Hygiene and Cleaning NQF1

Hygiene and Cleaning NQF1

On achieving this qualification, the learner will be able to:

  • Recognise the importance of a healthy lifestyle by accepting responsibility for life skills and wellness
  • Demonstrate understanding of the application of cleaning principles according to recommended standards and best practice.
  • Clean generalised areas using cleaning principles according to international/world class standards and best practice.
  • Clean ablution areas using cleaning principles according to international/world class standards and best practice.
  • Clean floors using cleaning principles according to international/world class standards and best practice.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of and apply environmental awareness during the cleaning process.

WHO IS IT FOR?

  • General Cleaner
  • Laundry assistant
  • Room attendant
  • Ward hostess
  • Domestic worker
  • Contract cleaning supervisor
  • Engage in a range of speaking/signing and listening interactions for a variety of purposes
  • Explore and use a variety of strategies to learn
  • Write/sign for a variety of different purposes
  • Practice good health and grooming habits
  • Demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute towards healthy living
  • Manage personal finances
  • Analyse cultural products and processes as representations of shape, space and time
  • Collect, analyse, use and communicate numerical data
  • Describe and represent objectives and the environment in terms of shape, space, time and motion
  • Use maps to access and communicate information concerning routes, location and direction
  • Critically analyse how mathematics is used in social, political and economic relations
  • Provide good customer service in a cleaning services environment
  • Participate effectively in a team or group
  • Portray a professional image within a cleaning team
  • Read/view and respond to a range of text types
  • Understand basic cleaning principles
  • Use chemicals in the cleaning services environment
  • Working with numbers in various contexts
  • Demonstrate an understanding of and use the numbering system
  • Identify and process waste
  • Clean above the floor surfaces
  • Clean windows
  • Vacuum dry surfaces
  • Remove spots and spillages from carpets and upholstery
  • Sweep floors
  • Wet mop floors
  • Clean floors using a single disc machine
  • Clean kitchens
  • Clean toilets and bathrooms