Australia · Trade press for cleaning contractors
The Australian journal of commercial cleaning
Cleaning ContractorsTenders, labour, chemicals, compliance and the contract book — written for people who run the job.
Heights, sharps, keys, workers compensation and the modern slavery statement that now sits next to the insurance certificate.
Australian work health and safety, labour-hire risk and the compliance paperwork clients actually ask to see.
The Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) bites at $100 million — and the questionnaire still lands on a three-van subcontractor because cleaning is how a reporting entity’s night shift is staffed.
16 July 2025
Master keys, swipe fobs and alarm codes are the job. Lost metal, shared PINs and an uncleared casual on a Sunday are how a cleaning contract becomes a break-in with your name on the log.
25 June 2025
A needle in a station toilet is a first-aid and WHS event; a yellow bag from a clinic is an EPA-licensed waste stream. Mixing them with the general bin is how contractors lose the site and the worker.
28 May 2025
Premiums, host duties and labour-hire licences sit in different columns in each state, but the injuries are the same — wet floors, needles, chemicals and the roster that sent an untrained person to all three.
23 April 2025
A step ladder in a wet amenity and a boom in a shopping-centre void are the same legal duty in different clothes. Client pressure is not a control, and a SWMS that names the real access method is.
26 March 2025