Logistics operators need a cleaning partner who understands a live distribution centre: vast floors worked by ride-on scrubbers around MHE traffic, high-level racking and mezzanine dust, loading bays, plus the offices, canteen and welfare that a busy 3PL or fulfilment site relies on. OptusGlean works around your shifts on one fixed monthly contract, nationwide.
What does cleaning a logistics or distribution site cover?
A logistics site is a mixed environment. Cleaning spans warehouse floors (machine scrubbing around racking and MHE routes), loading bays and yard-facing areas, mezzanine floors and walkways, high-level racking and structural dust, and - just as importantly - the offices, transport hub, canteen, welfare and washrooms where staff spend their breaks. This page is about your premises as a logistics operator; see our floor care service for the technical method detail.
How do you clean around a 24/7 operation?
Distribution centres rarely stop, so cleaning has to slot between or around shifts and pick waves without obstructing MHE and forklift traffic. We agree traffic-management and exclusion arrangements with your operations team, schedule floor scrubbing and high-level work into the quietest windows, and keep welfare and office areas cleaned daily so productivity and hygiene hold up around the clock.
Managing warehouse floors, racking and high-level dust
Large warehouse floors are best maintained with ride-on and walk-behind scrubber-driers to control pallet debris, dust and tyre marks and keep MHE routes safe. High-level racking, steelwork and light fittings accumulate dust that is both a housekeeping and a fire-load issue; we clean these under the Work at Height Regulations hierarchy (avoid, prevent, mitigate - HSE) using the right access equipment.
Offices, canteen and welfare - the part that's easy to forget
A logistics contract is not just the shed. Transport offices, the canteen, changing rooms, washrooms and reception all need a consistent daily clean, with washroom consumables and food-area hygiene (green-coded) managed properly. Keeping these areas right supports staff retention and wellbeing in a high-turnover sector. Every OptusGlean operative is directly employed on PAYE and vetted before their first shift. We DBS-check operatives in England and Wales, and apply the equivalent PVG (Disclosure Scotland) and AccessNI checks in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Where a site involves regulated activity with children or vulnerable adults, an Enhanced DBS (currently £49.50, gov.uk) is used. We never sub-contract to unvetted labour.
Fixed monthly pricing for single sites and networks
OptusGlean prices every contract as a single fixed monthly fee paid by Direct Debit - never an hourly rate that drifts. The fee is built from the specification agreed at your free site survey, and it already accounts for the wage floor (National Living Wage £12.71/hr from April 2026, or the real Living Wage of £13.45 UK / £14.80 London where a contract requires it), employer’s NI, holiday pay, supervision, consumables, insurance and management. VAT is added at the standard 20%. For 3PLs and e-commerce operators running a national network of DCs, one agreement delivers a consistent standard and single account management across every site - instead of a different local cleaner per depot.