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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Today’s top challenges for BSCs
Building service contractors (BSCs) have a lot of responsibilities on their lists, from improving their clients’ image to helping with health and safety. As the
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
How to set your janitors up for success
Janitors are often the behind-the-scenes heroes of facility maintenance, keeping everything clean, stocked, and sanitized. They support health and safety and hygiene and they’re often
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
The hiring question: experience or training?
The decision depends on your particular company or facility's circumstances and goals.
Design Quarterly
5 tried and tested recruitment strategies
With many businesses having problems hiring workers, employers must get creative.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ottawa protests stripping janitors of work and pay
"Be good corporate citizens; show you respect Ottawa’s janitors and pay lost wages," pleads a union and advocacy statement.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
5 benefits of outsourcing cleaning services
At a time of labour constraints, turning to outsourced facilities management can help maintain consistent, quality cleaning services.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Prioritizing the safety of cleaning professionals
Now more than ever, cleaning workers need to know that their employers are taking their safety seriously.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
B.C. begins bringing hospital staffing back in-house
B.C. says the move is an attempt to improve wages and work environments and make frontline work more desirable.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
The great cleaning jobs reassessment
The hunt for trained workers to fill vacant cleaning jobs is proving difficult for many companies as the effects of COVID-19 continue.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
CEO writes poem honouring janitors as first responders
The critical role played by custodial staff has been increasingly recognized during COVID-19.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Pushing for the cleaning industry to get priority vaccine access
ISSA and the American Cleaning Institute want to see the cleaning industry high on the COVID-19 vaccine priority list.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Outbreak accelerates role of cobotics in cleaning
COVID-19 is expected to push cobotics to the forefront of cleaning as facilities prioritize health and safety more than ever.