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  TASKI GO2 Launches in the UK This August – Professional Cleaning at an Incredible Price  20th July 2026 | By Yewan Armstrong | Cleaning Tips , Environmental Health , Hygiene , Sustainability Click here to pre-order The New TASKI GO2 Vacuum Cleaner Arrives This August – Professional Cleaning Performance at an Unbeatable Price A New Generation of Commercial Vacuum Cleaning from TASKI The wait is almost over. This August 2026 , TASKI is introducing the all-new TASKI GO2 Professional Vacuum Cleaner to the UK market, bringing together outstanding cleaning performance, improved sustainability and exceptional value in one compact commercial vacuum. Available from Astral Hygiene , the TASKI GO2 has been developed for businesses looking for a reliable, durable and affordable vacuum cleaner without compromising on quality. Whether you're a contract cleaner, school, hotel, office, healthcare provider or facilities management company, the GO2 is set to become one of the most competiti...

  How to set up your Hygiene when running or opening an abattoir…  28th February 2025  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene I was recently engaged to set up the cleaning & hygiene practices in a newly established abattoir. This was a newly built project, and the client had engaged a health and safety team, and a consultancy to design the building, ensuring sinks etc were all in place. At the final stages when the build was almost complete, I was engaged to ensure that all cleaning and hygiene practices met the standards that were required by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) who are responsible for inspection of the hygiene standards but also the inspection of the environmental impact of an abattoir. I arrived on site, to do a site audit, and take the brief in terms of what meats they would be processing, to find that we were starting from the ground up, there were no chemicals onsite and we had a single qualified...

  Unmasking the True Cost of the Cleaning and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Industries  30th July 2024  | By Yewan Armstrong It costs the NHS £387 million to treat patients with lung cancer each year. There is a clear link between lung cancer and smoking, however, a little-known and understood contributor to this disease is also lurking in household cleaning products. These products, which churn out harmful toxins (VOCs) into the air, are causing breathing problems, skin irritation and lung damage, putting strain on our already underfunded healthcare system.    This is an example of understanding the True Cost behind not only the products we procure and sell but also the ongoing costs of repairing the damage they are causing to our health, our community, and the environment.    In 2019 The World Bank stated that by 2030, we would need to spend $90 trillion globally to fix the environmental damage we have so far accrued. To put that into perspective this i...

  Why Hand Washing Is So Important... Why is hand washing so important? Does it really have such an impact on your health?  10th March 2022  | By Rhea Crosbie   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Coronovirus 80% of known diseases are passed on through hands and touch alone; hands are the main culprit for spreading bacteria and this is why hand washing is a useful habit to encourage from an early age. In this blog, I want to give you all a clear understanding of hand hygiene and, in detail, explain how not washing your hands correctly can be extremely dangerous. Surprisingly, what people believe to be a simple task, if not done properly, can be life threatening.   Four of the most common ways bacteria is spread is: From the hands, eyes, nose, and mouth to other people From hands to food From food to hands to food, through handling raw vegetables or meat for example From children to adults In all of these examples above, you...

  What is PPE – Things you need to know  1st March 2022  | By Rhea Crosbie   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Sustainability ,  Coronovirus Personal Protective Equipment, also known as PPE has become crucial over the last few years due to COVID-19, to the point where it is now used daily by almost everyone across the world, including myself. Protective equipment such as face coverings, gloves and gowns are now vital to people’s lives, even more than they were before the virus. In some workplaces across the world, it is a legal requirement to wear PPE. However, yes, it may save hundreds of thousands of lives; but some choose to ignore this out of personal choice – but why? Do people really understand how important PPE is?   There are many different types of PPE but the term usually relates to clothing, headwear, or eyewear that has been specifically made to protect an individual who may face a health risk or danger i...