What price your health and safety?

We are in the middle of a Federal election campaign and all parties come forward with every dirty little secret. A cameraman who used a toilet, found an overflowing sharps container with used needles. OK, this is an OH&S issue. We all visit or use hospitals....

come on down Hugo!

Clean Queens had our first home birth! I was at a clients’ home dealing with another issue completely, when suddenly baby Hugo decided it was time to make his presence felt!Surprised? So was new mum Anna,

In the line of body-fluids

Remember the collision between a Sydney ferry and a pleasure cruiser on Sydney Harbour back on 28 March 2007? There were 12 people on the cruiser, from the Australian and international skating fraternity and their families. Four were killed. There were horrific...

Duty of care

Duty of care comes in all shapes and sizes. The other day, I attended a NSW Police Local Area Command to clean up wet blood in the back of a police truck. The story was: two Constables had attended a call-out about a stray dog. The big tan Labrador had...

1800CrossInfection

Last week, I attended a very busy commonly used Government building. Lots of staff in nicely pressed uniforms! Members of the public moving through public and controlled space. In the midst of everything, I watched a cleaner attend to an infectious body fluids spill....