Workwear for cleaning contractors and facilities teams

Identifiable uniform for people working in other organisations' buildings, often out of hours and unsupervised.

Cleaning and facilities staff work inside buildings that belong to someone else, frequently when nobody is around. The uniform's first job is therefore to answer, instantly and from a distance, the question of whether this person is meant to be here. That makes a clear company name more valuable than a subtle one, and it makes consistency across the whole team non-negotiable.

For contractors, the uniform is also the deliverable the client sees most often. A facilities manager renewing a contract has usually formed their view of your standards from the team's appearance long before reading the service report. Branded, consistent, replaced when it goes grey — that is the whole argument.

Practically, these garments are washed constantly and meet chemicals that fade them. Expect a shorter replacement cycle than for an office uniform, and price the contract with that in it rather than discovering it in month eight.

What this trade needs

Polo shirts
The everyday identifiable layer. Buy more per person than you think, because they are washed daily.
Tabards
Worn over the top for wet or heavy work, protecting the garment underneath.
Fleece or sweatshirt
Out-of-hours work in buildings with the heating off.
Work trousers
Hard-wearing, dark, and able to take a knee on a bathroom floor.
Hi-vis vest
For car parks, loading bays and external areas.
Occupational footwear with slip resistance
Wet floors are the hazard of the trade.

The standards that apply

These are garment standards, not site rules. A standard belongs to the individual item and its certificate — so when a garment is specified for you, the certificate is what proves it, not a line on a web page.

EN ISO 20347: Occupational footwear, including slip resistance — the relevant standard where a toe cap is not required.
EN ISO 20471: High-visibility clothing, for external and vehicle-movement areas.

Settle this before you order

How many sites and whether each needs to look the same — usually yes, for client confidence.
Replacement cycle, built into the contract price rather than absorbed later.
Whether staff work alone out of hours, which raises how prominent the company name should be.
Whether client-specific branding is ever required alongside yours.

Send us those answers and we will price it

You do not need all of them. Trade, head count and where the logo goes is enough to get a useful quote back.

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