Sustainability: The Next Turning Point in Professional Cleaning

Sustainability: The Next Turning Point in Professional Cleaning

By |2024-01-05T22:18:39-06:00May 3, 2016|

Earth Day 2016 (April 22) represents a possible turning point for many in the professional cleaning industry. For most custodial workers, the use of green or environmentally preferable cleaning products is now a daily fact of life. The turning point for green cleaning occurred a good decade ago, in the mid- to-late 2000s. So if ...

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Members rewarded for referrals!

By |2024-01-05T22:18:37-06:00May 2, 2016|

Speaking with our members I hear how ISSA helps benefit them, from education, marketing studies, legislative issues, our tradeshow, and much more. We know your personal recommendation is the best compliment you can give us. Why not recommend a colleague or customer who can benefit from our programs and receive a reward? As a thank you, ...

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Video Tours!

By |2024-01-05T22:18:37-06:00April 29, 2016|

Hello there! You may have spoken with me by now or will be hearing from me very soon. It was a pleasure accepting the responsibility of taking care of all of our new members. With that being said, what better way to get familiar with the ISSA website than with these informative Video Tours by our ...

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Communication barriers? Not anymore!

By |2024-01-05T22:18:36-06:00April 26, 2016|

Did you know that performing the same task incorrectly or using the equipment incorrectly over a period of time can have a serious impact on your employee’s long-term health and productivity?  We are offering an e-learning program completely in SPANISH covering the importance of proper use of cleaning tools to avoid injuries caused by repetitive ...

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Happy Earth Day!

By |2024-01-05T22:18:35-06:00April 22, 2016|

More than just one day…Earth Day is plural in that every day should be a day of cleaning up our environment, planting a tree, and eliminating our air of fossil fuels. Our country should be recycled and restored to its original healthy state. Help ISSA celebrate Earth Day by doing your part in cleaning up ...

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Green vs. Sustainability

By |2024-01-05T22:18:35-06:00April 18, 2016|

I came across this article outlining the triple bottom-line. Stephen Ashkin, the founder of the Green Cleaning network, explains how people tend to confuse green and sustainability. You will find that sustainability encompasses a three-fold tier, which includes green. In order for an organization to be complete in their process, they must sustain by becoming ...

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Attention BSCs: This Seminar is for You!

By |2024-01-05T22:18:34-06:00April 11, 2016|

You cannot miss The Cleaning Management Institute’s (CMI) supercharged two-day seminar—Business Growth Strategies—that focuses on the difficult challenges that building service contractors (BSCs) face on a day-to -day basis. Exclusive for BSCs, this all-new seminar is like the Six Sigma of the cleaning industry! You will come out empowered to apply processes that can instantaneously reduce defects ...

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Calling ALL ISSA Members!

By |2024-01-05T22:18:34-06:00April 8, 2016|

Have you received your ISSA Membership Logo? Here is mine looking polished right on my very cube! What better way to express the pride in being a member of ISSA than an official ISSA Member Logo. The logo can be placed on the bumper of your company car, on your office desk, on a window ...

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Good to See You: TUG Recap

By |2024-01-05T22:18:33-06:00April 6, 2016|

Happy Wednesday all! We were so happy to meet and talk with you at The United Group (TUG) conference last week in Las Vegas, NV. Filled with speed meetings, ceremonies, fellowship, and good food — the TUG conference was a success! It provided an opportunity for us to get to know our current members in ...

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Shake Things up This Spring

By |2024-01-05T22:18:33-06:00April 5, 2016|

The term “spring cleaning” dates back thousands of years to an honored tradition shared by many religions at about the same time each year. In what is now March and April, these faiths instructed followers that this was the time of year for “shaking the house,” as one religion called it, and getting everything thoroughly ...

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