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Practical health and safety information for cleaners, caretakers and facilities managers.
Designed and written as a practical workplace training and reference tool. This 170-page pocket guide is filled with clear-language text including safety tips, charts, diagrams, checklists and illustrations.
The guide will help custodial service workers, health and safety committee members and representatives as well as supervisors, managers, engineers, and health and safety professionals to:
This guide is a practical source of workplace health and safety relating to custodial work. It is the collaborative work of occupational health and safety experts, peer-reviewed by government health and safety authorities, representatives of workers and employers, and specialists in the field of custodial work.
The Custodial Workers’ Safety Guide is intended as a reference for cleaners, caretakers, facilities managers, and anyone who works full-time, part-time or on contract in a building’s custodial department.
Each publication produced by CCOHS undergoes several stages of review. As part of this review, representatives from government, employers, and labour are requested to comment on draft copies of CCOHS documents for technical accuracy and readability.
Although every effort is made to ensure accuracy and completeness of the information, it is understood that CCOHS makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of such information and assumes no liability for any damages or loss suffered as a result of any inaccuracy or incompleteness therein.
CCOHS publications are unique in that they are developed by subject specialists in the field, and reviewed by representatives from labour, employers and government to ensure the content and approach are unbiased and credible.
Although our publications are protected by copyright, permission for non-commercial reproduction may be provided.
Please use our Copyright Authorization Form to request permission, or contact us for more information.