A Kansas elementary school experienced a norovirus outbreak that affected nearly 100 people, Johnson County Health officials ...

The November/December issue of Cleaning & Maintenance Management is now available in a digital format. Featuring honest analysis from cleaning professionals regarding the return on investment of the ...

Firing a client shouldn’t be done in a moment of frustration. Long-term decisions should not be made under short-term stress. In my experience, consideration of firing a client is rarely due to a bad ...

As building service contractors and in-house facility managers, part of our job is managing expectations. If you’ve been working in this industry for some time, you may have dealt with expectations ...

Society perceives the professional cleaner as someone who swings a mop, and the job of a custodian as an entry-level position that doesn’t require much education. There is no truth to this statement, ...

In the United States, 849 people died of work injuries caused by slips, trips, and falls in 2016, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Johnson Controls, Inc .—an industrial company with products and services including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning—will invest more than US$7.5 million to upgrade its San Antonio, TX, ...

Being the manager of a commercial laundry plant is a challenging and exciting job. Commercial laundry plants are modern, automated plants with impressive material handling capacity; they are more like ...

As the old saying goes, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” But, in an industrial, institutional or work setting, cleanliness becomes something more earthbound — and, removing unwanted matter from ...

An escalator is one of the first things patrons will see upon entering a hotel, airport or shopping center. No matter how clean the other areas of the building are, if the escalator is not clean ...

First impressions are everything. You have definitely heard that before, and that’s why preparation before meeting a potential client at their space is imperative. Walk-throughs allow you to begin ...

Aramark—a provider of food services, facility management, and uniform and career appel—has been awarded a US$16.6 million contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The three-year food ...