News – Higher Education & K-12 Facility Cleaning

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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Colorado Schools to Provide Free Menstrual Products

By |2024-06-12T20:28:26-05:00June 12, 2024|

Last week, the Colorado House of Representatives passed House Bill 24-1164, also known as the Free Menstrual Products to Students Bill. The legislation requires middle and high schools throughout Colorado to provide free pads and tampons to students in an attempt to mitigate period poverty. Period poverty is a lack of access to menstrual products, ...

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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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JLL Adds Managing Director

By |2024-06-04T20:18:32-05:00June 4, 2024|

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has appointed Kristen Vosmaer managing director of the company’s data center work dynamics division. Vosmaer has worked within the data center industry for more than two decades and joins JLL from GLP where he served as vice president of global operations. A Dutch native, he’s created and managed international teams and worked ...

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Take the ISSA Period Friendly Restroom Survey

By |2024-05-30T18:47:34-05:00May 30, 2024|

As of April 2024, 27 states and Washington, D.C., have passed legislation to help provide students who menstruate with free access to period products by requiring and/or funding schools to do so. Additionally, some countries— including Canada and Scotland— have also created legislative requirements for other away-from-home facilities to do the same. A survey conducted ...

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ISSA Announces Inaugural State Advocacy Leaders

By |2024-05-30T17:48:06-05:00May 30, 2024|

ISSA is proud to announce its first State Advocacy Leaders (SALs). The association launched this “grass-tops” program in January 2024 to grow and strengthen its government-affairs efforts. “We’re excited to engage even more ISSA members from across the cleaning industry and across the United States in advocacy by activating this new initiative,” said ISSA Senior ...

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