ISSA/INTERCLEAN Show, 8 to 11 May 2012, Amsterdam ISSA/INTERCLEAN Amsterdam 2012 will present a number of educational and highly topical seminars, notably focusing on world hygiene issues and the need to train suitably skilled operators. As well as offering an opportunity to learn from international experts, the seminars will be complemented with roundtable sessions ‘to discuss the subjects with like-minded [...]
In February 2012, the Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) will call for public submissions on a Consultation Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) that analyses four options for reducing the security risks posed by a number of chemicals that can be used to make homemade explosives. AGD is particularly interested in feedback from businesses, contractors, and cleaning services that import, manufacture, distribute, transport, handle [...]
To all our readers, advertisers, exhibitors and attendees, we wish you an enjoyable and safe Christmas and a prosperous 2012. Though the past year has been challenging and the economic woes in Europe create uncertainty, the INCLEAN/AUSCLEAN portfolio has continued to grow. We will look for new media opportunities in the next few years for our industry, particularly partnerships that [...]
While free job ads have undoubted appeal, the enduring success of a jobs website lies in how well it can target, and then actually reach, all of the potential job market. And that includes those hard to reach people who didn’t even know they wanted to move! When it comes to online job boards, while ‘targeted and specialised’ is usually [...]
Setting what it claims to be the benchmark for performance, the Property Council of Australia ‘has once again raised the bar’ for new office buildings, with guidelines that support the delivery of more sustainable, productive and efficient office premises. Of import to the cleaning industry, it covers ‘building services’. The newly revised Guide to Office Building Quality (The Guide), identifies typical [...]
On Friday, 25th November 2011, WorkCover NSW and NSW Public Works signed an interagency agreement to improve consistency in workplace health and safety standards across more than a billion dollars of public assets. According to the media release, WorkCover CEO Lisa Hunt said the agreement would have wide ranging benefits due to the large amount of work carried out by [...]
The Fair Work Ombudsman, Nicholas Wilson The cleaning industry will be subjected to ongoing scrutiny, including more audits, by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). That’s according to the recently released ‘Report on the preliminary outcomes of the Fair Work Ombudsman Sham Contracting Operational Intervention’. One of the Report’s recommendations is businesses that engage contractors, particular for lengthy periods of time, [...]
The Cleaning Industry Research Institute International (CIRI) last week announced Dr Eugene Cole as its key note speaker and provided topic subjects for its next symposium. Titled Cleaning and Disinfection: the Science and Practice and Controversy, the conference will be held at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Centre in Atlanta, USA from 9 to 11 November 2011. A well [...]
AustralianSuper’s Balanced option returned 10.27% for the financial year ended 30 June 2011, comparing well with the median balanced option return of 8.71%. Over 10 years, AustralianSuper’s average annual return of 6.13% considerably outperforms the median balanced option return of 4.94%. These were among the financial highlights of AustralianSuper’s recently mailed SuperBusiness bulletin for employers. AustralianSuper chair Elana Rubin noted [...]
With already strong delegate registrations, the World Federation of Building Service Contractors (WFBSC) is upbeat about its 2012 Congress, which will focus on the organisation’s ‘Cleaning for Health’ initiative. Supported by major sponsors Diversey and Karcher, the Congress will be held in Brazil’s ‘green’ city of Curitiba from 10 to 14 October 2012. According to a statement earlier this week [...]
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