Keeping Pace With Alberta’s Oily Laundry

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Every morning the workers of Good Fish Lake Development Limited Partnership (Good Fish Lake), a commercial laundry in the Canadian province of Alberta, drive three hours into the boreal forest surrounding the town of Fort McMurray to pick up oil workers’ sheets, towels and tar-drenched industrial coveralls. The soiled linens are packed into a semi-truck and transported back to Good Fish Lake, where the laundry is cleaned.

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Liftin Linen

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Ergonomically correct laundry department operations
A few years ago, the institutional laundry and linen management industry was expecting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to require that ergonomic-related injuries be reported in a separate column on the OSHA form 300 log.

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It's A Pre-Wash

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Why would someone take advantage of Standard Textile’s new pre-laundering program, Room Ready For You™? Mike Clanton, director of laundry services at Gaylord Entertainment’s Opryland hotel in Nashville, Tennessee says, “It’s the convenience.”

Standard Textile's program offers customers towels that are pre-washed, pre-shrunk and ready to use -- straight out of the box.

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The New Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council

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EVANSTON, Ill. – The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) is a non-profit organization recently formed for the purpose of inspecting and accrediting laundries processing healthcare textiles for hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities.

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