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To help its hospital partners combat HAIs, ARAMARK Healthcare announces it has collaborated with Ecolab to introduce OxyCide™ Daily Disinfectant Cleaner, an EPA-registered non-bleach cleaning agent in a concentrate that is gentle on surfaces but effective on germs such as Clostridium difficile.
“We work very hard to offer our hospital partners innovative solutions to support their infection prevention strategies,” says Mike Leone, president of ARAMARK Healthcare. “Leveraging our scale in collaboration with our suppliers to develop cleaning solutions such as OxyCide, is one of the ways we are able to add value to hospitals through our environmental service programs.”
OxyCide is an EPA-registered disinfectant, virucide, sporicide, deodorizer and one-step cleaner. ARAMARK Healthcare worked with Ecolab to test and develop the product for daily hospital use. OxyCide kills Clostridium difficile in 3 minutes and other organisms in 5 minutes or less; yet has superior material compatibility compared to bleach-based cleaners on hospital surfaces such as diagnostic equipment, stainless steel and fabrics.
ARAMARK Healthcare is using OxyCide as its recommended daily disinfectant, pairing it with its processes and hospital cleaning technologies to enhance its environmental service programs and deliver better patient outcomes.
Source: ARAMARK Healthcare
If you want to work at Homejoy, a rapidly growing tech startup that connects independent home cleaners to customers, you're going to have to roll up your sleeves and get dirty. The company has every employee -- from customer service reps to engineers -- in its San Francisco headquarters clean a house at least once as part of their training. This includes the CEO and co-founder Adora Cheung, who cleaned houses alongside cleaners for the first few months after she and her brother Aaron started Homejoy in 2012.
Before that, she spent a month cleaning for a national cleaning chain so she could better understand the needs of cleaners as well as customers.
"We didn't know how cleaners work so we figured out that the best way to learn was to become cleaners ourselves," Cheung said.
Homejoy CEO Adora Cheung.
The Cheung siblings, graduates of startup accelerator Y Combinator, raised $1.7 million from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Resolute.VC, and Max Levchin to start Homejoy in the San Francisco area. The service has grown quickly, launching in 30 more cities within the last eight months. Its simultaneous launches in Saint Louis and Orlando, Fla., on Friday mark its latest milestone.
All this because Cheung's brother wanted to hire someone to clean his apartment but couldn't find a convenient and safe way to connect with an affordable cleaner online. Homejoy's cleaners work for a set price of $20 an hour. One of Homejoy's selling points is that it says independent cleaners -- who are operating outside of a chain -- can earn more than they typically would, and customers pay less than they would for a chain but get a cleaner who's been prescreened and tested by Homejoy.
Customers use Homejoy's desktop and mobile site to order a cleaner, choosing which rooms they want cleaned, and can pay extra for certain tasks like laundry, windows, or an oven cleaning. Then they choose a time and pay by credit card, and the cleaners come with profiles and ratings. Cleaners then receive their assignments via an application from Homejoy.
The company isn't disclosing any metrics such as the number of users or revenue, but when it celebrated its one-year birthday in July, it said it had more than 500 cleaners in its system. That number is now in the "thousands," according to Marlo Struve, the company's director of communications.
Exec says that it’s dropping prices for its home cleaning service in all nine markets by 25 percent.
Founder and CEO Justin Kan told me that customers will still get a fixed quote for the entire cleaning, but the change effectively lowers Exec’s prices to $22 per hour per cleaner. (Among other things, that makes Exec more competitive with the Homejoy, which charges $20 an hour.) He also said that gross bookings for the service have been growing by an average of 28 percent per month for the past four months.
“After surveying users and getting feedback for the past couple months, one of the biggest pieces of feedback we’ve gotten was that we could be providing more value, and our customers would use us more if we were priced lower,” Kan told me via email.
Kan added that Exec can lower its prices significantly because it’s eliminating “our deeper cleaning options” (such as cleaning walls) from the basic service, and then charging for them on an a la carte basis.
More at source: Tech Crunch
Staging a home involves preparing a home for sale by making it more attractive to buyers by eliminating clutter and arranging furniture and accessories. But nothing is more important than the cleanliness of the home. By partnering with local real estate agents, American House Cleaning plays an important role in ensuring that homes are market ready.
