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Porvoo Food and Cleaning Services were selected as the winners of the award Cleaning Industry Organization of 2024.

Puhtaustieto, puhtaus.fi, selects an exemplary company or an entity representing the cleaning industry each year, which though its operations continuously

• increases the know-how of their entire staff
• works with professionalism and puts the people first
• consistently develops the organization’s activities

Puhtaustieto organizes trainings, seminars and Taito days and publishes specialty magazines in the fields of cleanliness and caretaking. The prize was awarded at the two-day development forum for the Cleaning and Caretaking sector in Helsinki. Each year, the Development Forum provides up-to-date research information, visions of the future and key information presented by various experts. This year’s topics included circular economy, various digital solutions and robotics, and well-being at work.

The grounds for awarding the price:

 Porvoo Food and Cleaning Services have identified that the quality of the cleaning services are a result of constant development and professional competence.

“Porvoo Food and Cleaning Services have actively invested in the long-term development of their own operations and personnel’s expertise and well-being, which has directly affected customer satisfaction”

At the beginning of the year, employees at the Food and Cleaning Services in schools and kindergartens were granted a meal benefit which, in return for a nominal fee, ensures a warm meal during the working day and an important break.

The Food and Cleaning Services employ 180 people, of which 99 people work in cleaning services: 4 team managers, 6 industrial cleaners, 75 custodians, 14 service managers, 10 of whom are in combination work and 4 of whom rotate.

• It was a pleasure bringing the trophy to Porvoo, says Service Manager Marianne Seppänen and Development Manager Christina Komu.

The award for Workplace of the Year 2023 was presented during the main event of the Workplace Well-being Week, 26.10.2023. The Food and Cleaning Services unit at Metsätähti has genuinely recognized the possibilities of diversity, which in turn is reflected in the high quality of the operative work. The cooperation in the workplace is easy and smooth, and the working environment is encouraging.