Cleaning and disinfection processes as part of a decontamination procedure must be designed to provide effective infection control and prevention of respiratory disease-causing viruses. One such virus has come to light recently, The Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the coronavirus belongs to a large family of viruses...
The domestic cleaning market in the UK is estimated to be worth nearly £3 billion, with more than 2.45 million households using some form of paid assistance in their home[1] It is highly likely that these figures seriously underestimate the true extent of the breadth...
Our comprehensive cleaning and infection control course is intended for routine and deep cleaning in hospitals and other medical centres, and is based on international guidance from the ‘Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ (CDC) in the US, the ‘World Health Organisation’ (WHO) and the...
People with learning disabilities often face barriers as they try to enter the workplace, employers are by in large sympathetic, but often a little apprehensive about what to ‘expect’, or how they should ‘handle’ these people. This apprehension is two-pronged: employers are worried that people...
Cleaning in doctor’s surgeries and clinics often takes a back seat or neglected all together, and yet the public who use these facilities every day are, by their very nature, more susceptible to illness or more likely to carry an illness. All it takes is...
The requirements under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (and the inspections that enforce those requirements) stipulate that all practices must meet a number of fundamental standards of care, one of those key standards is that premises and equipment must be clean and suitable...
Every cleaning system is unique to the organisation in which it’s implemented, you will find that even simple cleaning operations like floor mopping, there will be numerous changes made to that operation that are specific to that application. It is therefore important to understand the...
To begin to understand how problems in cleaning (or the lack of cleaning) arise, we need to appreciate that cleaning is a technical skill, even though it is not viewed as such in the wider society. We take for granted that anyone can clean, and...
Cleaning is a critical part of any business, in any industry, either directly or indirectly. It is easy to imagine the repercussions that would follow to health if cleaning was so poor, or stopped altogether, in a hospital; but imagine the repercussions to any other...
Are you up to date with your cleaning? Here’s why you may not be, even if you think you are: “We thought we knew everything we needed to know about cleaning, you helped us see how wrong we were” “I’ve been to many classes and seminars before,...