---
title: "Free Cleaning Audit Templates (Excel) | ICS Cleaning"
url: https://ics-cleaning.com/tools/cleaning-audit-templates
description: "Free BICSc-based cleaning audit templates in Excel for schools, offices, shops, warehouses and food sites. Upload straight into your inspection app."
lang: en-GB
---

01482 226570 info@ics-cleaning.com Yorkshire & Lincolnshire

Free download

# Cleaning Audit Templates

Ready-made cleaning quality audits for schools and commercial buildings, as Excel files you can upload straight to your inspection app.

Free • BICSc outcome standards • 10 building types

Choose a template

Every template includes

- A check for every element in every area
- What Good looks like for each check
- Smart cleaning scoring: on completion or between cleans
- Critical hygiene items weighted double
- Score, pass or fail and sign-off
- One sheet, ready to upload to an inspection app

## Choose your template

Each template uses a typical layout for that type of building. Enter your details once and every template unlocks.

### Schools and colleges

Cleaned 5 days a week in term time. Holiday deep cleaning is checked separately.

#### Nursery and pre-school

5 days a week (term time) · 56 checks · 11 critical

- Classrooms & teaching rooms
- Offices & staff rooms
- Toilets, changing & showers
- Corridors, stairs, entrances & lifts
- and 2 more areas

#### Primary school

#### Secondary school and academy

5 days a week (term time) · 86 checks · 19 critical

- Classrooms & teaching rooms
- Workrooms, labs & workshops
- Food technology
- Offices & staff rooms
- and 5 more areas

#### Special school

#### College and university

### Commercial buildings

Cleaned all year round, on the days shown.

#### Offices

5 days a week · 70 checks · 15 critical

- Open-plan offices
- Meeting rooms and private offices
- Toilets, changing rooms and showers
- Stairs, entrances and lifts
- and 3 more areas

#### Retail (non-food)

7 days a week · 64 checks · 12 critical

- Sales floor
- Offices
- Toilets, changing rooms and showers
- Stairs, entrances, lifts and escalators
- and 3 more areas

#### Retail (food)

7 days a week · 67 checks · 12 critical

- Sales floor
- Offices
- Toilets, changing rooms and showers
- Stairs, entrances, lifts and escalators
- and 4 more areas

#### Industrial (non-food)

5 days a week · 85 checks · 13 critical

- Production areas
- Warehouse and loading bay
- Offices
- Meeting rooms
- and 5 more areas

#### Industrial (food)

6 days a week · 87 checks · 17 critical

- Food production areas
- Warehouse and loading bay
- Offices
- Meeting rooms
- and 5 more areas

## How to use it

1

### Download

Choose your type of building and download the Excel template. Add your site name if you like.

2

### Upload to your app

Most inspection apps can create a template from an Excel file. Upload it as it is, then check the response types and add any actions, for example when an item is Poor.

3

### Audit and score

Walk each area and score every check. The score, pass or fail and sign-off sit at the end.

### Smart cleaning scoring

Items cleaned every day are judged on completion. Items cleaned less often are judged against the between-cleans standard, unless the audit falls on their cleaning day, so nothing is marked Poor on a day it wasn't due. Critical hygiene items, such as toilets, sanitary fittings and food areas, count double, and a Poor on any of them needs action the same day.

### Want one for your own building?

The specification builders make the audit from your own rooms and frequencies. If you have fewer hours than the BICSc standard, they fit the specification to your hours and set the scoring to match.

School builder: https://ics-cleaning.com/tools/cleaning-specification-builder

Commercial builder: https://ics-cleaning.com/tools/commercial-cleaning-specification-builder

## Questions

One row per check, set out by area: the item to check, the response (Good, Acceptable, Poor or N/A), what Good looks like, which standard to score against, a weight, whether it is critical and how often the item is cleaned. It starts with the audit details and ends with a summary, a score and sign-off.

Would you rather we handled it? ICS Cleaning provides fully managed cleaning with regular quality audits and reporting included. Get in touch (https://ics-cleaning.com/Contact).

Call us: 01482226570
Request a Quote: https://ics-cleaning.com/Contact?type=quote

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