Study Shows School Cleanliness Affects Learning
Source: Alan S. Bigger and Jeff Campbell, APPA, 2008 (subscription required) From the abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a direct corrrelation between cleanliness and the...
View ArticleQuick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools
Source: Stephen P. Ashkin and Rochelle Davis, Healthy Schools Campaign, 2008 (free registration required) From the press release: Healthy Schools Campaign (HSC) is pleased to announce the release of...
View ArticleMaking the Connections, Contract Cleaning and Infection Control
Source: Steve Davies, Senior Research Fellow Cardiff School of Social Sciences, April 17, 2009 This report reviews some of the evidence for two sets of connections: that between environmental cleaning...
View ArticleThe Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Environmental Claims in Consumer Markets
Source: TerraChoice, April 2009 - A new sin has emerged 98% of products committed at least one of the Sins of Greenwashing. Greenwashing is so rampant that a Seventh Sin has emerged. The Sin of...
View ArticleCharacterization Of Occupational Exposures To Cleaning Products Used For...
Source: Anila Bello, Margaret M Quinn, Melissa J Perry, Donald K Milton, Environmental Health, 2009 From the abstract: In recent years, cleaning has been identified as an occupational risk because of...
View ArticleUnionization in the Cleaning Industry
Source: Jon Barton, Services, Vol. 30 no. 6, November/December 2010 Across the Country, more and more office building owners are selecting responsible cleaning contractors who pay decent wages and...
View ArticleDistrict outsources to the machines
Source: Cleaning and Maintenance Management Online, August 9, 2011 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA — The Upper Merion Area School District recently acquired a second Gen X – Duo Bot robotic floor scrubber from...
View ArticleCleaning and asthma characteristics in women
Source: Orianne Dumas, Valérie Siroux, Frédéric Luu, Rachel Nadif, Jan-Paul Zock, Francine Kauffmann and Nicole Le Moual, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 57 Issue 3, March 2014...
View Article‘Flexibility’ Hits University of Wisconsin Custodians
Source: Jason Lee, Labor Notes, August 14, 2014 Glenn Khalar is ex-military, a vet. He’s worked at the University of Wisconsin-Superior for 16 years. He was raised in the area, and brought up his own...
View ArticleFM Pulse and Salary Survey
Source: Facilities Management, September 2014 Part 1: How Facility Managers Handle Increasing Workload, Shrinking Budget, Staff Part 2: In-house Or Outsource? Facility Departments Evaluate Staffing...
View ArticleAcute symptoms associated with chemical exposures and safe work practices...
Source: Soo-Jeong Lee, Bora Nam, Robert Harrison and OiSaeng Hong, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Early View, September 15, 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: Background:...
View ArticleRobot Cleans Hospital Rooms With UV Light
Source: Holly Lambert, Futurity, April 14, 2015 A robot that uses ultraviolet light can kill up to 70 percent of bacteria in hospital rooms in just 12 minutes. The device—which bears a striking...
View ArticleStaffing Your School’s Cleaning Team
Source: Kylie Jane Wakefield, Cleaning & Maintenance Management, May 5, 2015 Best practices for hiring new custodial team members in education facilities
View ArticleTraditional and environmentally preferable cleaning product exposure and...
Source: Jennifer L. Garza, Jennifer M. Cavallari, Sara Wakai, Paula Schenck, Nancy Simcox, Tim Morse, John D. Meyer and Martin Cherniack, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Early View, Article...
View ArticleCharacterization of Urinary Phthalate Metabolites Among Custodians
Source: Jennifer M. Cavallari, Nancy J. Simcox, Sara Wakai, Chensheng Lu, Jennifer L. Garza, and Martin Cherniack, Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Volume 59, Issue 8, October 2015 (subscription...
View ArticleRace to the Bottom: How Low-Road Subcontracting Affects Working Conditions in...
Source: Sara Hinkley, Annette Bernhardt and Sarah Thomason, University of California – Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education, March 8, 2016 From the press release: The increased...
View ArticleA Plan is Emerging to Fight “Rape on the Night Shift”
Source: Christina Jewett, Frontline and Reveal, March 9, 2016 Female janitors working alone at night have been particularly vulnerable to sexual assault and reluctant to report it. Now, California...
View ArticleTech’s Invisible Workers
Source: Silicon Valley Rising, March 2016 Low wage workers do their part to make Silicon Valley the most prosperous region in the world, yet they struggle every day to feed their families, pay their...
View ArticleHospital-Acquired Infections: Stop Preventable Deaths
Source: Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), 2017 From the summary: With provincial funding for Ontario hospital services falling for years, understaffing...
View Article“They Don’t Understand the Value of Life” An Interview with Clarence Jones
Source: Meagan Day, Jacobin, December 14, 2018 Clarence Jones was homeless, despite being employed as a janitor for a multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical company. He thought his situation was his fault....
View ArticleCan Dirty Work be Satisfying? A Mixed Method Study of Workers Doing Dirty Jobs
Source: Stephen Deery, Deanna Kolar, Janet Walsh, Work, Employment and Society, Volume 33 Issue 4, August 2019 (subscription required) From the abstract: It has been argued in this journal that...
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