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…
Across food service and hospitality venues, the next couple of months could be busier than normal with Christmas nearly upon us and ensuring the venue is hygenic and cleaned to the highest standards is paramount to the customer’s experience. From lobbies to lavatories, the pandemic heightened hygiene measures and customer expectations. Regular cleaning schedules should…
Washrooms are often an afterthought when the cleaning is being considered for premises used by staff or members of the public, but did you know clean, hygienic washrooms can have a positive impact on employees in the workplace and repeat business. Washrooms are not always the most hygienic of places, they are as a norm,…
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…
Just when we thought Spring was just around the corner, another cold spell is predicted for next week which means that winter germs will be in circulation for longer. Each year there are between 600,000 – 1 million cases of Norovirus in the UK and this year it is predicted that the figure could be…
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…
Rising rates of COVID, records levels of Scarlet Fever / Strep A and the winter flu season means that infections can spread more easily at this time of year in the workplace. Surfaces should be cleaned and disinfected regularly as part of a normal cleaning routine with close attention being paid to high touch surfaces…
Winter brings extra challenges and with December being the busiest time of year for many businesses, this is the time to pay particular attention to the cleaning and care of your floor surfaces. Pubs and restaurants fill up with work and family Christmas get together and shoppers are out in force in the run up…