Duty

Safety and compliance

WHS duties, hazardous chemicals, food premises rules and the infection-control work that sits beside a mop and bucket.

Safety and compliance

Infection control after a workplace outbreak — beyond a deep-clean invoice

Gastro and respiratory clusters ask different things of a workplace. The PCBU, the public health unit, the limits of fogging, and the decision to close a floor sit above a single invoice for a Sunday clean.

Claire Nguyen · 8 July 2025

Safety and compliance

Food premises cleaning: what local councils actually look for

FSANZ sets the Code, states write the Food Acts, council EHOs walk the floor. Cleaning schedules as evidence, allergens, grease traps versus floor soil, and the point where pest control and cleaning have to meet.

Ellen Marks · 20 May 2025

Safety and compliance

WHS duties when cleaners work in someone else's building

Overlapping PCBUs, night access, lone work, plant, asbestos and lead registers, and consultation. A cleaning crew in a host building is not a visitor who left their duties in the van.

Tom Bradley · 4 March 2025

Safety and compliance

Hazardous chemicals and SDS duties for cleaning teams

GHS labels, current safety data sheets, decanting, the bleach-and-acid mistake, storage, induction, and the split of duties between a PCBU host and a cleaning contractor. The folder in the store only counts if it matches the trolley.

Tom Bradley · 3 December 2024