The old saying that it is so clean you can eat off of the floor might not apply to one restaurant chain.

Olive Garden's corporate leadership -- Darden Restaurants -- has told its outlets that washing the carpet twice a month is too expensive, and that should be done only once a month, according to a report from Bloomberg.

The business website said Darden, which also owns LongHorn Steakhouse and others, has sent teams to the restaurants to examine "every single invoice" for ideas to cut expenses. That is how it learned of the twice per month carpet cleaning ... 

More at source: 10 News

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Good News! You can do something about the risk of indoor air pollution and its detrimental effects on your employees.  When you choose Stronghold Cleaning & Maintenance Services (SCMS) it is a step in  the right direction, we can  help you improve the indoor air quality in your office. How do we do it?

• ·         By using green certified cleaning chemicals, which are safer for the environment and your employees

• By using vacuums with closed containers that use HEPA filters, which don’t allow dust and harmful particles to become airborne.
• By using microfiber cleaning cloths instead of feather dusters and static dusters, which move dust around and becomes airborne.
• By using color-coded cleaning cloths that eliminates cross contamination

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Stronghold Cleaning & Maintenance offers eco-friendly Green cleaning to our commercial and residential clients designed to improve indoor air quality.  Research  have  shown that facilities that have switch to green cleaning have:       Healthier Employees       Lower operating cost       Positive environmental impacts &       Greater governmental financial incentives When you choose to go Green, we will help you cut cost, improve your business environment for both your customers and employees and this is something money can't buy. Stronghold Cleaning & Maintenance is very proud to be able to offer a healthy environment to your business and  home.

TORONTO - The head of the Toronto Police sex crimes unit says a brazen daylight sex assault on a cleaning woman last month was “one of the most brutal attacks” she has ever seen.

“It was a very vicious attack,” Insp. Joanna Beaven-Desjardins told a press conference Wednesday.

The attack occurred around 3 p.m. on May 22, in the Deepwood Cr.-Greenland Rd. neighbourhood.

A 24-year-old woman was cleaning a home in the area — prepping it for sale — when a man convinced her to let him in to see the home and sexually assaulted her, police have said.

He fled when he heard a noise outside the house.

A composite sketch of his face was initially released. On Wednesday, police provided a full body composite sketch and further detail on the attacker’s clothes, in an effort to jog people’s memories.

He is described as white, in his mid-20s, around 5-foot-8, weighing 130 pounds with a thin build, and has straight medium-light red hair that sticks out at ear level.

He wore a faded orange shirt, torn at the collar, and blue jeans that had been cut into shorts, with frayed edges below the knee level. He also had black running shoes with white writing.

“Take note of the shirt,” Beaven-Desjardins said. “The shirt is described as being very worn, very well-worn, almost to the point where it was starting to yellow, and at the collar of the shirt it was either cut or ripped.”

More at source: Toronto Sun

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A man has died of massive internal burns after mistakenly being served undiluted detergent, which was being stored in an empty bottle of white wine.

The 49-year-old man died of internal burns after drinking cleaning fluid he thought was white wine in the city of Benicarló in the Spanish province of Castellón.

Andrés Lorente was in bar Raconet, on Isabel de Villena square, for a Sunday afternoon drink on June 14th when he was served what he thought was a glass of white wine.

In fact the liquid he was served was cleaning fluid that had been stored in an empty bottle of wine and mistakenly been put in the fridge by a member of staff.

After taking a sip of what he thought was white wine, Lorente felt a burning sensation, according to local newspaper, El Periódico Mediterraneo. 

In an attempt to cool the burning sensation he felt in his throat Lorente drank water, according to witnesses, something which could have contributed to the corrosive effect of the cleaning fluid in his body.

More at source: Local.Es

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ST. LOUIS (CNN) - A video released by the U.S. National Park Service shows the nerve-racking job of cleaning the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

The arch is the tallest monument in the U.S., rising 630 feet above St. Louis.

In addition to cleaning the monument, the crew that scaled it also collected samples of discoloration for a study on the arch's corrosion.

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Dallas County commissioners voted Tuesday to extend two janitorial contracts despite low pay for workers but said they’ll continue to look for ways to boost wages.

The extensions allow Dallas County to step up its cleaning routine in buildings that have had problems with overflowing trash cans, dirty toilets and rats. They also give the county time to prepare new bid specifications that would allow commissioners to weigh a variety of factors, not just cost, in awarding the contracts.

The new requirements could indirectly lead to higher wages for janitors, County Judge Clay Jenkins said. No Dallas County employees earn less than $10 an hour, but janitors and others who work for private contractors often receive the $7.25 minimum wage or close to it.

A group of more than 20 Dallas County judges urged commissioners to support higher wages for janitors in a letter written by state District Judge Ken Molberg.

“Each of us is hopeful that any revision of the cleaning services contract will provide an opportunity for the county to address the low wages paid to the people who clean up behind us,” the letter read.

Five people asked commissioners Tuesday to set an example for local companies by requiring higher wages for contract workers. One speaker, who said he struggles to pay bills and afford groceries, was still dressed in a Wal-Mart vest.

More at source: DallasNews.Com

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Janitorial Neglect Is Not ‘Professional Negligence’ C.A. Rules

Panel Says Action by Woman Who Slipped on Wet Floor Is Not Subject to Limitations Period Set Forth in MICRA Simply Because Mishap Occurred in a Hospital

 

The Court of Appeal has reversed a judgment in favor of a hospital that invoked the one-year statute of limitation applicable to medical malpractice actions in a case where a woman sued for injuries she sustained, while a patient, upon slipping and falling upon a freshly mopped floor on which a warning sign had not been placed.

