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.
Materials
Certifications that mean something, water and microfibre programs, and the waste a cleaning contract quietly produces.
Liners, drums, spent pads and the difference between tenant rubbish and cleaner rubbish. Landfill versus comingled is a bay problem. Weighbridge theatre is a reporting problem.
James O'Connor · 19 August 2025
Colour-coded cloths, a laundry that does not wreck the fibre, and an auto-scrubber that is not a hose on wheels. Microfibre fails on grease and grout. Drought-era building rules still decide what you may pour.
James O'Connor · 15 April 2025
GECA is a product ecolabel. ISO 14001 is a management system. A tender that treats them as the same thing will buy a certificate and a trolley that do not match.
James O'Connor · 21 January 2025