Cleanfax, September 2019

FOREWORD Yes You Should ISSA Show North America is important to you as a professional cleaner and restorer Heres why BY AMANDA HOSEY I know what you could be thinking Im not involved in facility maintenance So Im not sure why I should attend the ISSA Show I understand where youre coming from but heres the thing ISSA Show North America taking place November 18 21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center holds interest for many outside the facility maintenance and building service contractor arena What will you nd at ISSA Show North America e Specialty Cleaning Restoration Pavilion is back for the second year ere you will see demonstrations in advanced cleaning and restoration techniques Youll visit with well known industry manufacturers and other service providers from restoration franchisors to dehumidi er airmover and truckmount manufacturers everything you use in your company ere are multiple educational sessions of interest including a hard oor care certi cation course from the Cleaning Management Institute CMI eres more to explore Diversi cation avenues networking events and products directly impacting your 4 CLEANFAX SEP 2019 company such as vacuums and portable extractors And heres a key component of the show You will see products from manufacturers you might not be familiar with but who o er solutions that could substantially improve your productivity e goal of ISSA is to represent all segments of the industry including carpet cleaners and disaster restoration professionals and to work to elevate and change the way the world views cleaning ISSA is the leading advocate of the cleaning industry and to that end has worked to ally itself with other powerful and important associations to use their combined powers to meet these goals For instance you might have seen recently that the Global Biorisk Advisory Council GBAC merged with ISSA GBAC is made up of those working in forensic restoration bio decontamination and biosafety control and it has joined forces with ISSA in an e ort to o er more science based education create licensing programs within these sectors and advocate for the involved parties Read more about the merger on page 22 of this issue of Cleanfax ISSA also has been working closely with the IICRC and RIA in their individual e orts to educate and protect our cleaners and restorers In fact RIA is co locating its Technical Fire Restoration Summit with ISSA Show North America and all those attending the RIA event can also visit the ISSA trade show oor compliments of ISSA and RIA At ISSA Show North America 2019 there will be plenty to pique your interest Ill be there and I hope to see you there too MANAGING EDITOR Jeff Cross Editorial Director JeffCross@ issa com 740 973 4236 Amanda Hosey Managing Editor Amandah@ issa com 205 530 4775 Erika Talbot Art Director Erika@ issa com Amanda Martini Hughes Digital Media Coordinator Amanda@ issa com Micah Ogburn Director of Media Sales Micah@ issa com 847 982 3486 Abby Ingraham Senior Account Executive Sales Abby@ issa com 847 982 3484 Scott Beech Account Executive Sales Scott@ issa com 224 534 5062 3300 Dundee Road Northbrook IL 60062 847 982 0800 ISSA com Subscriber Customer Service Cleanfax@ omeda com 8558402131 cleanfax com subscribe