Insights

5th August 2020

“COVID-19 secure” and “COVID risk assessments” are two of the most popular phrases in the facilities/health and safety lexicon currently, and for obvious and pressing reasons as we start or continue – depending on where your organisation is – to remobilise.

31st July 2020

As we are seeing increasing numbers of organisations go back to work, so also increasing for us is the numbers of questions and queries we are receiving from tenants as they return to their workplace, now little or unused for possibly four months.

22nd July 2020

The Government has called for Changing Places washrooms to be compulsory in all new buildings from 2021, with the backing of £30 million to help install these facilities in existing buildings.

21st July 2020

As with any respiratory disease, air quality inevitably becomes a consideration, the transmission of COVID-19 is no different.

17th July 2020

…said Patrick Vallance the Chief Scientific Officer to the Commons Science and Technology Committee this week. It is however becoming increasingly confusing to understand and interpret the information we are provided with. Lockdown in March 2020 was simple, starting up again is certainly less easy.

17th July 2020

So, after various countries around the world had already imposed the rule, including our Scottish neighbours, we are all going to need to wear face masks in enclosed public spaces such as shops from next Friday 24^th July 2020.

9th July 2020

Figures just published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) identify “111 Workers killed in 2019/20 (RIDDOR)”. Accepting it is still 111 people too many, compared to 147 fatalities in 2018/19 and 179 in 2008/09 it is a significant and welcome decrease in the number of avoidable deaths.

6th July 2020

“But ‘so and so’ has got one...” This phrase will be familiar to parents as their children try to justify the need for them either to spend money or relax control. It is designed to make us feel guilty that in not doing the same as ‘everyone else’, we are doing something wrong (and in the case of my daughter, purposely ruining her life!).

6th July 2020

Hot tubs are becoming a more popular feature in gardens in the UK, especially during the lockdown, and unwittingly are people aware of the dangerous they can pose?

3rd July 2020

It is that time of year again and the IWFM ‘Sustainability in FM survey’ is now live. Having been part of the survey team for a decade, it is also something I am heavily invested in.

2nd July 2020

As we have continued to re-mobilise back into our workplaces, the discussions, questions being asked, and information being sought by customers is dividing them into three relatively discrete groups:

22nd June 2020

One question we have been asked by a number of customers though is whether hot, cold or warm water is best for washing hands and what are the requirements around it?