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First Hygienalia+Pulire judged to have delivered excellent results
- February 17, 2012
- By Kim Taranto
- Management
The ‘first edition’ of Spain’s Hygienalia+Pulire has been judged a success based on achieving planned visitor numbers and, perhaps more importantly, quality buyer traffic. Held inValencialate January/early February, Hygienalia+Pulire surmounted the difficult economic circumstances pervading Europe and Spain in particular. “The organising committee’s mission has been accomplished with some 4,000 professional visitors attending (specifically 3,959), which is the figure that [...]

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ISSA/Interclean seminars focus on public hygiene and training
- February 1, 2012
- By alan
- Management
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 [...]

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Public consultation on chemicals of security concern
- January 4, 2012
- By Kim Taranto
- Management
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 [...]

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Season’s greetings from the INCLEAN and AUSCLEAN team
- December 19, 2011
- By alan
- Management
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 [...]

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‘Targeting’ times for online job boards
- December 13, 2011
- By alan
- Management
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 [...]

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PCA’s revised office building guide covers building services
- December 1, 2011
- By alan
- Management
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 [...]

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Agreement signed to improve safety in Government construction industry
- November 25, 2011
- By alan
- Management
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 [...]

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Cleaning industry will be subjected to constant FWO scrutiny
- November 15, 2011
- By alan
- Contracting, Management
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, [...]

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Microbiologist Dr Eugene Cole to be CIRI conference key speaker
- September 21, 2011
- By admin
- Management
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 [...]

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AustralianSuper continues to significantly outperform median balanced option
- August 23, 2011
- By alan
- Management
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 [...]

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