Education · Sector operations

Campus hygiene tools organised around the spaces students and staff actually use.

Education facilities combine classrooms, washrooms, kitchens, hostels and labs. High-touch surfaces need regular attention, while chemical management must account for children, staff and different room types.

Start with the operating area Education products

CampusClean PlannerSite-defined standardsAccountable review

Designed around your operation

A clearer routine for every campus space.

Coordinate classrooms, shared spaces and recurring tasks around the rhythm of your campus.

Explore the operating areas

Illustrative workflow

A working day, connected.

Context · area and approved method

Ownership · responsible team

Evidence · completion and exceptions

Review · accountable closure

A simple working rhythm

From context to action.

Map the spaces

Begin with the spaces, risks and approved instructions that govern your site.

Plan the routine

Make responsibilities and operating constraints visible before work begins.

Close the loop

Record exceptions and route unresolved items to the responsible person.

Before you begin

Know what to expect.

Useful tools start with clear boundaries.

Can this replace our site procedures?

No. Use the planner alongside approved SOPs and locally defined responsibilities. It structures the work; it does not set your operating standard.

Are saved drafts shared with my team?

Saved drafts and snapshots stay in the browser where they were created. They are not account-synced or automatically shared across devices.

Where can I learn the workflow?

The Guides and Help sections explain each sector planner, including local storage and source references.

01 · Recognise the context

Start with the operating area.

The surface, soil, frequency, people and control requirements change from one space to another. Name the area before choosing a method or tool.

Classrooms

Desks, floors, teaching surfaces and shared touchpoints.

Cafeteria & kitchen

Dishwashing, food-service surfaces and kitchen soil.

Hostel & dorms

Rooms, shared facilities, linen and resident areas.

Labs & science rooms

Benches and selected controlled-use surfaces.

Washrooms

High-use student and staff sanitary areas.

General

Mixed campus-wide cleaning and housekeeping requirements.

02 · Decide what matters

Focus attention on the controls that change the outcome.

These priorities help separate the important operational constraints from background noise.

High-touch routines

Desks, counters, handles, keyboards and other frequently touched objects need repeatable cleaning routines.

Chemical management

Cleaning chemicals need controlled selection, storage, handling and staff ownership.

Different spaces, different methods

Classrooms, food areas, washrooms and labs should not be treated as one generic cleaning task.

03 · See the operating sequence

Turn standards into a visible execution loop.

Work should move through a repeatable sequence so assignments, source instructions, exceptions and handovers do not disappear between people or shifts.

Plan

Turn district or campus standards into room-type schedules for classrooms, washrooms, food areas, hostels and labs.

Inspect

Capture building, chemical-storage and maintenance issues during routine walkthroughs.

Route

Send custodial, maintenance and supply issues to the right owner with a due date.

Close

Preserve evidence, room history and handover notes so the same problem does not disappear between staff changes.

Working tool · Education

CampusClean Planner

Turn an approved campus cleaning standard into a room-type task card with ownership, frequency and closure checks. The planner organises execution; local school policy remains authoritative.

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Space type Building / zone Frequency Assigned role Approved campus standard / SOP Special note

Use only approved products, frequencies and procedures from your campus policy and source documents.

No room plan yet

Choose a campus space and provide the approved standard. The planner will structure the work into a clear room-level execution card.

Working tool · Education

SchoolWalk

Convert a facilities walkthrough observation into a trackable follow-up record with location, ownership, due date and closure evidence. SchoolWalk routes work; it does not diagnose building systems.

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Building / location Issue category Observation Attention band Responsible team / owner Due date Work order / reference

Use your campus escalation and safety process for urgent conditions. This record supports routing, ownership and closure only.

No walkthrough record yet

Capture a specific observation and accountable owner. SchoolWalk will turn it into a follow-up sequence that survives shift and staff handoffs.

04 · Diagnose the execution gap

Where good standards break during daily execution.

The recurring execution gap is fragmentation: many buildings, room types, staff roles and maintenance demands, often under tight budgets and with institutional knowledge lost through turnover.

