164 | Business World Magazine |
October 2013
of our staff comes from different coun-
tries and they just want a home. They
want to work. They want to be respect-
ed and treated fairly. If you can provide
those components, they’ll stay with you
and they’ll move a mountain of laundry.
That’s what our people do every day, they
move a mountain of laundry and they do
it with a smile on their face,” explains
Noel. Fair compensation and benefits,
appropriately aligning the skills of each
worker with the appropriate task, taking
time to treat staff to lunch and incentiv-
izing safety success through opportuni-
ties to win awards through the playing of
games such as “Safety Bingo,” – these
represent a few aspects of how COMTEX
keeps everyone engaged on the same page
in terms of operational safety and product
quality. As Noel says, taking care of staff
helps ensure they will appropriately take
care of customers.
SOLUTIONS IN
STERILIZATION
Beyond its basic laundry operations,
COMTEX additionally specializes in ser-
vices involving operating room textiles
