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Clean-Skills Training

Training Built for the Real Workplace

Structured, information-based training that gives cleaning employees a stronger foundation of professional knowledge while supporting the hands-on training provided by their employer.

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Built for general commercial cleaning environments

Cleaning Chemicals module screen from Clean-Skills Professional

Professional · Cleaning Chemicals

Clean-Skills Professional
Cross-contamination quick reference sheet
Video Training Knowledge Assessments Certificates Workplace Resources

The Employer Problem

Stop Starting From Scratch With Every New Hire

Cleaning employees do not all arrive with the same knowledge, or with any previous training at all. Clean-Skills Training provides a consistent foundation of commercial cleaning knowledge that employers can then build on through their own hands-on, workplace-specific training.

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Different starting points

One new hire is completely new to commercial cleaning. The next arrives with years of established habits, some of them correct.

Trained differently depending on who trained them

What an employee knows ends up depending on which supervisor or co-worker happened to show them.

Practices carried in from somewhere else

Methods learned at a previous site continue quietly, whether or not they suit yours.

What Clean-Skills Is

Knowledge That Supports Hands-On Training

An information-based commercial cleaning training program that teaches the knowledge behind professional commercial cleaning — chemical safety, PPE, cross-contamination, restrooms, surface and floor care, equipment operation and the standards quality is judged against. The purpose is to help employees understand the principles behind the work, not simply memorize a sequence of tasks.

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Clean-Skills Training is designed to support — not replace — an employer’s hands-on, workplace-specific training.

The training is narrated instruction with supporting visuals. It is not a demonstration of a cleaner performing each task on your site.

Every workplace is different

Employers remain responsible for training employees on their actual:

  • Facility
  • Equipment
  • Products and chemicals
  • Policies
  • Procedures
  • Workplace-specific requirements

Clean-Skills is designed to give employees a stronger knowledge foundation before or alongside workplace-specific training.

General commercial cleaning environments. Clean-Skills Training is not designed as training for healthcare or medical facilities, where additional infection prevention and control requirements, procedures, regulations and facility-specific training may apply.

What Is Included

More Than Just Training Videos

What is included depends on the option selected.

Training Videos

Structured, information-based lessons, narrated module by module with supporting visuals.

FoundationsProfessional

Knowledge Assessments

Questions through the course and a final test, to reinforce learning and show where more instruction may help.

FoundationsProfessional

Certificates

Recognition of successful course completion where applicable, so you have a record of who has been trained.

FoundationsProfessional

Workplace Reference Sheets

A completed printable binder of reference sheets that reinforce key information and stay useful on site after the course is finished.

Foundations — limitedProfessionalComplete

Manual, SOPs & Operational Standards

The procedures in writing, attached to the modules they belong to, plus a completed printable manual.

Complete — company package
Foundations and Professional are purchased per employee. The written manual, SOPs and Operational Standards come with Complete, the company-level package.

Actual Course Materials

Genuine Clean-Skills resources

A few real examples, shown as supplied.

Common sources of cross-contamination reference poster
Cross-ContaminationWorkplace reference sheet
GHS quick guide reference poster
GHS Quick GuideChemical safety reference
PPE selection guide reference poster
PPE Selection GuideProtection by task
SOP-22 Restroom Cleaning and Disinfection, page one
SOP-22Written procedure

From the Founder

Why I Built Clean-Skills Training

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I spent years as a team lead in commercial cleaning. My job was not to get rid of employees who were not performing. It was to lead them, train them, and help them get it right. When an employee is struggling, the answer is not always a new employee. Often the answer is better training.
Founder, Clean-Skills TrainingMore than 24 years of experience in commercial cleaning, including extensive experience as a team lead.

Knowing how to complete a cleaning task is not always the same as understanding the principles behind it.

An employee may have been shown how to perform a task without being taught why the procedure matters, how products are meant to be used, or how cross-contamination occurs. That gap is the reason this program exists.

Throughout my experience, I continued to see many of the same knowledge gaps and incorrect practices in different workplaces. These are real examples I have personally observed.

