An Australian facilities journal
Est. 2004 · Australia
Commercial CleanersWorkplace hygiene, contracts and practice for Australian facilitiesIndependent writing for facility managers, contractors and the people who still have to clean the building on Monday.
Places
Cleaning is not one job. Clinics, schools, shops, kitchens, warehouses and early learning centres each have their own soil, hours and inspectors.
National Regulations, toys, nappy change, sandpits and chemical choice around children. After-hours work does the floors; during-session work does the mess. Neither needs a hospital protocol copied onto a kindy trolley.
Ellen Marks · 16 September 2025
Concrete dust, oil, ride-on scrubbers, line marking and cold stores decide whether a warehouse floor lasts the week. Food-grade sites and 3PL sheds are not the same specification, even when the machine looks identical.
Ellen Marks · 5 August 2025
Guests see rooms and a lobby. Councils, auditors and night auditors see kitchens, linen, grease and the dock. How hotel housekeeping and back-of-house cleaning actually split, and what an outbreak does to that split.
Ellen Marks · 17 June 2025
Term-time cleaning is toilets, traffic and child safety. Holiday programs are strip-and-seal, labs and the work you cannot do while a school is full. Universities add 24-hour libraries and a graffiti problem that does not wait for the holidays.
Ellen Marks · 29 April 2025
Retail cleaning is two jobs sharing one trolley. Day porters, night crews, food versus fashion versus hardware, spills in trade, trolley bays, mall common areas and the Christmas roster that always arrives late.
Ellen Marks · 18 February 2025
A general practice is not a hospital, and a waiting room is not a treatment room. Blood, clinical waste, after-hours access and the limits of “hospital-grade” on a clinic trolley.
Ellen Marks · 8 October 2024