FREE short-term sickness guide

Short-term sickness absence can be disruptive, but with the right approach, you can manage it smoothly and support your employees’ wellbeing.

That’s why our Corporate Member, Citation, has created a FREE short-term sickness guide to help you confidently handle absence and stay compliant.

Inside, you’ll find:

How to manage short-term absence fairly and legally
• Best practices for return-to-work interviews
• Fit note and SSP essentials
• Tips to reduce disruption and boost productivity
• Tools to create a supportive absence policy

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.