Hygiene & Cleaning Services Level 1
Title of Qualification:
SAQA ID: 57937 General Education and Training Certificate: Hygiene and Cleaning Level 1.
Duration of Qualification:
This programme consists of Fundamental and Elective Unit Standards and will be covered over a period of one year (see breakdown for more information).
Total Number of Credits:121
Module 1 – Personal Preparation
Module 2 – Working in Teams
Module 3 – Cleaning the Workplace
Module 4 – Workplace Safety
The primary purpose of this qualification is to develop in a learner, the foundational, practical and reflexive competencies required for a career in the Hygiene & Cleaning Services Industry.
Central to the qualification is the development of a culture of quality service and professionalism in a cleaning services environment. This qualification intends to produce cleaners who can find gainful employment in the cleaning industry.
This qualification will enable learners to access learning in a related field (e.g. Hospitality, Health Care, Wholesale and Retail, Food Production or Manufacturing etc), or a related branch
of cleaning (e.g. Industrial, Hospital, Car Wash, Dry Cleaning and Laundry, Garden Services, Aircraft Cleaning or Textile Cleaning etc.)
Who is the course intended for?
The range of typical learners will include cleaners, team leaders, supervisors, temporary or relief cleaners and emerging entrepreneurs who currently, or who aspire, to operate in the cleaning industry at large.
Learning assumed to be in place and recognition of prior learning.
As this is an NQF Level 1 qualification, and therefore the starting point of a career and of training and development in the cleaning industry, no formal learning is assumed to be in place. It is preferable however that a learner accessing this qualification has attained competence in Communication and Mathematical Literacy at ABET Level 2
or the equivalent. This qualification can be achieved wholly or in part through the Recognition of Prior Learning. RPL is particularly relevant for the recognition of knowledge and skills acquired over many years in the workplace for those already employed but who have no formal qualification. RPL will allow those persons to accumulate credits against Unit Standards in this Qualification for what they already know and can do.
Course Objectives
The successful candidate will be able to achieve the following outcomes:
1. Recognise the importance of a healthy lifestyle by accepting own responsibility for life skills and wellness including HIV/AIDS.
2. Demonstrate understanding of the application of cleaning principles according to international/world class standards and best practice.
3. Clean generalised areas using cleaning principles according to international/world class standards and best practice.
4. Clean ablution areas using cleaning principles according to international/world class standards and best practice.
5. Clean floors using cleaning principles according to international/world class standards and best practice.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply environmental awareness during the cleaning process.
