Cleaning & Facilities Manual Handling Guides
The same course for cleaning and facilities staff wherever you work — eight modules, a 20-question assessment and a Certificate of Completion for A$49. These pages answer the questions people ask before they start, with the regulator guidance each answer rests on.
Take the AssessmentCommon questions
Straight answers, with the regulator guidance they rest on linked at the end of each.
- Mopping and vacuumingHow to mop and vacuum for a whole shift without wearing out your back: flat mop systems, less water, a fitted backpack vacuum, cord control and rotation.
- Bins and waste weightsThere is no legal weight limit for a rubbish bag or bin in Australia. What matters is the unknown load, the lift over the rim and the sharps inside.
- Back and shoulder injuriesCleaners are injured by light tasks repeated in poor postures under time pressure, not by heavy lifts. What causes the injuries and what prevents them.
- Working alone at nightWorking alone as a night cleaner: lone-worker check-ins, unfamiliar buildings, faulty equipment, and why a two-person task still waits for two people at 3 am.
- Hotel housekeepingThe manual handling risks in hotel housekeeping — low beds, mattress corners, wet linen, loaded carts and room quotas — and the controls that reduce them.
- Who provides equipmentUsually both: the cleaning contractor and the client site are each PCBUs with duties to supply and maintain manual handling equipment and to consult you.