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News

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• Restoration

  RIA and The Clean Trust Sign Memorandum of Understanding

  Organizations encourage spirit of cooperation between members.
• Healthcare

  CleanLink Presents: Incorporating Green Cleaning Into Healthcare Facilities

  On March 7, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, CleanLink airs the webcast, Incorporating Green Cleaning Into Healthcare Facilities, presented by Stephen Ashkin, President of The Ashkin Group and Executive Director of the Green Cleaning Network.
• Healthcare

  Switching to Steam? AVT Launches Resource Library on Steam Vapor

  Everett WA-based Advanced Vapor Technologies (AVT) - recognizing the surging interest in greener cleaning and infection prevention, and the media attention steam vapor devices have received In recent months - has announced the availability of a Resource Library on steam vapor technology to help readers better understand the science underpinning the efficacy of steam vapor sanitation systems.

• The Clean Trust Announces Consensus Bodies

  The Clean Trust (formerly the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification) announces the formation of two consensus bodies for the revisions of the"ANSI/IICRC S520 Standard and Reference Guide on Professional Mold Remediation" and the "IICRC S300 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Upholstery Cleaning".

• DOJ Takes Hard Line on ADA Pool Lift Guidance

  After months of pressure from AH&LA, the Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday issued an interpretation of when and how lifts need to be installed at swimming pools under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

• HFI Recommends Examining the Chemical-Free Cleaning Movement - Upcoming Expo in Florida

  Sometimes controversial, even radical, positions bring great truths to light.
• Universities

  Gene Woodard, Director of Building Services with the University of WA, Accepts Seat on HFI Advisory Board

  Woodard has been the Director of Custodial Services at the University of Washington, Seattle, for 25 years, and is currently the Director of Building Services, which includes Custodial Services and Recycling and Solid Waste programs.
• Healthcare

  Kumkum M. Dilwali, MS, LEED-AP, Past Senior Director of the Green Guide for Health Care™ Joins HFI Advisory Board

  Her past strategic involvement with the Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) will help environmental services staff and other facility professionals understand how to make significant progress on the healthy and greener environments continuum.
• Infection Prevention

  Sodexo Chooses Xenex Room Disinfection System

  Pulsed xenon ultraviolet light destroys viruses, bacteria and bacterial spores in the patient environment without contact or chemicals.
• Healthcare

  Anna Gilmore Hall Joins The Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI) Advisory Board

  Ms. Gilmore Hall, RN, MS, CAE is the Executive Director of Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading membership organization for institutions in the healthcare community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices.
• Schools

  John Gayetsky Joins The Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI) Advisory Board

  John Gayetsky has joined The Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI) Advisory Board. Gayetsky is the Environmental Management Specialist for the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO), providing consultative, training, and technical support services to school districts across the U.S.
• Carpet

  CRI and HFI Form Healthy Carpet Workgroup

  Promoting discussion of asthma, allergies, and the role of carpet selection and care.
• Cleaning Science

  CIRI Announces Call for Papers for Its Fall Cleaning Science Symposium

  The Cleaning Industry Research Institute International (CIRI) is pleased to announce its call for topics, proposals and papers to be considered for its science and technology symposium, “Cleaning Effectiveness and the Science of Antimicrobials & Disinfectants.”
• CIMS

  HFI Backs Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) and CIMS-Green Building (GB) Program

  The Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI) has announced its support of the ISSA Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) and CIMS-Green Building (GB) program as a means to help enhance the health of indoor environments.

• IEHA and HFI Announce Educational Partnership

  The International Executive Housekeepers Association and Healthy Facilities Institute join forces to promote the role of cleaning professionals in creating healthy indoor environments.

• The Ashkin Group Selected to Be Green Cleaning Resource for The Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI)

  The Ashkin Group becomes the sole provider of green cleaning information for The Healthy Facilities Institute. Will Provide Original Info on Green and Sustainability Issues