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CIMSPA leisure facility cleaning webinar Q&A
Christian Harris was asked to assist CIMSPA in a webinar on leisure facility cleaning. Below are the top ten questions that were asked in advance, and Christian’s answers. The government specifically mentioned harder breathing, and the volume and frequency of surfaces being touched as reasons that facilities haven’t yet been able to open. Why…
Read MoreJames Harvey of BLM on the Slip Safety Show
James Harvey of BLM joins Christian Harris on the Slip Safety Show to discuss the claims landscape past, present and future We crammed in a lot of useful content, including: What have been the most common claims James’ clients have faced, both in Public Liability and Employer’s Liability cases? How has this changed over…
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Slip Safety Show with Mike Boxall
How do you know how effective your cleaning, waste management or other FM service (whether outsourced or delivered in-house) truly is? My guest on this episode of the Slip Safety Show can benchmark this for you. Mike Boxall runs Sitemark. It exists to benchmark performance versus best-practice to enable clients to: Minimise costs Demonstrate…
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Ensuring your building is clean and safe after lockdown – a webinar with OpenSensors and Slip Safety Services
Join Yodit Stanton, CEO & Founder at OpenSensors, and Christian Harris, Founder of Slip Safety Services, on 25th June at 4pm for a webinar to: – Understand what cleaning standards to achieve and maintain post COVID – Dispel inaccurate information around COVID cleaning – Explore how to test if your office building is truly clean…
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Webinar: meeting ukactive’s minimum standards on cleanliness & hygiene
Below is a recording of Christian Harris’ webinar from 17th June 2020 setting out how leisure facilities should ensure that they meet ukactive’s minimum requirements for cleaning & hygiene. Fit Together was published in June 2020 as the leisure sector’s industry guidance response to how to reopen safely. There are 6 main commitments, of…
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CHIMES Model: 3/6 – Individual
Clearly a slip accident cannot occur without a human being present. If we start at base principles. I think we would all agree that we can walk on slippery surfaces without slipping. If you were to think of an ice-skating rink, for example, and we lined up 100 people off the street and asked them…
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How to ensure a rigorous cleaning and disinfection regime throughout your gym or leisure facility
UK Active published its Fit Together campaign on 10th June 2020 with detailed guidance for the safe reopening of gyms and leisure facilities after the Coronavirus lockdown. Among its six minimum commitments for members to follow are “reducing the risk of viral transmission from surfaces and equipment”. To do this, it gives specifics, including…
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Slip Safety Services joins Fitness United
Fitness United is a collaboration of suppliers committed to supporting the fitness industry COVID-19 has changed the way people are able to exercise and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It’s had a significant impact on the fitness industry and created a challenging trading environment for many businesses. The Fitness United mission is to…
Read MoreHere’s why a £500 slip test can save you £100,000s of insurance claim costs
Slips are the biggest cause of accident, injury, insurance claims and cost in most sectors. The average claim costs £10,000 but claims of £100k+ are not uncommon. Using AXA Insurance’s data, where they spend £80m a year on slips, we can see that in the UK as a whole, over £1bn is spent annually on…
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Leisure Coronavirus Relaunch FAQs – should I replace my changing village floor cleaning chemical with a viricidal chemical?
In our regular conversations with leisure club operators, we are coming across many of the same questions. We are answering these in some detail in a series of articles. — The answer is really quite simple: unless the floor is clean, it doesn’t matter what chemical you put down to try to sanitise or disinfect,…
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