Monthly Archives: December 2022

ISSA Releases Best Practices for Menstrual Care Solutions in Public Restrooms

By |2024-03-11T15:48:31-05:00December 29, 2022|

ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, has released its Best Practices for Menstrual Care Solutions in Public Restrooms. The document provides cleaning professionals, architects, employers, facility managers, governments, and others with guidelines to create a clean, healthy, and positive restroom experience for customers, employees, and students who menstruate. “ISSA created this document as part of ...

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IICRC Standards Available for Public Review

By |2024-03-11T15:48:31-05:00December 28, 2022|

The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) has opened public review for the following standards as part of the ANSI 45-day public review period. All comments must be submitted using the appropriate online comment form links listed below no later than the indicated deadlines: Revised draft IICRC S520 Standard for Professional Mold Remediation. ...

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ISSA-Supported Pesticide Registration Improvement Act Included in Passed Omnibus Package

By |2024-03-11T15:48:29-05:00December 23, 2022|

ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, announced that the Congressional reauthorization of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA 5) is included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, which passed today. PRIA provides necessary resources to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), which oversees the registration of disinfectants and sanitizers. ...

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ISSA LARU—EPA Safer Choice Preparing Outreach Campaign

By |2024-03-11T15:48:30-05:00December 23, 2022|

Welcome to the latest ISSA Legislative & Regulatory Update, a biweekly roundup of the public policy issues currently impacting the full cleaning supply chain. This update touches on EPA’s Safer Choice program preparing a national outreach campaign in 2023; the free ISSA webinar, How to Leverage National Cleaning Week; Tom Friedl’s insights regarding ISSA’s 100-year ...

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JAN-PRO Plans Expansion in Puerto Rico

By |2024-03-11T15:48:27-05:00December 22, 2022|

According to Puerto Rico business media website News Is My Business (NimB), JAN-PRO Cleaning & Disinfecting plans to open as many as three new office locations to support the company’s franchisees in Puerto Rico. The company expects to spend more than US$100,000 over the next 12 months on its current expansion in the Puerto Rico ...

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PuroClean Raises Over $18K, Collects Food Donations for Feeding America

By |2024-03-11T15:48:29-05:00December 21, 2022|

PuroClean recently announced that its 70-member home office team raised a total of US$13,200 in financial donations this year for Feeding America, in addition to collecting more than 100 pounds of food donations during its annual Thanksgiving food drive. An annual effort, in 2021, the PuroClean brand raised over $15,000 at its annual Convention for ...

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Kaivac First to Apply for ISSA Cleaning Times Validation Seal Program

By |2024-03-11T15:48:28-05:00December 21, 2022|

ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, today announced that Kaivac is the first organization to apply for the ISSA Cleaning Times Validation Seal Program. Kaivac is working to gain this seal for the production rates of five existing ISSA cleaning times using four cleaning systems: KaiVac® 1250, AutoVac Stretch™, UniVac®, and Cooler Case Cleaner. “Labor ...

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Consensus Group Launches Women in Cleaning Global Platform

By |2024-03-11T15:48:28-05:00December 20, 2022|

Netherlands-based Consensus Group, a hygiene and health innovations and services company, has announced the launch of Women in Cleaning, a new global platform to give women within the cleaning industry the opportunity to share their career visions. “In a male-dominated industry, we believe that the women who are making a daily difference in our world ...

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P&G Helps Fight Period Poverty

By |2024-03-11T15:48:27-05:00December 19, 2022|

Proctor & Gamble (P&G), parent company of Proctor & Gamble Professional (P&G PRO), recently donated 50,000 Always brand menstrual pads for distribution by a group students and alumni of Ringling College in Sarasota, Florida. The group recently distributed pads at Electa Lee Middle School and Ballard Elementary School, both located in Bradenton, Florida. The donation is ...

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ISSA Canada Director Brock Tully Offers Industry Insights

By |2024-03-21T02:41:22-05:00December 19, 2022|

Brock Tully is a busy man these days. Not only is he a vice president with Bunzl Cleaning & Hygiene, but he also is starting his first term as a member of the ISSA Board of Directors, serving as the director of ISSA Canada. In this edition of Straight Talk!, Tully walks ISSA Media Director ...

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