Plan-to-building gap

A district-level policy can be too abstract for a classroom, washroom, cafeteria, hostel or lab. Each area needs its own frequency, method and ownership.

Practical response

Build a campus cleaning-plan generator that creates room-type schedules, recurring tasks and responsible roles from an approved district standard.

Preventive-to-reactive gap

EPA guidance notes that deferred maintenance increases unplanned repairs and that preventive maintenance depends on schedules, inspections, equipment lists and work-order tracking.

Practical response

Build a facilities walkthrough and preventive-maintenance tool that converts inspections into prioritized work orders with due dates and closure evidence.

Institutional-knowledge gap

EPA identifies staff turnover and poor communication as reasons schools lose knowledge about building systems and maintenance.

Practical response

Build a site playbook that stores room/equipment instructions, recurring issues, approved products, photos, service history and handover notes by building.

Chemical-control gap

Schools need controlled product selection, labels, secure storage, accessible SDS information and staff training; generic supply closets are an execution risk.

Practical response

Build a chemical-room inspection and inventory tool with product identity, SDS link, storage checks, expiry/reorder status and staff acknowledgements.

High-touch routine gap

Frequently touched desks, counters, handles, keyboards and learning items need repeatable routines, but execution varies by room and day.

Practical response

Build classroom and shared-space checklists with frequency presets, exceptions and completion visibility.

Multi-team communication gap

Facilities, teachers, administrators, contractors and custodial staff all observe different problems; issues get lost when reporting is informal.

Practical response

Build a facilities issue intake that turns teacher/staff observations into triaged custodial or maintenance work with status feedback.

Budget-to-priority gap

Maintenance is often cut when budgets tighten, so teams need a defensible way to rank work by health, safety, service impact and cost of deferral.

Practical response

Build a maintenance-priority scorer that documents why a task is urgent without pretending to replace professional facility judgement.

05 · Choose the smallest useful tool

Use a tool only when it removes a specific uncertainty.

Nova helps interpret source-aware questions, Metricon handles transparent calculations, and CheckMate compares evidence that should agree.

Nova Nova

Ask how a task, product or document applies to a specific campus area.

Open tool Metricon Dilution calculator

Turn an approved dilution into exact concentrate and water quantities.

Open tool Metricon Coverage calculator

Estimate product needed across classrooms, corridors or other measured areas.

Open tool Metricon Usage calculator

Project campus consumption and stock runway from observed use.

Open tool Metricon Cost per use

Compare working-solution product cost on a consistent basis.

Open tool CheckMate Product Check

Verify the product identity and source record before routine use.

Open tool

06 · Keep ownership clear

Different roles need the same operational picture.

Clarity improves when each person can see what they own, what they need from others and which exceptions still require action.

Custodial team

Room-level schedules, repeatable routines and clear exceptions.

Facilities manager

Walkthroughs, work orders, recurring maintenance and prioritisation.

Teachers / staff

Simple issue reporting with location, context and status feedback.

School administration

Visibility into overdue work, chemical control and resource pressure.

07 · Verify that work is moving

Measure execution, not interface activity.

Use observable operating signals. The underlying tasks, evidence and exceptions should stay inspectable instead of collapsing into an opaque score.

01Scheduled tasks completed by building
02Open facility issues by age
03Chemical-store exceptions
04Repeat issues by room or asset

Reference framework

Keep the source behind the operating rule visible.

These pages organise work; they do not replace the controlled document, facility procedure or authoritative guidance that defines the actual requirement.

Local campus standards remain authoritative

Use approved campus procedures, product labels, SDS, facility maintenance rules and applicable local requirements for the actual cleaning method and frequency.

Close the loop

Context → priority → action → evidence → accountable review.

Use the sequence to move from the real operating situation to a clear next action. Product labels, SDS, approved procedures and accountable specialist decisions remain authoritative where they apply.

Name the context

Use the smallest relevant tool

Verify the evidence and ownership