Your legal obligation
What the law requires from self-employed commercial cleaners
Commercial cleaning involves stronger and more concentrated chemical products than domestic cleaning - industrial degreasers, heavy-duty disinfectants, descalers, floor treatments, and specialist cleaning agents that often present significant health risks with occupational exposure. COSHH regulations apply clearly and directly to commercial cleaning work. || The working environments of a commercial cleaner are also more varied and potentially more hazardous than domestic settings - large commercial kitchens, factory floors, office buildings after hours, and retail spaces all present specific risks that need to be documented. Manual handling of large containers of cleaning products, industrial cleaning machinery, and heavy equipment is a significant physical risk. || A health and safety policy, risk assessment covering the commercial cleaning environment, COSHH assessment for the products used, fire safety documentation, and skin dermatitis prevention policy are all required.
The real problem
Commercial cleaners face some of the highest chemical exposure risks of any sole trader occupation
Industrial cleaning chemicals are among the most concentrated and hazardous chemical products used by sole traders. Concentrated acids, caustic alkaline products, solvent-based degreasers, and biocidal disinfectants are routinely used in commercial cleaning work and present serious health risks without proper controls. || Despite this, many self-employed commercial cleaners have no formal COSHH assessment in place. The compliance documentation gap in commercial cleaning is well recognised but poorly addressed. || CompliantDocs generates commercial cleaning-specific documentation from your answers about the products you use and the environments you work in.
2 to 3 hours
What it takes to produce proper COSHH and risk assessment documentation for a commercial cleaning business. Our service handles it in minutes.