As part of the project, 20 educational videos were created on how to teach cleaning ergonomics. These videos show exactly how different cleaning activities can cause stress and strain the body and increase the risk of an accident at work. The videos show work practices that stress and damage the body, and alternative movements that do not stress or damage the body as much during cleaning activities. The videos cover both physical and mental factors.
October 2024 was special for our team – we were able to work with specialists from a large Icelandic cleaning company, Solar ehf, for 2 weeks to develop and streamline their cleaning processes.
Cleaning can be good for your health, but it can also be harmful. It all depends on HOW you clean, it depends on knowledge and skills.
The Professional cleaning and facility management association of Latvia (LPUAA) in cooperation with the project’s leading partner OÜ Puhastusekspert is starting the implementation of the Erasmus+ project 2024-1-EE01-KA210-VET-000246665 “CleanSkil: Bridging the Estonian-Latvian Competency Divide”. The project is implemented with the support of Erasmus+, which is an EU program to support education, training, youth and sports in Europe. The project implementation period is from 01.09.2024 until 28.02.2026.
Dust is inescapable. It kind of just happens. Dust is dirt that can have a direct impact on our health. In addition to allergies, it can affect even healthy people because dusty rooms can contain more mould spores than normal. Breathing in dust and spores uses up a certain amount of the body’s energy to cope with them, resulting in reduced immunity. If a person weakened by this then comes into contact with a virus, they are more likely to fall ill. We also tend to feel more tired in such spaces.