With virtually every industry competing fiercely for skilled staff, outdoor FM is being particularly hard hit as experienced staff retire, access to overseas workers dries up and young people staying in education longer struggle to identify with careers in grounds care. For many businesses, these challenges have reached a tipping point: At one of our customers – a large further education college, the head groundsman – a veteran of forty years – had been struggling to recruit an understudy and to find staff living locally. As winter came around, these pressures had started to bite. Where previously the college’s estates team had been handling snow clearing and gritting in-house, the shortage of staff willing and able to be on site early in the day was leaving the campus and its hundreds of students dangerously exposed to the risks of trips and falls.

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Air-freshening specialist P-Wave has added two new urinal screen options to its market-leading ranges. “As experts in high-performance urinal screens, we are constantly looking for ways to ensure we offer products that meet the needs of our customers. As these needs evolve, so must our product range,” says P-Wave Sales and Marketing Manager Mark Wintle. “To complement the successful and popular Slant6, we have now added P-Wave 360 which delivers fewer change-outs as the powerful fragrance lasts for up to 60 days, plus the budget-friendly WCBasix.”

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B-Sure Installations has launched its B-Spoke Hygiene Boards service across the UK, following a successful trial to support customers during COVID. B-Spoke Hygiene Boards are designed specifically to meet all a customer’s hygiene needs in one and are pre-treated to be completely anti-microbial. Each board is installed on-site by B-Sure Installation engineers into workplace and public areas to provide prominent hygiene stations with clear and understandable instructions.

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Union Industries’ engineers acted almost as fast as its rapid roll industrial doors to ensure one of its Eiger freezer doors was fitted in record time at Total Foodservice Solutions. To ensure that productivity at the busy Yorkshire-based food service company wasn’t impacted, installation of the Eiger door was required to take place in a two-and-a-half-day window during a weekend. This is around half the time usually required to install the freezer door, however a team of three highly experienced Union Industries engineers, completed the job, which included the removal of an existing door, with time to spare.

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One of the UK’s leading PPE providers is warning businesses about a worrying rise in the number of employees taking their technical workwear home to be washed. phs Besafe, which offers specialist protective workwear and industrial laundry services, is seeing increasing reports of PPE being cleaned at home, in many cases along with family clothing and bedding. “Not only is this dangerous for the employee and others that live with them, but it also poses a major risk to the business who have a legal responsibility to ensure that the PPE provided is cared for, maintained and fit for purpose,” said Derek Brown, Managing Director of phs Besafe.

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phs Compliance based in Warrington has appointed a dedicated General Manager for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, as the leading compliance provider expands its electric vehicle division nationwide. Natalie Morden has been with the phs Group – which phs Compliance is part of – for the last eight years, working in the hygiene division as the Midlands Regional Sales Manager. She makes the move to the newly created role of General Manager EV Infrastructure for phs Compliance as the business continues to grow its electric vehicle charger installation services.

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Euro Car Parts is the UK’s leading distributor of car parts and accessories with over 200 sites across the country. With demand for its services higher than ever, the business has more than 500,000 branded totes in transit as it moves parts around the UK. However, its main warehouse in Tamworth found itself accumulating over 20,000 totes, all heavily contaminated with oil and excessive labelling making them unfit for use. As well as creating an eyesore outside the warehouse, the unusable totes were causing the business a financial challenge.

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Toe Guard delivers great value for money as well comfort and protection – affordably.   The timeless designs of Toe Guard safety shoes are complimented by their uncompromising focus on safety and wearer-wellbeing. The new Toe Guard Wild Mid WR is a waterproof, metal free S3 safety boot made of PU coated, rip-stop leather upper. It has a wide fit for optimal comfort plus a reinforced toe area for extra safety.

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Quality disposables manufacturer and supplier, Herald has launched a special printing service led by printing expert and catering disposables consultant, Leyla Koroglu. Herald has appointed a bespoke packaging manager to oversee and deliver its new printing service, which means customers can now order a wide range of customised products to support their marketing efforts. By offering a quick turnaround on printed food boxes and paper bags, alongside bespoke paper cups, Herald has already ensured a healthy flow of orders and is now promoting this dedicated service to new and existing customers as a sure-fire way to generate new business.

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The brains behind Kimberly-Clark Professional’s (KCP) new ground-breaking 100 percent bio-based and recyclable core plug is talented engineer Loic Wozny. Loic joined the global personal care team 11 years ago and after various positions at the organisation is now Lead Engineer for Hand Towel, Bath Tissue and Wiper in the B2B division of Kimberly-Clark across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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