Since 2019, ISSA has been busy building and strengthening our Government Affairs efforts with the goal of creating a legislative and regulatory environment that allows the worldwide cleaning industry to thrive. In 2020, the impact of government—at the federal, state, and local levels—on the cleaning industry became increasing apparent due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions such ...
On February 16, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed numerous revisions to the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) that will require substantial changes to labels and safety data sheets (SDSs) of cleaning products and hazardous chemical products used in workplaces across the nation. OSHA proposed the revisions ...
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become a priority for many businesses. Employers are working hard to develop more diversification within their companies. Why? Because it is just good business. As of 2019, women make up 47% of the United States workforce but hold just over one-third of senior management positions. Women of color hold a ...
As we begin to emerge from the haze of 2020, we still face record numbers of infections and ongoing issues with the pandemic. But one bright light is how the cleaning industry has responded to challenges. One of the most outstanding challenges has been maintaining the health of workers and customers of the businesses and ...
The Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC)™, a division of ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry, helps you prepare for, respond to, and recover from biorisk situations. To help us understand GBAC better, ISSA Media editors met with Patricia Olinger, the executive director of GBAC, and Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner, the director of GBAC, and asked them to ...
Recently, I read an article that was written for Entrepreneur magazine by Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of Hint. The article was entitled, How to Fire an Employee: 4 Ways to Make the Process Kinder. This well-written article outlined the following four strategies, edited for this article, for terminating an employee with compassion and integrity: ...
We all know that last year was challenging in more ways than one. Each of us did different things to survive. But I have found that many of us were able to rely on our community for some much-needed support. Even though the communication was likely on Zoom or Facetime, it was still good to ...
2020 will be a year we will not soon forget. It is also a year that put the cleaning industry front and center in the world’s consciousness. As we all knew it would, the industry rose to the occasion by rolling up its sleeves and getting to work. There are countless stories about manufacturers of ...
2020 will be a year we will not soon forget. It is also a year that put the cleaning industry front and center in the world’s consciousness. As we all knew it would, the industry rose to the occasion by rolling up its sleeves and getting to work. There are countless stories about manufacturers of ...
ISSA members that sell products in California will be significantly impacted by a recent proposal issued by the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) that would implement substantial changes to Proposition 65’s “short-form” warning option. If adopted, the changes will have a substantial adverse impact on the many businesses that ...
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