Cleaning is the cornerstone of Health and Safety, supporting customer satisfaction, staff wellbeing and long term business success. With rising costs, cheaper options may seem appealing, but this often becomes a false economy. Reducing your cleaning schedule or lowering your budget usually results in inadequate cleaning, weak infection protection and a poor perception of your…
The academic school year is fast approaching its end and the summer break is the perfect time to schedule deep cleaning and prepare for the forthcoming academic year starting in September. USS have been helping keep nurseries, schools, colleges and universities clean for over 30 years and July and August are always two of our…
In the UK someone attends A&E every 11 minutes after sustaining an injury involving a ladder. A recent safety report from The Ladder Association also showed that in 2022, over 80% of commercially available telescopic ladders failed safety tests and worse still over half were sold as being compliant despite being unsafe and potentially dangerous.…
Over 150 industry members have already backed the British Cleaning Council in lobbying government to put cleaning and hygiene at the heart of the national agenda as part of their ‘We Clean, We Care’ campaign. It is important that we learn lessons from the pandemic and that as a country we are better prepared for…
Today is International Happiness Day but did you know despite what you might think cleaning can make you happy. Cleaning and tidying could be key to maintaining your mental and physical wellbeing ultimately making you happier and a clean workspace reduces staff sick days and increases staff productivity so it is important that employers ensure…
The APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) inquiry’s report titled ‘Embedding Effective Hygiene For A Resilient UK’ due to be released before the end of the month will list recommendations to increase disease resilience in the UK. The aim will be to build lessons on what was learnt during the peak of the pandemic, it also…
A new report by MP’s following the COVID pandemic calls for minimum cleaning standards to be introduced for venues. The standards proposed include frequency guidelines and depth of cleaning and the key message of the report is that cleaning and hygiene is to be given top priority in the future in the hope that it…
Have you heard we are SafeContractor approved, SafePQQ verified and achieved Gold Sustainability Verification. This has been achieved for the 6th year running following assessments of our Health and Safety policies, procedures and documentation in line with the SafeContractor Charter Standards. What does this mean for you, our customers:- Peace of mind that we are…