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Room Health & Cleaning Checklist

A monthly cleaning and safety checklist for one room, with a box for each week (1–5) beside every task — surfaces, floors, windows, furniture, toys, rest areas and storage, then fire, electrical, first aid and hazardous-materials checks.

Format: Printable PDF · A4
Pages: 3 (one set per room, per month)
Best for: Room staff · directors
Updated: Sept 2026

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What’s inside

Cleaning tasks and safety checks, marked off week by week

Room, month and year headerOne set of sheets covers one room for one month.
Week 1–5 columnsA colour-coded box for each week beside every task.
Cleaning tasksSurfaces, floors, windows and glass, furniture, toys, light and ventilation, rest areas, and storage.
Toy-cleaning methodLarge toys and shelving with a 100ppm bleach solution; bucket toys by the 3-step method — warm soapy water, rinse, then 2 minutes in 100ppm bleach solution and air dry.
Safety checksFire safety, electrical safety, first aid kit, hazardous materials, and furniture and fixtures.

How to use it

Four steps to put it to work this week

1
Post it in the roomFill in the room, month and year, then put it inside a cupboard door at adult height, with a pen attached.
2
Mark the week’s box as you goTick or initial the box when the task is done, not at the end of the week — the point is to know what has actually been done.
3
Share the tasks across the teamAssign the deep-clean items so they are not always the closer’s job.
4
File the completed sheetsInspectors and public health may ask for several months of records.

Tips from operators

What centers that use this well do differently

Learned the hard way across 3,000 child care spaces — and from the directors and educators who join our Lunch & Learns and Learning Labs.

Check contact time, not just spraying

Most sanitisers need to sit for a stated time — the checklist’s bleach step specifies 2 minutes. Wiping immediately does not sanitise.

Keep a ‘mouthed toys’ bin

In infant and toddler rooms, a bin for toys that go straight to sanitising beats trying to remember which ones.

Photograph the completed sheet

A phone photo at the end of each week is a cheap backup if the paper goes missing.

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