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New Cleaning Guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus
Cleaning guidelines to make your business COVIDSafe We're so proud to announce that the Victorian Department Health (DHHS) Coronavirus (COVID-19) cleaning guidelines
Uber driver by day, cleaner by night
Watch Bridget Gardner present at Life Saving Victoria’s 2020 Aquatic Industry Summit: Uber driver by day, cleaner by night This powerful talk
4 ways to ensure physical distancing while cleaning
Safe Work Australia (SWA) requires businesses to ensure their staff stay physically distant from each other by 1.5 meters, with 4 meters
Can you really protect a building surface for 30 days?
Lately I have been inundated with questions about disinfectant sprays and surface films that offer “residual" or "lasting protection”. I’ve seen plenty
How to leave the air as clean as the surface
What does a ‘clean and healthy’ indoor environment mean to you? Yes, hygienically clean and spotless surfaces are important, but healthy bodies
How to offer Preventative and Decontamination cleaning services for COVID-19
If you are still not sure how to offer Preventative and Decontamination cleaning services for COVID-19, it’s not too late. You haven't
How choosing the right cleaning product can help your disinfectant to kill coronavirus
We talk a lot of about the importance of cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces to prevent the spread of COVID-19. While it’s
New Guide to Cleaning for COVID-19 plus 5 Templates
HPC Solutions director, Bridget Gardner, has produced a comprehensive guide called The Guide to Cleaning for COVID-19. This 46 page reference guide
This is how you can tell which disinfectants are effective against Coronavirus (COVID 19)
How do you know which disinfectants can kill the coronavirus? Which disinfectants should you use in commercial non-healthcare buildings? This article is
2020 Inclean Leaders Forum with High Performance Cleaning (HPC) Solutions
Inclean Leaders Forum with Bridget Gardner, Director of HPC Solutions How was 2019 for HPC Solutions? What were the highlights? What were
How to clean well and protect our health from germs
Cleaning Well for Health 2020 certainly has started off dramatically! Unprecedented bushfires in Australia and now this new Coronavirus pandemic - Covid
Exciting news! Fresh Green Clean is rebranding as HPC Solutions
We are very excited to announce that today, after the 13 years as Fresh Green Clean Pty Ltd, we are proudly launching
Social sustainability – sounds nice, but how does it work in reality?
The final topic in this series exploring the hottest sustainable cleaning trends for 2019 is social sustainability. Covering diverse issues from human rights
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – a road map for innovation and future success
In part 4 of this series, Bridget Gardner explains why the UN's Global Goals for Sustainable Development, developed back in 2015, are
How a net-zero emission future could solve the climate crisis and be good for the cleaning industry
This article continued my series of the five hottest sustainability topics for 2019 and their impact on the cleaning industry. Article #3
The Plastic Pollution Problem
The Plastic Pollution Problem and what the cleaning industry can do about it This is the second of five articles I wrote
How the Recycling Crisis could affect the Cleaning Industry
The recycling crisis story This article is the first of five I wrote for Inclean Magaazine, about the five hottest sustainability trends
Introducing CAL – The Cleaning Activity Levels model
A simpler model for specifying and measuring cleaning standards With the issue of unrealistic productivity rates and insufficient hours allowed for cleaning
Preventing workplace absenteeism with validated cleaning
For 90 years we have relied on antibiotics and disinfectants to kill harmful bacteria and viruses. But with the rise of
What have Orangutans got to do with cleaning?
The issue of illegal burning and deforestation to produce palm oil, is often in the media. But did you know those images
The hidden cost of scented cleaning products
A carpet cleaning company was recently engaged to clean the carpets and upholstery of a small office. Next morning the stains were
Green Cleaning Management for Green Star – Performance, WELL and NABERS ratings
So, you’ve just been asked to explain how well your cleaning services and products comply with Green Star-Performance, WELL Building and NABERs
How to use Big Data to make cleaning more sustainable
3 areas of facility cleaning services you can ‘digitise’ for sustainability Innovations in digitisation, automation and data analytics, are radically changing the
Bad procurement costs more than Sustainable Procurement.
In 2017 a new standard for Sustainable Procurement, ISO 20400, was released to guide better procurement of goods and services. What do you