Clean Atlantic.  August 2007
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ON THE COVER: A Bacterial Solution to Depression
By NICOLE KENNY, Virox Technologies Inc.
A chance observation by a research team at Bristol University, published in Neuroscience, led to speculation that a particular sort of bacterium might alleviate clinical depression.  Oncologist Dr. Mary O’Brien, at Royal Marsden Hospital in London, was trying out an experimental treatment for lung cancer that involved inoculating patients with Mycobacterium vaccae. This is a harmless relative of the bugs that cause tuberculosis and leprosy that had been killed before injection. When Dr. O’Brien gave the inoculation, she observed not only fewer symptoms of the cancer, but also an improvement in her patients’ emotional health, vitality and general cognitive function. Read more...

 Purchasing Practices are Forcing Contractor Changes
We have seen a significant number of national procurement contracts for janitorial services in Canada in the past few years, particularly in the public sector market. Price is always important, but has not been the major component of the decision in the private sector where much of the purchase decision is based on the proposal itself and the value it brings in areas such as quality programs, management and training. The public sector has also gone into national or regional contractors, and most of these are driven by a desire for quality first and price second. The very nature of some of these contracts, however, makes prices the deciding factor when everything else looks acceptable. The cleaning business is often sold on presentation as it is an intangible making the decision tougher for the purchaser.  Read more...

Canadian Government to Ban or Restrict Toxic Chemicals
On Dec. 8, 2006, the Canadian government announced a strategy to clean up dangerous chemicals in the environment. A component of the strategy was the phase-out of “legacy chemicals” – those substances that don’t dissipate or that have detrimental chronic health impacts. The list of chemicals facing regulation or outright banning includes many proven harmful to animals and suspected to be harmful to human health, includes a chemical commonly used in cleaners and disinfectants.  Read more...

Setting the Standard
New management standard set for the cleaning industry
It has always been relatively easy to start a cleaning business. The tools and equipment are relatively cheap and many companies have been started on a shoe-string. While it is easy to get started, managing a cleaning operation is extremely challenging and many successful small operations run into difficulties as they expand their operations. Management skills and operating standards are what separate the successful service providers from those destined for trouble. The same difficulties are faced by in-house operations that grow as the parent body grows. While technical training and standards abound in our industry what has been lacking is a management standard that will aid in a developing well-run service operation and enhance the perception of the cleaning industry in the eyes of clients and building operators. This shortcoming has now been addressed.  Read more...

Chaper Report
The Atlantic Chapter of the Canadian Sanitation Supply Association (CSSA) is pleased to be hosting the Clean Atlantic 2007 Trade Show at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax, NS, on Sep. 27, 2007.  The show is designed to give executive housekeepers, purchasers, building service contractors, property management companies and others the chance to see the latest innovations and trends in the cleaning industry without incurring the expense in funds or time of traveling to Montreal, Toronto or U.S. destinations. Read more...

Clean Atlantic
The Canadian Sanitation Supply Association invites you to attend a trade show and seminar program dedicated to the professionals who help keep Atlantic Canada clean. With exhibitors from across Canada and the U.S. the show will feature the latest products and systems that have been developed in response to the challenges you face today.  Read more...

Clean Atlantic Seminar Program
It’s Not Clean If It’s Not Green…
Presented by Scot Case, Terrachoice Environmental Marketing Read more...  

Green Paper Products
When it comes to Green cleaning, most building service contractors (BSCs) are focused on the necessary environmentally preferable cleaning chemicals, tools and equipment. However, they should not forget about the impact that the paper products they provide for their customers and use in cleaning has on our planet. In the past 40 years, the world consumption of paper has grown nearly 400 per cent. This is one reason that billions of trees are cut down each year around the globe. We use paper in many more forms than we realize. Other than for obvious things such as newspapers, magazines and writing material, paper is used in packaging, stereo speakers, home insulation, inserts for shoes and many more items. In the cleaning industry, paper is most commonly used for toilet tissue, paper towels, cups as well as for the cleaning itself.  Read more...

An Era of Consequences
In 1938 Winston Churchill was growing inpatient with the British political system and the course of discussions with Nazi Germany. If an effort to warn the British people of the impending danger of the Nazi’s, Churchill states this famous quote: “The era of procrastination of half measures of soothing and baffling expedients is over and is being replaced with an era of consequences.”  Read more...

Clean Get Away
Microfibre cleaning products save time, money and your back
By Carly Peters
Everyone has seen those investigative TV reports where they swab public surfaces for bacteria and other repulsive particles. The results are usually pretty horrifying. Germs and other harmful microbes are left behind when inadequate cleaning products and materials are used, and in settings such as schools and hospitals, it is imperative to have cleanliness. Microfibre cloths and mops not only optimize cleaning, but also save operators time, and reduce costs and waste.  Read more...

MRSA in Healthcare Settings
Methicillin-resistant (itals)Staphylococcus aureus(enditals)(MRSA) has been featured in the news and on television programs a great deal recently. This type of bacteria causes “staph” infections that are resistant to treatment with usual antibiotics. MRSA occurs most frequently among patients who undergo invasive medical procedures or who have weakened immune systems and are being treated in hospitals and healthcare facilities such as nursing homes and dialysis centres. MRSA in healthcare settings commonly causes serious and potentially life threatening infections, such as bloodstream infections, surgical site infections or pneumonia.  Read more...
 

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