Summary judgment had been granted by Orange Superior Court Judge Luis A. Rodriguez to Prime Healthcare Services-Anaheim LLP, which operates West Anaheim Medical Center, based on the limitations period in the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA).

Reversal came late Thursday in an opinion by acting Presiding Justice William F. Rylaarsdam of Fourth District’s Div. Three. The action is governed by the two-year time-bar that pertains, under Code of Civil Procedure §335.1, to ordinary negligence suits, rather than the shortened period prescribed by MICRA, in §340.5 of that code, he said.

The jurist reviewed prior conflicting decisions on the issue and said that the issue is presently before the California Supreme Court.

Quotes Definition

Rylaarsdam added emphasis in quoting this portion of §340.5:

“‘Professional negligence’ means a negligent act or omission to act by a health care provider in the rendering of professional services, which act or omission is the proximate cause of a personal injury or wrongful death, provided that such services are within the scope of services for which the provider is licensed and which are not within any restriction imposed by the licensing agency or licensed hospital.”

“Plaintiff’s complaint, alleging she was injured when she slipped and fell on a recently mopped floor, did not occur in the rendering of professional services but rather sounds in ordinary negligence. Therefore, the action is governed by the two-year statute of limitations (§ 335.1), making the lawsuit timely.

Rodriguez, in granting summary judgment, relied on the Court of Appeal’s opinion in Murillo v. Good Samaritan Hospital (1979) 99 Cal.App.3d 50. There, the Fourth District’s Div. Two reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of a hospital in a case where a patient fell from a bed when the guard rails were down, but observed:

“[T]he question whether it was negligent to leave the bedrails down during the night while plaintiff was asleep is a question involving hospital’s duties to recognize the condition of patients under its care and to take appropriate measures for their safety. Thus, the question is squarely one of professional negligence [citation] and section 340.5 governs the running of the statute of limitations.”

1974 Decision

The plaintiff cited contrary cases such as Gopaul v. Herrick Memorial Hosp. (1974) 38 Cal.App.3d 1002, decided by the First District before the enactment of MICRA. There, it was observed:

“No reasonable person would suggest that ‘professional malpractice’ was the cause of injury to a patient from a collapsing chair in a doctor’s office, or to a client from his attorney’s negligent driving en route to the court house, or to a hospital patient from a chandelier falling onto his bed. Such injuries would, no doubt, have proximately resulted from ‘ordinary negligence,’ but they would not be brought about from ‘professional malpractice.’ ”

Rylaarsdam said:

“We disagree with Murillo’s dictum that a negligently maintained, unsafe condition of a hospital’s premises which causes injury to a patient qualifies as professional negligence. Rather, injury to a patient from a falling chandelier, or a recently mopped floor, does not fall within the meaning of professional negligence as defined in section 340.5.”

The case is Pouzbaris v. Prime Healthcare Services-Anaheim, LLP, 15 SOS 2020.

Second District Opinion

The case pending before the California Supreme Court is Flores v. Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital. Although Rylaarsdam said it involves a “similar issue,” it was decided in 2013 by this district’s Div. Three on a different basis.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yvonne T. Sanchez had ruled that an action by a woman who fell out of bed when a rail collapsed by time-barred, under MICRA. Reversal came in an opinion by then-Presiding Justice Joan Dempsey Klein.

She said that a “discrete issue” was raised in the case because the injury did not stem from hospital negligence but from “equipment failure,” and that the two-year statute of limitation for ordinary negligence therefore applied.

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More at source: Met News

 

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Spring cleaning is a necessary evil this time of the year, but if you're not careful you could end up nursing a serious injury until summer. Dr. Tom Waters, an Emergency Department physician at Cleveland Clinic, says falls cause a lot of injuries each spring.

"If you take a significant fall and you're having serious pain or any deformity to a limb, or back pain, neck pain, you need to get yourself to the hospital as quick as possible," he warned.

Waters says serious falls tend to come off of a ladder, or when someone is standing on a countertop or ledge to reach high places. You can decrease your risk by always using a ladder on level ground and by finding a volunteer to hold it.

Cleaning chemicals can be risky too, causing burns or irritating the skin, especially if they are mixed together. The fumes alone could irritate your lungs and land you in the ER.

More at source: Channel 4 JAX

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You may be ready to launch into spring cleaning after the cold blasts, but be careful. Many common household cleaners have hazardous chemicals.

You may be ready to launch into spring cleaning after the cold blasts, but be careful. Many common household cleaners have hazardous chemicals.

Consumer Reports shows how you can still get your house clean without them.

Do you know what's inside the cleaner you use to wash windows and glass, kitchens and bathrooms? Consumer Reports said some ingredients are dangerous.

Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., the director of Consumer Safety and Sustainability at Consumer Reports, has advice to help you choose the safest.

"Regular housecleaning shouldn't require harsh chemicals. You should stay away from antibacterials like dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride. These chemicals may help promote antibiotic-resistant bacteria," Rangan said.

That harsh chemical can be found in Scrubbing Bubbles Heavy Duty All-Purpose Cleaner and some types of Clorox Disinfecting Wipes.

Better choices include Clorox Green Works All-Purpose Cleaner, which did well in Consumer Reports' tough mess test. Also consider Clorox Healthcare Bleach Germicidal Wipes. They are a good option for occasional disinfecting, like when there's a cold or flu around.

More at source: ABC

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