The Cleaning & Hygiene Suppliers Association’s Independent Inspector conducted more than 139 audits in 2022, guaranteeing the continued integrity of the Association’s Accreditation Schemes. In the process he inspected over 1,500 labels, tested over 507 product lines and physically tested 4,170 individual products. Compliance continued to be high, each Scheme achieving over 90%.

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Union Industries has continued to support the upgrade of Ragus Sugar’s facilities in Slough with a further installation of its leading high-speed industrial doors. The latest two Bulldoors have replaced two poor performing doors at the factory’s main Vat Processing Room, that is in constant use by forklift trucks and personnel. The British-built Bulldoors are equipped to deal with the positive pressures imposed on them by their air-filtration systems along with around the clock use, increasing productivity due to its high speed and ease of use.

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You’ll get ‘head to toe’ functionality and protection with Snickers Workwear’s ergonomic base layers, insulating mid layers and weather-protective outer layer clothing. They not only allow craftsmen and craftswomen to quickly adjust to changing weather conditions, but also give them the opportunity to make sustainable choices about the clothes they wear on site.

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With virtually every industry competing fiercely for skilled staff, outdoor FM is being particularly hard hit as experienced staff retire, access to overseas workers dries up and young people staying in education longer struggle to identify with careers in grounds care. For many businesses, these challenges have reached a tipping point: At one of our customers – a large further education college, the head groundsman – a veteran of forty years – had been struggling to recruit an understudy and to find staff living locally. As winter came around, these pressures had started to bite. Where previously the college’s estates team had been handling snow clearing and gritting in-house, the shortage of staff willing and able to be on site early in the day was leaving the campus and its hundreds of students dangerously exposed to the risks of trips and falls.

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Air-freshening specialist P-Wave has added two new urinal screen options to its market-leading ranges. “As experts in high-performance urinal screens, we are constantly looking for ways to ensure we offer products that meet the needs of our customers. As these needs evolve, so must our product range,” says P-Wave Sales and Marketing Manager Mark Wintle. “To complement the successful and popular Slant6, we have now added P-Wave 360 which delivers fewer change-outs as the powerful fragrance lasts for up to 60 days, plus the budget-friendly WCBasix.”

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B-Sure Installations has launched its B-Spoke Hygiene Boards service across the UK, following a successful trial to support customers during COVID. B-Spoke Hygiene Boards are designed specifically to meet all a customer’s hygiene needs in one and are pre-treated to be completely anti-microbial. Each board is installed on-site by B-Sure Installation engineers into workplace and public areas to provide prominent hygiene stations with clear and understandable instructions.

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Union Industries’ engineers acted almost as fast as its rapid roll industrial doors to ensure one of its Eiger freezer doors was fitted in record time at Total Foodservice Solutions. To ensure that productivity at the busy Yorkshire-based food service company wasn’t impacted, installation of the Eiger door was required to take place in a two-and-a-half-day window during a weekend. This is around half the time usually required to install the freezer door, however a team of three highly experienced Union Industries engineers, completed the job, which included the removal of an existing door, with time to spare.

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One of the UK’s leading PPE providers is warning businesses about a worrying rise in the number of employees taking their technical workwear home to be washed. phs Besafe, which offers specialist protective workwear and industrial laundry services, is seeing increasing reports of PPE being cleaned at home, in many cases along with family clothing and bedding. “Not only is this dangerous for the employee and others that live with them, but it also poses a major risk to the business who have a legal responsibility to ensure that the PPE provided is cared for, maintained and fit for purpose,” said Derek Brown, Managing Director of phs Besafe.

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phs Compliance based in Warrington has appointed a dedicated General Manager for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, as the leading compliance provider expands its electric vehicle division nationwide. Natalie Morden has been with the phs Group – which phs Compliance is part of – for the last eight years, working in the hygiene division as the Midlands Regional Sales Manager. She makes the move to the newly created role of General Manager EV Infrastructure for phs Compliance as the business continues to grow its electric vehicle charger installation services.

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Euro Car Parts is the UK’s leading distributor of car parts and accessories with over 200 sites across the country. With demand for its services higher than ever, the business has more than 500,000 branded totes in transit as it moves parts around the UK. However, its main warehouse in Tamworth found itself accumulating over 20,000 totes, all heavily contaminated with oil and excessive labelling making them unfit for use. As well as creating an eyesore outside the warehouse, the unusable totes were causing the business a financial challenge.

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