EDITORIAL COMMENT
JUNE 2022 3
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Alan Hutchinson, Facilities Director, Howard Kennedy LLP
Charles Siddons, Head of Operations, NHS Property Services
Darren Miller, Head of EMEA Facilities Operations, PayPal
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Lucy Hind, Senior FM Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University
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Russell Burnaby, Head of FM, Regeneration and Environment, Brent Council
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The FMJ team has been out and about recently, from
the Facilities Show at London’s ExCeL, to the 2022
Kimberly-Clark Professional Golden Service Awards
which recognises excellence by FM companies,
contract cleaners and in-house cleaning teams in
achieving exceptional standards.
During the Facilities Show FMJ was pleased to host
a panel debate, ‘Sustainability in FM and achieving
Environmental, Social and Governance’; chaired by Jo
Sutherland, MD of Magenta Associates. The importance
FMs now place on achieving ESG was reflected in the full
house for the event, and the panel didn’t disappoint,
covering a range of issues pertaining to ESG, from
supporting the circular economy to the huge contribution
FM can make to social value strategies. The conclusion
of the session was that ESG is a massive strategic
opportunity for the FM sector.
Another key area of discussion, echoed at the Golden
Service Awards, is that frontline services jobs need to be
properly recompensed and sta treated with respect.
Speaking at the keynote event prior to the awards, Jim
Melvin the Chairman of The British Cleaning Council revealed
he has asked to meet the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case
regarding revelations in the Sue Gray report that members
of operational sta – in particular cleaners and security sta
were shown a “lack of respect” at Downing Street events.
As he notes, “at a time when many cleaning and hygiene
operational sta , arguably as frontline workers, were putting
themselves directly at risk to maintain high standards of
hygiene and ensure that Key Workers and the public were
kept as safe as possible during the pandemic, it is absolutely
appalling and upsetting to hear that they were being treated
with such contempt.” It is yet another reminder why the
sector needs to collaborate at an industry level to champion
and push forward ESG for both the good of the wider
economy and FM.
As always, we’d welcome your feedback about any aspect of
the magazine, together with your insight into what’s happening
in the FM sector.
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