NEWS NATIONWIDE BUYS
NEW HEADQUARTERS Nationwide Window Cleaning, the UK’s largest window, gutter and high level cleaning business, has bought its own three-storey, 800 sq m. new office block at Colton Mill Office Park, Leeds.
Based only 20 miles from its home for the last three years, the new site doubles its previous floor space and provides a range of additional facilities and anticipated growth requirements for the next 10 years.
The building has been finished to a very high specification with glass partitioned offices to provide a mixture of open plan and cellular accommodation, meeting rooms and rest areas.
FEMALE EMPLOYEES MOST SUSPICIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO
OFFICE HYGIENE To coincide with Global Hand Washing Day and to promote the importance of hand hygiene amongst office workers, Initial Washroom Hygiene has unveiled research into how both men and women perceive the opposite sex’s personal hygiene habits. The report, commissioned by Initial and in conjunction with Harris Interactive, found that British women are far less trusting of their male counterparts’ personal hygiene habits in the workplace.
Exactly half of UK women believe that their male colleagues never wash their hands in the office. On the flipside, British men were more generous in their opinion towards women, with a whopping 96% trusting that their female colleagues always washed their hands. Based on research released earlier this year, women are right to be more suspicious of men, after anonymous monitoring of 100,000 people across Europe by Initial Washroom Hygiene found that, in fact, only 38% of men and 60% of women wash their hands after going to the
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Nationwide Director Eugene Boyle said: “The office purchase gives the business a firm financial base. Our staff love the new working environment. The quality of finish makes this one of the best workplaces in the area for our 39 head office staff, plus visiting regional personnel and clients.
“We have excellent training facilities and plenty of large glass areas for trainees to practice on. There are good amenities on site for staff and visitors – a supermarket, restaurants, a medical centre, a crèche and a hotel. It’s a fabulous package and we are delighted to have bought it.”
Easy to find, Colton Mill is close to the UK motorway network with connections to the A1, M62 and junction 46 of the M1.
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toilet. This significantly increases the risk of cross-contamination and illness in the workplace.
The potential risk of spreading germs via the traditional handshake is high, especially as one in four office workers admit they don't wash their hands after using the washroom. Considering 80% of diseases are transmissible through touch, and 60% of employee illness is believed to be contracted from dirty office equipment, it’s essential that office workers wash their hands correctly to reduce the risk of illness both for themselves and for their co-workers.
Dr Peter Barratt from Initial Washroom Hygiene, commented: “What these findings particularly highlight is that we all need to be more responsible when it comes to hand hygiene. Washing your hands thoroughly for
20-30 seconds remains the simplest and most effective way to reduce the spread of infection, and employers need to take the lead to ensure all their employees wash their hands thoroughly after every washroom visit, whether they are male or female. Employers should also encourage their workers to take time to fully recover from an illness as this will help stop its transmission within the office.
“By providing the best facilities available, such as good quality soap from dispensers, sanitising gels and hand drying equipment, and encouraging good and consistent hand washing behaviour it shouldn’t be necessary to change the way co-workers greet each other, and employers can ensure that their staff retain full confidence in each other’s hygiene, whilst reducing the risk of transmitting infections.”
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