  • Vinegar being used in place of a disinfectant.
  • The same cleaning cloth being used on toilets and sinks.
  • Cleaning water used throughout an entire facility without being changed when needed.
  • Floor finish and spray-buff products confused or used incorrectly.
Incorrect practices can come from shortcuts, inconsistent instruction, habits carried in from a previous workplace, or simply because an employee was never taught the knowledge behind the task. Clean-Skills was created to help address that training gap.

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Training Options

Employee training, and a company package

Foundations and Professional are purchased for employees. Complete is purchased once by the company.

Employee training Purchased per employee
Clean-Skills Foundations

Foundations

Foundational commercial cleaning knowledge designed to create a more consistent starting point.

15
Modules
1
Certificate
  • Safety, PPE, chemical awareness and the core cleaning procedures
  • Dedicated Microfiber Cloths module
  • Restroom Procedure module
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Clean-Skills Professional

Professional

For employees who need broader commercial cleaning knowledge, including specialised areas, floor care and commercial equipment.

32
Modules
132
Resources
  • Builds on the foundation modules, with downloadable resources and the completed printable Workplace Reference Sheets binder
  • Microfiber cloths covered in greater detail within Cross Contamination
  • Expanded Restroom module plus Restroom Quality and Inspection
See what Professional covers
Company & employer package Purchased once per company
Clean-Skills Complete One purchase
per company

For employers & companies

Complete

A company-level package for employers who want the full Clean-Skills Training manual, SOPs and Operational Standards to support consistent workplace training and procedures.

What the company receives

  • Completed printable SOP & Operational Standards manual
  • Standard Operating Procedures and Operational Standards
  • Completed printable Workplace Reference Sheets binder
  • The Chemical Reference Library

How the purchase works

  • One Complete purchase per company — not one per employee
  • The company then purchases Foundations or Professional seats for individual employees, according to the level of training required
Clean-Skills SOP and Operational Standards manual cover
OS-23 Restroom Cleaning Quality Standard, page one
Supervisor inspection standards reference poster

Written inspection standards help create more consistent expectations, so supervisors are evaluating the same areas against the same standards.

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Genuine Differences in Depth

Foundations and Professional differ in content, not only in price

Foundations is intentionally foundational. Professional goes deeper in specific subject areas.

Microfiber cloths → cross-contamination

Foundations

A dedicated Microfiber Cloths module introduces the subject at the foundational level.

Professional

Microfiber cloths are covered in greater detail within the broader Cross Contamination module. The subject is carried forward, not removed.

Restroom training → restroom quality

Foundations

A Restroom Procedure module covers restroom work at the foundational level.

Professional

A longer, more detailed restroom module, followed by a separate Restroom Quality and Inspection module.

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For Employers

Training That Helps You See Where More Support Is Needed

The assessments in Clean-Skills Training are not simply about passing a quiz. They give you another way to see where an employee demonstrates understanding, and where additional explanation, coaching or hands-on training may be beneficial.

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A clearer starting picture

Assessments run through the course and close with a final test, so you can see which subjects an employee has understood.

Coaching pointed at the right thing

When results show a subject an employee has not grasped, you know which conversation to have on site.

What an assessment does not do. Completing an online assessment does not prove hands-on workplace competency, and it does not replace hands-on evaluation, supervision or workplace-specific training.

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Scope

This training supports hands-on instruction — it does not replace it

Clean-Skills Training is an information-based commercial cleaning course designed to support an employer’s hands-on training. It does not replace workplace-specific hands-on instruction, and employers remain responsible for appropriate workplace-specific training.

Visuals

Some supporting visuals are still being improved

Some images and visual demonstrations used throughout the training are currently a work in progress and may not precisely represent every product, piece of equipment, procedure or workplace setting. The instructional information and narration are the training content, and learners should rely on those rather than on the visuals alone.

Not healthcare

Not designed as healthcare or medical-facility cleaning training

Clean-Skills Training is intended for general commercial cleaning environments. Healthcare and medical environments may have specialised infection prevention, cleaning, disinfection, regulatory and facility-specific requirements that are outside the scope of this program.

Build a Stronger Foundation for Your Cleaning Team

Practical commercial cleaning knowledge designed to support the training you provide in the workplace.

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Questions about the training or employee access? Email info@clean-skills.com