News – Healthcare Facility Cleaning

Sodexo Recognized for Supporting Gender Equality in the Workplace

By |2024-07-02T21:43:01-05:00June 20, 2024|

Sodexo’s United Kingdom division, Sodexo UK and Ireland, has been named one of the Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 by The Times. The British daily national newspaper’s annual list, developed with local business networking organization Business in the Community (BITC), recognizes organizations that make gender equality a priority in their workplaces. Sodexo was ...

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ISSA Unveils New Wave of CIMS Advanced by GBAC Certified Cleaning Organizations

By |2024-07-01T14:16:09-05:00June 18, 2024|

ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, is pleased to announce 12 ISSA member companies have successfully achieved Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) Advanced by GBAC certification or CIMS-Green Building (CIMS-GB) Advanced by GBAC certification in the second quarter of 2024. CIMS and CIMS-GB certification help to set cleaning organizations and their green cleaning operations apart in the marketplace. It also ...

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ISSA Hosts Successful 2024 Business Growth Strategies Conference

By |2024-07-01T22:06:24-05:00June 17, 2024|

Dozens of cleaning industry professionals from across the United States converged on ISSA’s Rosemont, Illinois, headquarters for the 2024 Business Growth Strategies Conference. This exclusive three-day event took place June 11-13 and featured nearly 20 cleaning industry thought leaders who shared their expertise on such topics as optimizing performance practices, enhancing sales techniques, improving worker ...

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ABM Adds to UK Team

By |2024-07-01T21:59:52-05:00June 17, 2024|

ABM recently expanded its leadership team for it’s ABM UK & Ireland division with the appointments of three executives. Tony Hampson has been appointed vice president of operations. He joined ABM from Amey, where he served as director of operations. In his new position, he will oversee the expansion and integration of the company’s technical solutions ...

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Cintas Starts Search for Top EVS Tech

By |2024-07-01T21:54:58-05:00June 17, 2024|

Cintas Corp. is now accepting submissions for its 2024 Cleaning to Advance the Patient Experience (C.A.P.E.) Award. The fifth-annual awards program recognizes environmental services (EVS) technicians in acute or long-term care facilities for performing exceptional essential services. The Cintas C.A.P.E. Award is open to all acute and long-term care EVS technicians who have worked at their facility ...

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GBAC STAR Facility Reaccreditation Assists With Keeping NBA Finals Fans Healthy

By |2024-06-12T15:00:56-05:00June 12, 2024|

American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, recently completed the reaccreditation process for GBAC® STAR Facility Accreditation from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC), a Division of ISSA.  The 19,200-seat sports arena, home of the NHL’s Dallas Stars and the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, joined more than 100 facilities across the globe in renewing its GBAC STAR Facility Accreditation ...

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Cintas Earns Seventh Consecutive Fortune 500 Ranking

By |2024-06-10T19:35:32-05:00June 10, 2024|

Cintas Corp. has been ranked in the 2024 Fortune 500, marking the seventh consecutive year the company has been included in the publication’s annual list. To compile its annual list, Fortune magazine examines U.S.-based companies who file financial statements with a government agency and ranks them based on their last available fiscal year revenues. Cintas posted US$8.82 ...

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ISSA LARU—OSHA Updates Hazard Communication Standard

By |2024-06-07T14:00:45-05:00June 7, 2024|

Welcome to the latest ISSA Legislative & Regulatory Update, a biweekly roundup of the public-policy issues currently impacting the full cleaning supply chain. This update touches on DOL releasing a final rule updating its Hazard Communication Standard, EPA issuing its 2023 PRIA annual report, two upcoming ISSA webinars on recent labor laws and regulations, and ...

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ABM Reports 2% Rise in 2nd-Quarter Revenue

By |2024-06-06T19:56:15-05:00June 6, 2024|

ABM has reported a fiscal second-quarter revenue of US$2 billion, a 2% year-over-year increase in sales. The company reported a quarterly net income of $43.8 million, or $0.69 per share, down 16% compared to $51.9 million, or $0.78 per share, last year. ABM attributed the decline to the absence of a $12.6 million pre-tax gain related to ...

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California Assembly Passes Janitorial Workloading Bill

By |2024-06-04T21:59:39-05:00June 4, 2024|

On May 22, the California State Assembly amended and passed a bill (AB 2364) that would have imposed a 2,000 square feet per hour production-rate limit for workers, as well as increased the costs of mandatory, in person harassment-training programs for all cleaning service employers.  While the amended bill removed the production-rate limit, it would ...

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