A Cincinnati, Ohio, man owes the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $100,000 in workers’ compensation benefits he received while employed as a janitor, a job he got using a fake ID.  John Monday, aka John Turner, pleaded guilty to fraud in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Nov. 5.

“Mr. Monday clearly took deliberate steps to conceal his employment, and worse, he claimed to be permanently disabled, a designation reserved for only the most severely injured,” said BWC Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer. “Our investigators did an outstanding job, and we are especially grateful to the Spine Institute for turning over information that allowed us to put an end to Mr. Monday’s deception.”

More at source: ClaimsJournal.com

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It seems like every discipline in facility management (FM) is “going green” these days, and for good reason. Green solutions and practices deliver occupational and environmental safety benefits while at the same time often creating operational efficiencies. Commercial cleaning and sanitizing is no exception to this trend. Green cleaning can generate cost savings, provide greater convenience in obtaining solutions, and eliminate the use of harsh chemicals at a facility (which often have negative environmental and safety impacts). One emerging green cleaning and sanitizing option is the use of electrolyzed water.

What Is Electrolyzed Water?

Electrolyzed water describes two solutionsundefineda grease cutting cleaner and a sanitizerundefinedwhich an electrolyzed water system creates through the process of electrolysis. In electrolysis, salt containing water is subjected to an electrical current. The current, along with ion-selective membranes in electrolytic cells, produces two types of solutions: a high pH, non-corrosive dirt and grease cutting cleaner (sodium hydroxide), and a low pH, high dissolved oxygen, chlorine containing sanitizer and disinfectant (hypochlorous acid). The hypochlorous acid acts as a high efficacy sanitizer, while the sodium hydroxide is a broad spectrum cleaning solution.

More at source: Today`s Facility Manager

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There's no need to drag out your full-sized upright or canister vacuum for every little cleanup job. Our labs are just finishing up tests of two sweeper/vacs, the Dyson Hard DC56 ($330) and the Swiffer Sweeper/Vac ($40), which combine a wet or dry sweeping cloth with a light-duty cordless vacuum. But once you’ve used even the standard Swiffer Sweeper, one thing hits youundefinedthe cost of replacement pads, which run 30 to 60 cents each. Some consumers have found creative ways to save on the cost of the Swiffer pads.

As our sibling website the Consumerist reports, there are plenty of other items you can use instead of the actual Swiffer pads, including pads you can knit or sew together, microfiber cloth, paper towels, old socks, cloth diapers, worn washcloths, and old clothesundefinedin other words, any washable fabric. Someone even passed along the suggestion to try washing Swiffer pads.

With the temperature finally dropping, it’s time for residents of Interior Alaska who burn wood to clean their chimneys and check the condition of their pipes.

Every fall, this newspaper writes about homes destroyed by chimney fires. Cleaning and inspecting a chimney can eliminate the problem, but people often put off the chore until it’s too late.

Slow burning fires produce a lot of smoke, especially if the wood is wet. As the smoke cools, material in it condenses into creosote on the inside of chimneys. Since smoldering fires often are all that is needed to keep a home warm in the spring and fall, those seasons typically see above-normal creosote deposition.

When the temperature falls, hotter fires are needed to keep a home warm. If those fires are hot enough to ignite the creosote that has built up in the chimney during the past spring and fall, a dangerous fire can result.

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The beautiful fall foliage is nice to look at -- but a pain in the neck for many homeowners like Jeremy Mitchell.

"It's a pretty wooded lot so basically we have a lot of leaves, stuff falls off the trees, limbs that fall off," Mitchell said. "So that over time has damaged the gutters to the point where they actually started to sag."

Mitchell's home suffered water damage as a result of overflowing gutters.

"We get large branches falling on the house all the time," he said. "I think a combination of that and irregular maintenance to the gutters as far as cleaning them out. I mean cleaning is probably the biggest thing we don't, we 

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Dozens of protesters swirled outside of PNC Bank Downtown during the lunch hour today, banging pots and waving signs as the battle swells between local janitors and national janitorial contractor ABM. 

Inside the bank, Columbus police calmly arrested 12 protesters who sat on the lobby floor and chanted: “ABM, you’re no good. Treat your workers like you should.”

Ten people were arrested during a similar protest earlier this month in in the Fifth Third Center Downtown.

More at source:  Dispatch

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The County Board's budget committee clashed with County Executive Chris Abele on two fronts Thursday, calling for rejection of a long-delayed contract with a private vendor for janitorial services at the courthouse and refusing to pay part of a bill for a $125-an-hour consultant.

The board's finance committee also called for an audit of county procurement over the past year.

Supervisor David Cullen said botched work by Abele's administration on the janitorial contract, on hiring a vendor to run the Milwaukee County Transit System and other moves were behind his call for the audit.

The committee approved the audit request and indefinite delay on the janitorial pact on an 8-0 vote.

A decision on whether to conduct the audit is under consideration, said county Comptroller Scott Manske.

The county executive said he would welcome an audit of procurement and called the delay on the janitorial contract unfortunate.

"We wouldn't have recommended something if we didn't feel it was better value for the tax dollar," Abele said.

Supervisors have had great difficulty getting information on the janitorial services pact, which Abele's administration had recommended for CleanPower, a private firm, and other procurements, Cullen said.

CleanPower already cleans several county buildings, including the Coggs Human Services Center at 1220 W. Vliet St. It would get $3.4 million next year for expanded duties cleaning more than 4 million square feet of county office space, under the proposed contract.

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CADILLAC — Seventeen years ago, Larry Haines was hired as the janitor at the Cadillac Wexford Public Library.

He loved his job and was happy to work days after years of night shifts stocking store shelves.

Because he was also the library fix-it guy, it was natural that people asked him for help when computers started being added for public use.

Slowly, Haines became indispensable on the computers and spent less time cleaning bathrooms and mopping floors.

Now he’s the technology director, maintaining 70 computers and three servers for the main library and four branch libraries.

His boss, Cathy Tacoma, calls Haines a “visionary.”

More at source: Cadillac News

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 A 32-year-old junior scientist, identified as D. Babu, working at the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, died after he accidentally consumed toilet cleaner at his house in Rajendranagar.

Babu had got married in May this year and used to live with his wife. The scientist consumed the toilet cleaner on October 13 and was shifted to the hospital, where he died on Wednesday.

Babu, a native of Salem district in Tamil Nadu, had been living in Rajendranagar since 2009. A police case has been registered. 

More at source: Deccan Chronicle

Horror movies often use blood, gore and violence to shock and scare filmgoers.

However, filmmakers tend to ignore the most frightening element: Cleaning up all the cartilage, plasma and guts that get splattered during the mayhem.

Aftermath, a company that specializes in trauma cleaning and biohazard removal, is adding a bit of realism to horror films with an infographic that explains what it would take to clean up the crime scenes in some of the most classic gore films in history.

More at source: Huffington Post

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