Editorial standards

Readers use this journal to write scopes, argue with a contractor, or train a supervisor. That is a higher duty than a lifestyle blog. These rules are how we try to deserve that use.

Independence

We are not a cleaning company and we do not take a cut of a contract. Product names appear when they are part of a standard, a tender schedule or a widely used method. They are not endorsements.

Sources

Prefer the primary rule: a Safe Work Australia model code, a state WHS regulator page, a food premises guideline, an Australian Standard that a specification actually cites. If we paraphrase, we name the instrument. If a practice is custom rather than law, we say so.

Statistics get a year and a body. “Industry experts say” is not a source.

Voice

Australian English. Plain sentences. No American spelling in the running text. We write “organisation”, “labour”, “metre”, “licence” (the noun) and “program” as Australians usually do. We do not write “janitorial” unless we are quoting a US document.

Corrections

If a fact is wrong, we change the page and note the update date. If the error changed advice a facilities team might have followed, we add a short correction line under the standfirst. Write to the desk.

Conflicts and sponsored links

Guest essays and paid mentions follow the write-for-us rules. Any link that exists because someone paid for it, or because it is part of a guest-post arrangement, carries rel="sponsored". Authors must declare a commercial interest in a product or contractor they mention.

Images

Photographs are Creative Commons or public domain, stored on this site, and credited on the article and on the image credits page. We do not scrape contractor galleries.

AI

Tools may help with structure. They do not get a byline, and they do not excuse a vague paragraph about “maintaining a clean environment”. A piece that could have been written about any country is not finished.