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Period Poverty: Free feminine hygiene products on match days.

Brexit has been a major concern for our clients and consumers over the past two years. With the 31^st October approaching, it’s natural for consumers and businesses to wonder about the potential risks that could arise during this transition. Over the last year, Wightman & Parrish has been working closely with our supply chain to understand and minimise the risks presented by Brexit. With political and economic changes happening almost on a daily basis, we have strived to adapt to changing circumstances and we are confident, as we can be, of our preparations to ensure a continued supply of core products to our clients.

Many organisations are beginning to understand the definitive link between the spread of illnesses and number of absences in schools and the workplace. Absences due to illness can be disruptive to learning, and cause students to fall behind in the curriculum, as well as impacting families as a whole. Fortunately, there are many ways to ensure hygiene practices are maintained in the classroom, washroom and canteen, so that students and teachers are exposed to a lower risk of illness. Wightman & Parrish hope to work with schools to lower this rate of absences and find the best hygiene products and strategy for schools to ensure the safety of their students.

Choosing the right Pressure Redistributing Mattresses can prove to be a difficult task. There are so many different options and choices available that often it is tiring trying to choose the perfect one to suit your needs.

Here we highlight the importance of pressure redistributing mattresses and what to consider when selecting one.

After recent interest and positive results with AIRsteril, Wightman & Parrish decided to interview Brian Dewsbery, Managing Director of Airscience Technology regarding their recent success within the Meat industry.

All staff in a care home have an important role in prevention and control of infection which is an integral quality issue in the care of residents and the health and safety of staff. All staff need to maintain a high standard of infection control as a matter of good practice.

Since the daunting episode of David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II aired, showing the ugly truth of what single-use plastics are doing to our environment, the worldwide movement to reduce the use of single-use plastic had a huge kick-start.

More than five outdoor workers are diagnosed with skin cancer every day, yet 90% of skin cancer deaths[1] could be prevented if exposure to UV rays were controlled.

The janitorial market is constantly changing. Now businesses have a range of choice with a number of products available for each task. Rather than spending more time and money on multiple solutions, it can be beneficial to find a multiuse product that will be affective across a range of tasks.

Many nursing homes across the UK care for patients living with dementia. In fact, recent studies have shown that the condition now affects one in 14 people in the UK over the age of 65 and one in six people over the age of 80.