Cleaning verification for government and public buildings
In a public building, a clean is a restroom, a lobby, a meeting room or a service counter in a city hall, library, recreation center or transit station. CleanZ records each one to your cleaning checklist, with the steps, products, photos and the supervisor's approval, in one sealed, audit-ready record you can show the public and your auditors.
What a clean means here
- City halls and courthouses: lobbies, service counters and restrooms
- Libraries: reading rooms, restrooms and children's areas
- Recreation centers: locker rooms, gyms and pool decks
- Transit stations: waiting areas, platforms and restrooms
Who asks for proof
- The public
- Asks, sometimes at a council meeting, how often a restroom is cleaned.
- Auditors
- Want to compare what a janitorial contract delivered with what it promised.
- Elected officials and city managers
- Need facts when a complaint comes in.
- Facilities staff
- Look after many buildings and can't walk to each one every day.
How a clean becomes a record
Area marked dirty
A supervisor marks an area, or the custodian scans the tag by the restroom or meeting room door.
Checklist loads
The area picks its steps and products from your cleaning checklist or the one in your janitorial contract.
Guided steps
One step per screen, with a countdown for each disinfectant's contact time.
Proof captured
Photos where your checklist asks for them, plus exceptions such as a closed room or a damaged fixture.
Rules check
The clean can't be submitted until every required step and photo is there.
Supervisor review
The supervisor approves from a phone, without driving to the building, or sends it back with a reason.
Spot check
On a sample of areas, someone checks in person and logs the result.
Sealed record
Locked once approved. Later changes are added, never written over.
What you could save
The hours a supervisor spends checking cleans by hand, and what those hours cost. Try your own numbers.
One public building, 40 areas every weekday (minutes include travel between sites).
- 10,400 cleans a year
- 8 minutes to check one by hand
- 3.4 minutes per clean with CleanZ
- $39.26 an hour: a supervisor's mean wage of $24.03 (All industries, with the state and local government share) divided by wages' share of total pay, 61.2%
| Approach | Hours a year | Labor cost a year |
|---|---|---|
| Checking every clean by hand | about 1,387 | about $54,447 |
| With CleanZ | about 589 | about $23,140 |
| Labor saved | about 797 | about $31,307 |
Compared with checking every clean by hand. Checking only 1 in 10 by hand costs less, but leaves 9 in 10 unchecked. Labor only, before the CleanZ subscription. Example figures; your numbers will differ.
Wages: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2023: 37-1011 First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024; Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Can our own staff and a contractor use the same record?
Yes. In-house custodians and contractors follow the same checklist and add to the same record.
Our buildings are spread across the city. Does that matter?
Supervisors review each clean from a phone, so they don't need to drive to every building to check it. One view across many sites is planned, not built yet.
Can records be exported for an audit or a records request?
Yes. Every record can be exported as CSV or PDF at any time. The records are yours.
Does CleanZ store information about the public?
No. It records areas, tasks, products, staff roles and results. Nothing about visitors or residents of your city.
What does a pilot look like in a public building?
A paid 60 to 90 day pilot in one building, measured against a baseline you approve before it starts. Your IT security review can start early.
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