This blog explores how to think differently about your recycling and waste footprint with tips on what you can do to help.
What is the real value of our cleaners?
Until recently, our cleaning teams were lauded. So why are they leaving now and can we prevent it?
Should we go out to tender?
In this blog, we look at whether you need to go out to tender to appoint an external cleaning contractor.
The value of post-pandemic FM benchmarking
Benchmarking; the act of comparing business processes and performance to industry best practices within a peer group, and allowing organisations to continually make improvements in productivity by focusing on quality, time and cost. The year 2022 finds us transitioning into uncharted territory, ‘the new normal’: presenting businesses with a myriad of unseasoned hurdles. The situation […]
Need to examine your WEEE*?
Even though legislative changes won’t occur before 2024/25, or enforceable before 2025/26, why not get ahead of the game and consider improvements you can make now?
Safety first with high-level cleaning
While cleaning equipment with extendable poles can reach up to four metres in height, cleaning at higher levels has traditionally been carried out with the use of a ladder or specialist equipment such as cherry pickers or scaffolding.
Shake up for the smelly waste
The Government is planning separate, weekly food waste collections by 2023 to increase recycling rates, minimise the onslaught of pests and flies, attracted by the stench of our rotting food waste and, therefore, reduce volumes to landfill.
Chips. Not the spud kind: Smart bins
You’re probably familiar with examples of near field communication (NFC) sensors on some of the packaging in shops and supermarkets. The same technology allows users to pay with their phones.
i-Clean reports National Living Wage breaches
i-Clean Systems Ltd, has reported finding that some cleaning operatives are still not being paid the mandatory National Living Wage, despite its introduction on 1st April this year. Mike Boxall, Managing Director said: “Some cleaning contractors claim that this is simply down to a delay in updating their payroll systems and that all cleaners will receive […]
Sitemark joins EHRC taskforce
Sitemark, the independent best practice benchmarking specialist that has reviewed the practices of over 200 cleaning providers across 5000+ buildings has joined the Equality and Human Rights Commission responsible procurement taskforce to share knowledge on best practice and responsible procurement in the cleaning industry. Following on from the Invisible Workforce report of August 2014, which […]
Sustainable waste management
Paul Taylor, Recycling & Waste Project Manager at Sitemark advises care homes on how to execute a sustainable waste management plan in 2015. The festive season generally serves to highlight the amount of waste produced in care homes. From unwrapped presents, extra food waste and glass bottles, to Christmas trees stripped of their needles – […]
Cleaning contractor performance varies by 49%
The latest figures published by i-Clean Systems shows a growing gap between the best and worst performing contract cleaning providers, based on its most recent efficiency review results. The independent reviews conducted for the last 10 UK contracted sites, including those in the commercial, education and healthcare sectors, show the most efficient contract provider operating […]