10.21.21
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the development of a new body that brings together the main associations representing Italy’s professional cleaning sector to engender involvement in the decision-making processes concerning the containment of the virus through the cleaning of public and private facilities.
The Cleaning and Services Interassociative Team (TIPS) merges 10 organizations representing cleaning and those for the manufacturers and distributors of professional cleaning equipment. They are: AFIDAMP national association of professional cleaning equipment suppliers; Confartigianato Cleaning Companies; CNA Cleaning Companies; Casartigiani Cleaning Companies; Confcooperative Lavoro e Servizi; FNIP Confcommercio; National School Services Foundation; ISSA EMEA; Legacoop Production and Services; and Unionservizi Confapi.
On Oct. 12, the TIPS presented its manifesto of intent in the press room of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome. Those in attendance included Honorable Rossella Muroni (FacciamoECO); Andrea Loro Piana, Board member of AFIDAMP Italian association of manufacturers and distributors of equipment for professional cleaning; and Alvaro Giovannini, president of Confartigianato Cleaning Companies among many others.
TIPS will set up a control room composed of representatives of all the member organizations, which will structure a set of proposals to bring to the attention of the legislator and the government, as well as awareness-raising actions towards stakeholders and public opinion.
Its main objectives include enhancing the sector and its operators; the standardization of cleaning processes and protocols; the regulatory clarification of the concept of sanitation and of which subjects are qualified for this professional service; and the fight against contractual dumping, forms of unfair competition, and the total exit from the logic of the maximum discount for the purchases of services by the public administration; the recognition of professional skills voluntarily obtained on the job also through qualification courses for cleaning company operators; and a renewed pact between public and private based on increasing the quality of services.