Citation | Free Guide: Managing heat stress!

Free Guide: Managing heat stress!

With temperatures climbing this week, heat stress is a growing risk – from reduced concentration and productivity to serious issues like heat exhaustion and heatstroke. That’s why our Corporate Member, Citation, has issued clear, practical guidance for our members.

Understanding the risks around heat stress, and taking sensible, practical steps to manage them, is essential if you want to protect your employees’ health and meet your legal duties.

Citation’s guide will help you:

Understand what heat stress is and how it affects workers
Identify high‑risk roles, environments and individuals
Put practical controls in place to reduce risk during hot weather
Review and update risk assessments, policies and procedures

Your BICSc member benefit

If you’d like to chat about how Citation can help with the HR and Health & Safety side of your business, just give them a call on 0345 844 1111, or fill in their call-back form, and they’ll get right back to you. Remember to quote ‘British Institute of Cleaning Science’ when enquiring to access preferential rates. 

Membership | Training | Standards

BICSc is the largest independent, professional, and educational body within the cleaning industry providing training and education, setting standards and procedures for cleaning. BICSc membership now stands at over 71,000 individual and corporate members in the UK and Internationally.

We are a membership organisation that strives to bring recognition of the vital role cleaning operatives play in everyone’s day-to-day life.

Whether you’re shopping, travelling, working, holidaying or recuperating, every one of these scenarios has cleaning staff striving to ensure that the environment is not only clean but also safe.

Founded over 60 years ago, BICSc key objective is to promote the value and professionalism of the cleaning industry, providing training in the key skills required to enhance a cleaning operative’s core role whilst keeping them safe and encouraging them to work in a more effective and efficient manner.

With a range of both practical and theoretical qualifications available, BICSc has something to help further the career of every cleaning professional from entry level, through to supervisor level, and up to an employer with your own business tendering for cleaning contracts.