Finalists for awards in Rome announced

European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2017 shortlist released

The finalists in the European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2017 have been announced. The awards recognise standards of excellence in the professional cleaning sector Europe-wide and the winners will be announced at a gala dinner at the Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel in Rome on 9 November.

Service providers, manufacturers and distributors in the sector submitted over 140 entries.

The judges have now selected their finalists in the 10 categories:

 1) Best use of technology by contractors in their cleaning programmes. Sponsored by Diversey Care

• BeSense and CSU
• How Bouygues Energies & Services use SmartView Technology to Manage the Efficiency of Cleaning Contracts
• How UVC Xenon light (XENEX GERM-ZAPPING ROBOTS® Disinfection System), is used by CLECE in Hospitals to improve Cleaning Services Quality
• Julius Rutherfoord & Co
• University of Wolverhampton and SmartTask

2) Commitment to and investment in training. Sponsored by Greenspeed

• Birkin Services
• Cleaning Dry System
• Julius Rutherfoord & Co
• “Markas Academy” Project

3) Excellence in client/contractor partnerships.

• Birkin Services
• FBD and Derrycourt Cleaning Specialists
• Julius Rutherfoord & Co
• Youngflex: co creation by Albeda College and Gom Schoonhouden

4) Distributors – excellence in added value initiatives. Sponsored by Lucart

• Eko Iniciativa by Valtex
• ICE Smartcall
• Kenter
• WE Italia SRL 

5) Sustainability – best practice in implementing principles throughout the business. Sponsored by Werner & Mertz

• City of Ghent: Sustainable cleaning from A to Z
• Going full circle – Greenspeed’s circular cleaning approach
• Markas best practice for sustainability: the Montichiari Hospital project
• Ökologische Gebäudereinigung, Piepenbrock

6) Workforce – excellence in employee relationships, diversity & inclusion, rewards programmes, etc

• Cleanology puts health, safety and wellbeing for its workforce at the top of its agenda
• Julius Rutherfoord & Co
• “Markas Academy” Project
• Maximum Impact, Breedweer Facilitaire Diensten

7) Best initiative raising the profile and perception of the professional cleaning sector – locally or on a wider level

• Partnership and Social Awareness, Tenterden Twilight Commercial Cleaning
• Awareness raising project: the hygiene hands game for children, the infection prevention starts from the beginning!
• LIFE (Labour Intensive Facility Event) – ANIP Road Show
• How BESA promotes the importance of the professional cleaning sector through its ventilation hygiene training and industry standard TR19

 8) Groundbreaking technological innovation of the year. Sponsored by ISSA/INTERCLEAN

• BeSense, CSU
• Biorg
• Malish Sonic Scrub
• Tork PeakServe® Continuous® Hand Towel Dispensing System, Essity

9) Inspirational leader of the year. Sponsored by Truvox International

• Avril McCarthy, Derrycourt Cleaning Specialists
• Jan-Hein Hemke, Facilicom UK
• Lorenzo Mattioli, ANIP
• Paul Ashton, Birkin Services

10) Greatest individual contribution to driving up standards of excellence within a cleaning operation

• Anna Sangaletti, Markas
• Avril McCarthy, Derrycourt Cleaning Specialists
• Soo Bartholomew, Birkin Services

The final award of the evening is the Lifetime achievement award sponsored by Ceris Burns International. The winner of this prestigious award is selected by the judging panel and is not open to public nomination.

The awards, now in their second year, were launched by the European Cleaning Journal and are organised by EMG. Diversey Care is the event partner and Lucart is the silver sponsor for the 2017 awards. Other sponsors include Afidamp, Brightwell Dispensers, Nilfisk and Magris.

For further information contact awards@europeancleaningjournal.com

You can also follow the awards on Twitter @ECH_Awards and #ECHAwards17.