If a home is dirty, prospective buyers may wonder if there are more serious maintenance issues that they don’t know about. Also, if the home is empty, it is even more crucial that it is clean. Dusty floors, dirty windows, and grime on kitchen and sink countertops are more visible when there is nothing else to distract the eye.
More at source: PRWEB
CenturyVallen to host Safety Week for supporters of safe workplaces
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Sept. 18, 2013 /CNW/ - Many of us have never used a fire extinguisher and likely wouldn't know how to if we tried. As part of its nationwide Safety Week events, CenturyVallen is bringing accident prevention and awareness to Mississauga to demonstrate just how to do it. The event will be held on Wednesday September 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at CenturyVallen's Mississauga branch located at 6710 Maritz Drive.
Attendees can enjoy a traditional-style barbecue followed by safety demonstrations and displays. Learn about respirator fit testing, witness a firefighting simulator, guided fire extinguisher use, fall arrest training and demonstration and learn about breathing apparatus usage and testing. The Mississauga Fire Department will also be there presenting information on fire protection.
"The idea for CenturyVallen's Safety Week came about because of ongoing workplace accidents and fatalities that seriously affect so many workers and their families," said Tom Taylor, regional director, Eastern Canada, CenturyVallen. "We hope that by showing people how to be safer at their workplaces, they can actually save lives. Nothing is more important to us than that."
As an added bonus, CenturyVallen will also be offering special pricing on domestic fire extinguishers and first aid kits on the day of the event.
CenturyVallen is a national distributor of safety, industrial and janitorial supplies and technical services. We provide custom solutions that enhance your companies productivity through safety and compliance.
To learn more about Safety Week or about how you can stay safe in the workplace, visit www.centuryvallen.com.
SOURCE CenturyVallen
Contact: Tom Taylor Regional Director Eastern Canada CenturyVallen 780-905-565-1686 ext: 100 tom.taylor@sonepar.ca
Reliable Office Cleaning is now offering a 15 percent discount to new customers on their first office cleanings. As difficult as it can be to find good help in keeping the environments that you work and live in clean, it is well worth it to give Reliable Office Cleaning a try, especially when others have not lived up to expectations.
Reliable Office Cleaning provides services for all New York office cleaning needs. Almost no job is too large for Reliable Office Cleaning to handle, including dusting, sweeping, washing and stripping floors, garbage removal, cleaning bathrooms and keeping individual workstations tidy, among other duties essential to maintaining a clean and healthful workspace.
Many offices have a great many work stations, computer tables and desks that ought to be maintained to make the office look its very best and to provide a neat environment in which employees can produce his or her best work. Not only does Reliable Office Cleaning clean and maintain standard business offices, they also perform spotless janitorial duties in doctors’ and dentists’ offices, architectural firms and other professional workspaces.
More at source: PRWeb
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September 17, 2013 - Premium Franchise Brands, the holding company of Maid Right Franchising and Jan-Pro International, announced today that Maid Right Residential Cleaning Franchises have begun offering EnviroShield Disinfectant Cleaning in homes.
EnviroShield is an exclusive Maid RightBranded Disinfecting System, in which the disinfectant surrounds and clings to surfaces to kill harmful bacteria, including MRSA. The disinfecting agent used in the system meets the required Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards and contains no harmful effects. Being environmentally safe, the disinfectant requires no special handling or ventilation. The EnviroShield System achieves 100% disinfection coverage due to the electrically charged spray droplets, which have a force attraction of 75 times that of gravity and cover even hidden areas.
“EnviroShield uses the most advanced technology available today, combining electrostatically charged particles with the safest and most effective disinfectant, to eliminate harmful microbes such as MRSA and e-Coli in your home,” said Dennis Thompson, Chief Operating Officer of Jan-Pro. “This enables Maid Right to spray kitchen countertops, bathrooms, computer keyboards, children’s toys, and all other areas of your home to provide a microbe-free environment. It even kills mold and eliminates odors at the source.”
The EnviroShield Disinfecting System was first introduced by Maid Right’s sister company Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning in 2010.
More at source: Franchising.
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