The annual Hygiene Matters report conducted by SCA, manufacturer of Tork, aims to raise awareness of the connection between hygiene, health and wellbeing among decision makers, experts and the general public around the world. In 2011 the report’s focus is on women and hygiene, and how it is managed outside of the home and in social siutations, clearly demonstrating the [...]
Delivering world class and leading edge technical information about where the industry, as a whole, is headed, CIRI continues to act as the most substantial forum in which the new science that underpins the entire cleaning sector is presented, reviewed and discussed. By Greg Whiteley* The latest meeting of the Cleaning Industry Research Institute (International) was held in the second [...]
In what could, hopefully, become a trend, an Arizona woman has been campaigning for more hygienic playgrounds. A late October item by the Chicago Tribune’s Monica Eng, reported that Erin Carr-Jordan has spent much of the last eight months calling attention to dirty conditions at indoor fast-food playgrounds. As a result one of the world’s leading fast-food chains has banned [...]
The Institute of Hospitality in HealthCare Ltd (IHHC) is inviting national and international participation in its Topical Topics in the Tropics Conference by submitting an abstract to present at its annual national conference to be held in Cairns, North Queensland, 12 to 14 September 2012. The conference, themed ‘Innovative Practice in Healthcare Hospitality and Support Services’, aims to provide a [...]
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) is offering a free, one hour webinar for educators and health professionals about hygienic hand washing techniques. The event takes place Monday October 3 2011 at 6:30 pm US Eastern Standard Time. You can register online at: www2.gotomeeting.com/register/510961714 “In just 60 minutes, we will share up-to-date information about hand washing that will help others raise the [...]
Building service contractors (BSCs) engaged in delivering services to healthcare sites face potential litigation if they fail to deliver adequate cross-contamination cleaning hygiene standards, warns industry RTO Lennox Institute. This important issue will be addressed at the AUSCLEAN Convention 2011, 27 and 28 September. One of Australia’s leading healthcare acquired infection experts, Judy Forrest, will be conducting a Lennox Institute [...]
According to a Canadian newspaper article published last week, some 12,000 Canadians die every year from a hospital-acquired infection and a union is demanding a province give hospitals more money for better housekeeping and more private rooms to stop the spread of superbugs. Peterborough Examiner staff writer Elizabeth Bower reported that Sharon Richer, northern Ontario vice-president of Ontario Council of [...]
The MRSA pandemic continues to be a major public health threat and crisis along with other antimicrobial-resistant pathogens and must become a top political priority worldwide. This year marks 50 years since MRSA emerged into the world. World MRSA Day, 2 October, and World MRSA Awareness Month are opportunities for people worldwide to unite in the fight against MRSA, healthcare-acquired [...]
Evolutionary pathogens could have serious implications for the cleaning industry. A new study published in the British journal Fungal Biology reports that potentially pathogenic fungi including a type of ‘black yeast’ are now able to live in extreme conditions such as in dishwashers.* According to researchers, these same pathogens may also be found in other home appliances such as washing [...]
Macquarie University Hospital’s zero-tolerance approach to infection control is supported by rigorous housekeeper training and a serious investment in the appropriate equipment and tools. Following a visit to this Sydney healthcare site, INCLEAN editor Alan Hardcastle asks the obvious question, ‘is this Australia’s cleanest and most hygienic hospital?’ Opened mid-2010 and owned by Macquarie University, Macquarie University Hospital is a [...]
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