Practice

Workplace hygiene

What clean actually looks like in Australian offices, tenancies and shared buildings — inspections, high-touch work, indoor air and the habits that last after the night crew leaves.

Workplace hygiene

Indoor air quality is a cleaning job, not only an HVAC job

Dust reservoirs, vacuum filtration, chemical volatiles and damp after mopping sit on the cleaning side of a building. Plants will not save a tenancy that soils itself every night.

Claire Nguyen · 6 May 2025

Workplace hygiene

The real cost of tired carpet in a commercial tenancy

Appearance is a lagging indicator. Vacuum frequency, soil load, interim and restorative cleaning, AS/NZS 3733 and lease make-good decide whether a floor is maintained or quietly written off.

Claire Nguyen · 8 April 2025

Workplace hygiene

High-touch surface protocols that survive a real Australian workplace

Lifts, door furniture, meeting rooms and shared keyboards need a protocol people will still follow on a wet Wednesday, not a laminated leftover from 2021. Dwell times, colour-coding and the limits of an alcohol wipe.

Claire Nguyen · 11 March 2025

Workplace hygiene

After-hours office cleaning: what a facilities manager should actually inspect

A foyer walk at 8am is not an inspection. This is a practical route through kitchens, washrooms, glass, bins, high dust, security and the conversation you should have with the night supervisor.

Claire Nguyen · 4 February 2025

Workplace hygiene

Writing a commercial cleaning specification that a night crew can use

A specification that only a contract manager can read will not be cleaned. This piece walks through rooms, tasks, outcomes, frequencies, exclusions and inspection language that a night crew can actually follow.

Claire Nguyen · 14 January 2025