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TRSA Executive Roundtables offer an opportunity to network with colleagues serving similar markets to discuss operational and market-specific issues impacting major niches of the industry. Owners and top-level management from textile services operations are encouraged to participate in Roundtables to receive updates on issues related to sales, service, legislation, regulation, labor, safety, commodities and energy pertinent to their organizations' niches. Discussion may also address emerging industry standards, best practices, certifications, supply chain sourcing and other topics certain to foster constructive exchange of information critical to the future of laundry operations that provide the textile products needed to serve the independent industrial market and improve providers' public image.

Register: http://www.trsa.org/calendarevent/executive-roundtable-independent-indus...

TRSA and its Safety Committee seek to enhance the industry’s “safety culture” by documenting “best practices” to accelerate safety performance and eliminate incidents. Discussions at the Summit will identify risks in laundry plant and service work that require improved mitigation and propose solutions.

Safety experts emphasize that while management often claims a “commitment to safety” the real or imagined pressures of production can and often do defeat safety programs as the majority of these efforts focus on compliance and requirements, not zero-based objectives. Instead of developing new strategies and tactics, safety management focuses on existing practices:
- Too much effort on enforcing specifications, rules, reporting and regulations compared with evaluating their effectiveness
- Command and control by management to prompt compliance as opposed to finding other sources of motivation

The Summit will foster novel approaches by identifying the most difficult obstacles the industry faces in eliminating injuries and illnesses and developing consensus proposals for overcoming them. Conclusions will drive TRSA programming such as best practices documentation, conference presentations, education/training, research/benchmarking and other resources.

Register: http://www.trsa.org/node/10378

The IAHTM 2012 Annual Member Meeting and Education Conference (International Association for Healthcare Textile Management) is set for Sept. 8-13 in Indianapolis at the historic Omni Hotel. Education Partners and Conference Sponsors are invited to join in events the evening of Sept. 10 and all day on Sept. 11. Keynote speaker Dr. Janet Lapp will offer strategies on managing change for personal success and organizational efficiencies. Membership in IAHTM is by invitation only. www.iahtm.com

INDIANAPOLIS — Calderon Textiles LLC has acquired A.B. Cameron Inc., a manufacturer of Milliken and Co.’s Signature Plus table napery products in Nogales, Mexico. The acquisition will allow Calderon Textiles to expand its manufacturing and distribution capabilities to include a complete line of table napery, the company says.

INDIANAPOLIS – It’s important for a healthcare laundry manager to know how to launder and handle reusable surgical fabrics, but it might also be helpful for them to understand how the fabrics are used in the operating room and who’s using them.

That was the basis of a lively seminar presentation by Judy Kaifas, R.N., PrePaK nurse consultant for Standard Textile Co.