Orbit Cleaning Services Australia

Name: Orbit Cleaning Services Australia
Address: 19/15 Earsdon Street, Melbourne Victoria, Yarraville, VIC, 3013, AU
Telephone: +611300660699

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Orbit Cleaning Service is a leading national cleaning company with over 36 years of industry experience. Think Clean, Think Orbit.

Orbit has been operating for over 32 years providing excellence and quality service to clients some of those include hospitals, medical facilities, food manufacturers , commercial buildings, offices and builders cleans. We ensure that your premises exceed hygiene and safety standards, sparkling presentation and meets certification requirements. We use the latest processes, equipment and materials to ensure that we clean your facility thoroughly and efficiently. These include swab testing, ATP testing, and our in-house auditing system to ensure the highest standards are met. Our services include all types of cleaning, from the shiny floors of shopping centers to the board rooms of corporate buildings, billboards and exterior windows, graffiti removal to cleaning of machinery in factories. Many clients require a pre-audit clean, we give immense importance to keeping your business alive , securing you and your employers future also preventing millions of dollars in losses with our diligence, experience and attention to detail. There's nothing more professional than being in spotless clean premises, this reflects on your business / company and we are dedicated to delivering the most exceptional service to ensure that we go beyond our clients expectations and needs.

28/10/2026

Every white surface in this photo is getting cleaned.

Every surface that isn't white, isn't.

That's the real reason we use foam. It shows you exactly where the chemical is.

→ Production is finished and the room is clear. No product, no packaging, nobody else on the line. Cleaning and production never share a room.
→ He's working from the floor, with a lance long enough to reach. No climbing on equipment to get coverage.
→ Look past the line. The guard cage, the legs, the pallet jack. Anything that lives in the room gets the same coverage.
→ Foam goes on from the bottom up, so the whole surface is covered before it starts to run. The rinse comes off from the top down, so nothing runs back onto steel that's already been rinsed.
→ In between, it stands for 15 to 20 minutes before scrubbing, so the chemistry has time to work.

A bare patch of steel at this stage is a patch the chemical never touched. Foam makes it impossible to miss.

What's the one thing on your site that never seems to get foamed?

22/10/2026

Would you trust a delivery crate that's been rinsed, but never actually sanitised?

Most people wouldn't think to ask the question. Here's what's actually happening in this video, and why every step matters.

Foam isn't decorative. It's a delivery mechanism. Foam clings to vertical and uneven plastic surfaces far longer than liquid does, giving the detergent inside it real contact time, the single factor that determines whether a chemical actually breaks down residue or just sits on top of it.

Dwell time is the part nearly everyone skips. A detergent needs minutes, not seconds, to disrupt organic material and any biofilm forming in the ridges and seams of a plastic crate. Rinse too early, and you've cleaned the appearance, not the surface.

Full coverage means every crate, not just the visible ones. A stack cleaned inconsistently is a stack with hidden risk sitting one layer down, indistinguishable from the rest once it's dry.

Only after that dwell time does rinsing happen, removing the now-broken-down residue instead of just redistributing it.

Full PPE throughout, because a solution effective enough to sanitise plastic at industrial scale is not something skin should be exposed to for a full shift.

These crates cycle constantly, from delivery to facility to delivery again, and every single cycle is a fresh opportunity for cross-contamination if any one of these steps gets shortcut.

The value of this process isn't visible in the finished result. A rushed clean and a proper one can look identical once the crate is dry. The difference only shows up later, in a swab test, or worse, in what the crate carries next.

What's a process in your world where the shortcut and the proper method look exactly the same, until they don't?

20/10/2026

Everything he sprays up there comes back down on him.

That’s the part of this job nobody plans for. Overhead work is the highest exposure task on the shift, and the chemical doesn’t care which direction you pointed it.

Foam used in a food plant is strongly alkaline. It has to be. That’s what lifts fat and protein off steel.

