BICSc International launched at Interclean
April 30th 2010

A key highlight of BICSc activity at Interclean was the official launch of BICSc International, the new international trading arm of the institute, which has been established to further co-operation and raise standards in the international cleaning community. BICSc International will provide Accreditation Standards in other countries in the same way that the BICSc Accreditation Scheme, announced in January 2010, does in the UK, with the auditing of quality standards initially carried out in the UK until auditing teams have been established in other countries.

As part of the establishment of an international co-operation network, Heads of Agreement have already been drawn up for co-operation with VSR, the Research Institute for cleaning in the Netherlands, for co-operation in research to benefit BICSc members and the cleaning industry generally. In addition to broader co-operation, BICSc and VSR will stock and sell each other’s publications.

BICSc’ recently launched BICSc Accreditation scheme was another major focus of activity on the stand, with staff on hand to explain how the scheme works and to answer questions. The accreditation scheme field-tests cleaning equipment and materials under normal working conditions and gives accreditation based on efficiency and other criteria. BICSc training programmes were also explained to visitors, and the growing BICSc technical library was available for purchase on the stand.

For more information about BICSc, its accreditations, training standards and other activity, click here for www.bics.org.uk or phone +44 (0)1604 678710.

(picture shows Stan Atkins BICSc CEO)

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