At Chemical Solutions we re-use as much packaging as possible. Our operations team have worked hard on making sure we have a Good Practise approach to material we can’t use, some of that is empty packaging collected from customers and other packaging that distributors return to us. Astron Plastics take packaging damaged or … [Read more...]

Hospitality Operators Confess To Wasting Money Something we are often going on about is false economy through the use of cheap cleaning products. With operating margins internationally being squeezed to breaking point, operators are looking for absolute value from every dollar spent servicing and maintaining their … [Read more...]

H&S Compliance The Health and Safety Reform Bill introduces the concept of a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking, known as a PCBU. We all have a duty of care to actively engage in health and safety matters. Not just private businesses, but all government departments (for example Schools come under Primary Duty of … [Read more...]

The Food Act 2014 comes into force on 1st March 2016 with a new approach to managing food safety. Everyone working in the food industry has a responsibility to ensure that the food we buy is safe and suitable for eating. The Act promotes food safety by focussing on the process in which food is produced and not the premises it … [Read more...]

The Average worker comes into contact with more than 10 MILLION disease-causing bacteria lurking on their keyboard, phone and mouse. The Facts: More than 10 million bacteria lurk on the average office desk with 7,500 organisms hidden in your keyboard Unhygienic working conditions are a 'key contributor' to millions of … [Read more...]

This incident is a scary reminder of the importance of storing cleaning chemicals in a safe location in the correct container with the correct labelling. As highlighted in this Spanish tragedy, it is easy to mistake a cleaning chemical for a beverage if it is decantered into a drink/wine bottle then accidentally stored in the … [Read more...]

How often do you use wet wipes? A study by Cardiff University found that the cleaning tissues are helping to spread deadly superbugs in NHS wards. Seven commercially available wipes were tested on the most common hospital infections. In "every instance", the wipes actually spread potentially deadly infections from one … [Read more...]

Worksafe NZ warns as company fined A waterproofing company has been fined $33,750 and ordered to pay reparation of $2,500 after one of its employees was overcome by toxic fumes. The worker was applying a bitumen-based product to the inside of a grain silo at an egg farm near Hastings at the time of the incident in April last … [Read more...]

Get your property looking spic n' span this summer with Kemsol's fantastic range of out door products! … [Read more...]

Plastic recycling is becoming more and more of a factor in our industry and many others, as part of what we can be doing from a sustainability standpoint to play our part in reducing the amount of plastic ending up in our oceans. Having a cradle to cradle recycling program can also assist to give you the edge commercially and a … [Read more...]