About People
People gathers articles told through the people who do the work. There are profiles of family businesses such as the Sumeet Group and HPC Enterprises, where Pruthvi Sanghavi talks about taking over from her father, and of newer ventures including Dima Techind and WeClean. Ajay and Sapna Rao of Ambience Services describe maintaining housing societies, and Prabhat Shukla of InterContinental Doha explains the practices changing hotel housekeeping.
Many pieces pass on working knowledge: a pharma laundry checklist from ADD Laundry Concepts, stain identification for launderers, kitchen stewarding, hygiene in housekeeping and green cleaning products. Others report from large sites and sectors, including coach cleaning on Indian Railways, the Tirumala temple, national highways, cement plants, tea factories and the dyeing units of Tirupur, as well as Prayagraj's work on legacy waste.
The section suits housekeeping and laundry managers, FM business owners and anyone who prefers to learn from peers.
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- Innovative Housekeeping Smarter, Faster, Cleaner A hotel housekeeping director on the practices and technology changing the job
- The pharma laundry checklist What a pharma laundry must do with coveralls, caps, gloves and foot covers to stop cross contamination
- Maintaining Housing Societies Ambience Services on what servicing housing societies involves
- HPC Enterprises Pvt. Ltd Redefining the Hygiene Way Pruthvi Sanghavi on taking over HPC Enterprises and her plans for its hygiene business
- Celebrating 29 glorious years of the Sumeet Group with a glimpse into its ambitious future Three Sumeet Group leaders on the milestones of the company's journey in FM
- Identification of stains & treatment How launderers identify stains by edge, feel and colour before treating them
- Coach Cleaning How Indian Railways planned mechanised cleaning of trains, stations and platforms
- Kitchen stewarding and cleanliness The kitchen steward's part in keeping production and service areas clean
Questions readers ask
How are stains identified in a laundry?
Three criteria are used to identify and classify the most common stains: the type of edge, the feel and the colour. Read the article
What needs special care in a pharmaceutical laundry?
The barrier coveralls, caps, gloves and foot covers used in the manufacturing area, where care is needed to avoid cross contamination and to protect people. Read the article
What does a kitchen steward do for cleanliness?
Kitchen stewarding sits between food production and other services. Its aim is cleanliness and hygiene in both the production area and the service areas. Read the article
How is hygienic housekeeping different from ordinary cleaning?
It goes beyond making a place look clean and neat, and deals with hygiene issues that are not immediately visible but affect the people working or staying there. Read the article