The dispute between Infrashore, the consortium responsible for the $1.1 billion public-private partnership (PPP), the subcontractor ISS Health Services and the government body Health Infrastructure has now reached a turning point. According to a Sydney Morning Herald article (3 March) by Amy Corderoy, ‘infectious patients at Royal North Shore Hospital are being abandoned in corridors […]
3 May, 2012Two recent news articles about poor hand hygiene posted on SMH.com.au are testimony to the ever-increasing awareness and vital role of the cleaning and hygiene industry in public health and the importance of enforcing a national benchmark for hand hygiene standards. This is a major concern for the British Olympic team that has been ‘advised […]
8 March, 2012A paper published this week by scientists at the US’s Centers for Disease Control suggests a new swine flu virus has the potential to cause an outbreak. A post by writer Jason Koebler on the Chicago Tribune’s www.chicagotribune.com said the A(H3N2)v swine flu strain that has infected at least 18 Americans since September 2010 has […]
29 February, 2012The 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 […]
30 November, 2011Delivering 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) […]
16 November, 2011In 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 […]
28 October, 2011The 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 […]
3 October, 2011The 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 […]
25 September, 2011Building 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 […]
14 August, 2011According 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 […]
29 June, 2011The 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 […]
24 June, 2011Evolutionary 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 […]
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