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

SC Johnson, parent company of SC Johnson Professional, has signed an agreement to purchase Method and Ecover, two suppliers of environmentally friendly cleaning products, from People Against Dirty.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a major update to the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, ...

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 ...

IICRC is recognized as the premier standards-writing organization in the cleaning, inspection, restoration, and hard surface industries. IICRC standards are accredited as American National Standards, ...

If more building owners and facilities managers knew the proper way to clean out their roof gutters, there would be fewer injuries and deaths and far less property damage. Fall is the season when ...

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 ...

Marketing has changed dramatically for building service contractors (BSCs) during the past decade. We have gone from marketing our products, our services, our companies—and even ourselves—to ...

Continuous improvement requires continuous evaluation, which is exactly where cleaning inspections come into play. Whether you are a cleaning contractor or an in-house operation, cleaning inspections ...

Last month, we set up the criteria and goals for our study of Team vs. Zone Cleaning. Now, we will uncover the profile of the facilities we surveyed as well as the findings. Profile of included ...

This year’s flu season has been worse than normal, and experts are warning that the current flu vaccine may only be 10 percent effective. With this in mind, and given that on any given workday ...

When was the last time you thought about the residues from cleaning chemicals and the possible effect they have on you, your facility and its occupants? Almost all of the chemical cleaning products we ...