infection control
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Cleaning for health in the year 2020
Cleaning for health: This is the motto that the American Cleaning Institute has pounded out for several decades, practically since its foundation in 1926. This
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Cleaning vs. Disinfecting: Seeing the “bigger picture”
A.M.G. Medical's Melissa Balinsky explains the key differences in cleaning vs. disinfecting and how both practices can meet new standards.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Dozens more facilities achieve GBAC STAR™ accreditation
The Hyatt House WPG South in Winnipeg is among dozens of locations worldwide that have recently achieved GBAC STAR accreditation.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
New CCOHS tool kit helps workplaces customize COVID-19 health and safety
The CCOHS tool kit helps workplaces operate safely and prevent the spread of infection.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ISSA’s GBAC STAR accreditation success is a sign of a cleaner world
The GBAC STAR accreditation was only launched in spring but has already seen huge uptake from facilities around the world.
REMI Network
Scientists Recommend Drying with Paper Hand Towels
Drying your hands with paper hand towels is the most effective method for reducing the proliferation of bacteria among people.
REMI Network
Ontario allots new funding for child care operators
New funding is available for licensed child care and early years programs across Ontario to support enhanced cleaning and infection control.
REMI Network
HVAC systems and COVID-19: Q&A
There's prevailing uncertainty over potential exposure to the virus through building ventilation systems. How concerned should condo communities be?
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Tory urges apartment owners to make masks mandatory
Toronto Mayor John Tory is urging multi-residential building owners to make masks mandatory throughout all indoor common areas.
REMI Network
GBAC STAR accreditation to steer reopenings
The new GBAC STAR accreditation program is taking the complication and uncertainty out of reopening large Canadian commercial facilities.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Rigorous cleaning protocols now big safety priority
Cleaning has taken on a new meaning since the words coronavirus and COVID-19 became part of our daily language. But precisely how have cleaning protocols changed?
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ASHRAE to aid setup of temporary field hospitals
ASHRAE has forged an epidemic task force to volunteer expert guidance on the setup of temporary field hospitals in non-traditional health care venues, such as convention centres and arenas.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
COVID-19 preparedness tips for landlords
All businesses are impacted by the COVID-19 virus, but rental-housing providers play a critical role in the battle to mitigate the spread of this highly communicable disease.
CondoBusiness
COVID-19 and Condos
As the number of cases of COVID-19 increase across the country, Nancy Houle from Davidson Houle Allen discusses what this means for the condo industry.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ISSA standard instructs school cleaning practices
The goal of the standard is to provide schools with a tool that will help them measure and monitor the effectiveness of the cleaning processes.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ASHRAE opens COVID-19 technical guidance portal
Health care intake areas and waiting rooms, shelters and other facilities where crowds may assemble are identified as vulnerable occupancies where a heighten level of controls is recommended.
REMI Network
Input needed on new infection control standard
The IICRC is developing a new standard for infection control during professional cleaning and maintenance of commercial buildings.
