-22T17:06:23-05:00September 22, 2026|

After capturing millions of views, breaking into mainstream media and making its ESPN8: The Ocho debut in August, one of the cleaning industry’s most spirited competitions, the ISSA Housekeeping Olympics, is headed back to Las Vegas—and this year, the entire industry is invited to get in the game.  The 36th Annual ISSA Housekeeping Olympics, hosted ...

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ISSA Helps Launch Global Roadmap to Drive Healthy Indoor Air Across Buildings Worldwide

By |2026-09-17T12:32:18-05:00September 22, 2026|

The Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air launched the Global Framework for Action: Advancing Healthy Indoor Air through Societal Engagement and Market Transformation, a landmark global roadmap designed to elevate and embed healthy indoor air as a public health imperative and a market priority, ultimately institutionalizing it as an everyday expectation in buildings everywhere. John ...

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Essity’s CFO to Retire During 2027

By |2026-09-21T15:38:38-05:00September 21, 2026|

Following a long and successful career as CFO and more than nine years as CFO and Executive Vice President at Essity, Fredrik Rystedt has informed the company of his wish to retire during 2027. The process of appointing a successor will begin immediately. Fredrik Rystedt will remain in his current role until a successor has ...

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How Allan Industries Brought Robots to Work in a Union Town

By |2026-09-21T15:49:04-05:00September 21, 2026|

Allan Industries is testing what automation looks like on the ground floor of a union town. At a newly built commercial property on Market Street in Philadelphia, autonomous vacuums and a robotic scrubber now work alongside the company’s union cleaning crews, taking over the long hallways and open lobbies that used to eat up hours ...

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ISSA Leg. & Reg. Update | Tell the House to Pass the WIPPES Act

By |2026-09-21T12:10:19-05:00September 21, 2026|

Welcome to the latest ISSA Legislative & Regulatory Update, a biweekly round up of the public policies currently impacting the cleaning and facility solutions industry. This update touches on urging the U.S. House to pass the WIPPES Act, the 2027 ISSA Clean Advocacy Summit, the upcoming midterm elections, and more. Want to stay informed about ...

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UMF|PerfectClean Sponsors Healthy Green Schools & Colleges Program

By |2026-09-17T16:40:51-05:00September 17, 2026|

UMF|PERFECTCLEAN®, a leader in infection prevention and commercial cleaning, is sponsoring the Healthy Green Schools & Colleges program, providing Platinum-level support for initiatives that help school facility leaders improve indoor air quality, sustainability, and healthy learning environments. The sponsorship builds on UMF|PERFECTCLEAN’s focus on bringing high-performance cleaning solutions and infection-prevention processes to the education market. ...

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A Framework for Cleaning That Saves Lives

By |2026-09-17T12:41:03-05:00September 17, 2026|

At the Experience Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas, Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner, Senior Director of ISSA, and RJ Patel, founder of PCT Clean and PCT Janitorial in Atlanta, described how a four-stage exploration, preparation, implementation and sustainment (EPIS) framework outlines stages of evidence-based cleaning procedures that helped a children's hospital in Suva, Fiji, significantly ...

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In Memory of BSCAI Past President Michael Diamond

By |2026-09-17T10:29:16-05:00September 16, 2026|

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Michael Diamond, CBSE. A longtime BSCAI member and volunteer leader, he served as BSCAI President from 2019–2020. Michael dedicated nearly four decades to the facility service industry, carrying on his father’s business, Premier Maintenance (PMI), before later creating AffinEco, LLC. He also devoted his ...

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From Opinion to Evidence: The Next Era of Professional Cleaning

By |2026-09-16T16:33:09-05:00September 16, 2026|

At The Experience Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas recently, three university professors, two of whom were physicians, spent their days talking not with patients but with carpet cleaners and disaster restoration contractors. Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner, senior director at ISSA, brought two colleagues from academic medicine to the show floor: Dr. Rebecca Bascom, a ...

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