Scope written for a warehouse
A generic industrial scope misses plant rooms, machinery surrounds and permit areas entirely, then everyone argues about it later.
Factory and production cleaning.
A production floor is not a warehouse with machines in it. The cleaning has to fit around plant, permits and product.
- Production areas and machinery surrounds
- Food-grade and audit-ready work
- Around your shutdown windows
Melbourne & the western suburbs
Cleaning around live plant.
Manufacturing sites through Derrimut, Brooklyn, Altona North and Campbellfield tend to be older and more varied than the new distribution estates. Buildings have been extended, plant has been added, and the cleaning problem is rarely one uniform floor — it is a workshop, a production hall, a packing area and an office, each needing something different.
The constraints are different too. You cannot wash down near live electrical plant. Some areas need isolation or a permit before anyone works in them. Product changeovers and shutdowns dictate when the deep work can happen, and those windows are short and planned months out.
So the useful question is not how often we come, but what gets done in which window. We build the scope around your shutdown calendar and your daily gaps, and we are explicit about what needs plant isolated before we can touch it.
What's included
The scope, in plain terms.
Production floors
Scrubbing and degreasing around machinery, conveyors and packing lines, worked in sections so the line is never fully blocked. Where wash-down is not safe, dry and low-moisture methods are used instead.
Machinery surrounds and plant rooms
Degreasing, swarf and residue removal from around presses, lathes, compressors and plant rooms. Anything requiring isolation or a permit is agreed with your maintenance supervisor first, never assumed.
Food-grade and packaging areas
Full PPE, colour-coded equipment and documented method so cleaning stands up to a HACCP or retailer audit. We can work to your existing cleaning schedule rather than imposing ours.
Workshops and maintenance bays
The dirtiest areas on most sites, and usually the last to get attention. Periodic deep cleans here make a bigger difference to how the site presents than anything else.
Amenities, lunchrooms and change rooms
Serviced daily or weekly with consumables restocked. On a factory site these carry more weight than usual, because they are what staff judge the employer on.
Shutdown and changeover work
Deep cleans booked into planned shutdowns, Christmas closures and product changeovers, when areas can be reached that are otherwise live all year.
Worth knowing
What makes factory cleaning go wrong.
No plan for isolation
If nobody agreed which equipment gets isolated and by whom, the cleaning around it simply does not happen.
Shutdown windows missed
Deep work that can only happen during a shutdown has to be booked into that calendar months ahead, not requested the week before.
Audit documentation missing
Food and pharmaceutical sites need a record of what was cleaned and how. Cleaning that cannot be evidenced is a finding waiting to happen.
Common questions
Questions we get asked.
Can you clean around live production equipment?
Around it, yes, using dry and low-moisture methods where wash-down would be unsafe. Anything requiring the plant to be isolated is agreed with your maintenance supervisor and scheduled — we do not isolate equipment ourselves or work on a machine that has not been made safe by your people.
Do you work to HACCP or retailer audit requirements?
Yes. Food-grade areas are cleaned in full PPE with colour-coded equipment, and we can follow your documented cleaning schedule and leave a record of what was done, so the work is evidenced when an auditor asks.
Can you do deep cleans during our shutdown?
That is usually the best time to do them, and it needs booking ahead — shutdown windows are short and every contractor wants the same days. Tell us your shutdown calendar and we will scope the work to fit it.
Do you clean workshops and maintenance areas?
Yes, including degreasing and swarf removal. These are the areas most often left out of a cleaning contract and the ones that make the biggest visible difference when they finally get attention.
Where we work
Across Melbourne, strongest in the west.
Manufacturing and workshop sites across Derrimut, Brooklyn, Altona North, Tottenham, Sunshine West, Campbellfield and the surrounding industrial areas.
Need a quote for your site?
Tell us the size and the hours that suit. We walk through, then give you a clear price with nothing hidden — and we call back within 2 hours.