→ Alkaline burns don’t announce themselves. An acid splash stings straight away. Caustic keeps working into the tissue, and you can be well into damage before you feel much.
→ Which is why the person who copped a splash often keeps working. Nothing hurt yet.
→ Eyes are the real risk. A splash from above comes down inside loose goggles, not at them.
→ And the bit most people have backwards. Gauntlets go over the sleeve when you’re working above your head, under it when you’re working low. Wrong way round and the run-off fills your glove.

That’s why the full waterproofs and the apron. It isn’t comfort. It’s the job.

Everyone talks about what the chemical does to the soil. Not many talk about what it does to the person holding the lance.

If you’ve done this job, you know the feeling. What’s the part of it people outside the trade never see?

16/10/2026

The worst thing you can do to this is scrub harder.

That brown layer isn't dirt. It's product that's been cooked onto steel over and over until the fats polymerised and bonded to the surface. Chemically it's a different substance from the one that went in.

Which is exactly why the instinct to attack it with a wire brush or a heavy abrasive pad is the wrong one.

Stainless is only stainless because of a microscopic chromium oxide layer sitting on the surface. Cut through that and you create problems that don't go away:

→ Every scratch is a groove. Soil settles into it, biofilm forms in it, and your swab finds it long after the visible mess is gone.
→ A damaged passive layer lets the steel corrode. Corroded steel is rougher again, holds more soil, needs more scrubbing. It compounds.
→ Use a carbon steel brush or steel wool and you embed iron particles in the surface. Those rust. On a food contact surface.
→ A panel you've scoured is permanently harder to clean than it was before you touched it.

So it's heat, the right alkaline chemistry, and patience. Not force.

I've seen good equipment aged out years early because someone used the wrong pad on it for a decade.

Anyone can make steel look clean today. The job is leaving it cleanable in five years.

What's the most scratched-up piece of gear on your site, and does anyone know how it got that way?

14/10/2026

That foam has a clock running on it.

Most people see foam and think soap. It isn't. Foam is a delivery system, and the only reason it exists is contact time.

Spray a liquid chemical onto vertical stainless and it's on the floor in seconds. It never gets the chance to break anything down. Foam clings, so the chemistry stays where the soil is for long enough to actually work.

The window is narrower than people think:

→ Too short, and you rinse off a chemical that hasn't finished. The surface looks clean and swabs dirty.
→ Too long, and the foam dries on the steel. Now you've baked the soil on and left chemical residue behind, which is a worse problem than the one you started with.
→ Warm rooms and moving air shrink the window. Look at the evaporator fans on the back wall. They run the entire time he's working.
→ So the clean gets paced to the room, not to the label on the drum.

Watch what else he's doing. He's lifted the belt to get foam underneath it. The top of a belt is the easy half.

I've seen more cleans fail on timing than on chemistry.

What's your crew's actual dwell time, and has anyone ever timed it with a watch instead of guessing?

13/10/2026

Every supervisor at Orbit started as a cleaner.

Every single one.

Our operations managers too.

That means the person checking your clean has done your clean.

They know where the hose doesn't reach.
They know which corner gets missed when the shift runs late.
They know what done actually looks like.

Training gives you the basics. The floor teaches you the rest. That's me in the photo, under the belt, passing on the rest.

It's also why our people stay with us an average of 6.5 years.

People stay where they can see a future.

Chemicals can be bought. Equipment can be bought.
A team that's done the job from the ground up can't.

Who do you know who started at the bottom and now runs the show? Tag them below 👇

12/10/2026

Before anyone cleans a food factory with Orbit, they start in a room like this.

A whiteboard. A plate of biscuits. A handout called Guide to cleaners.

Every new team member goes through a full induction and on-site training before they clean a site for us.

And it shows in who leads us today:
✅ Every one of our Supervisors and Operations Managers started as a cleaner
✅ Our people stay with us an average of 6.5 years
✅ We're family-owned and independent

Who taught you the job you do today? Give them a shout-out in the comments 👇

📞 1300 660 699 ✉️ [email protected]

Address

19/15 Earsdon Street, Melbourne Victoria
Yarraville, VIC
3013

Telephone

+611300660699

Website

https://www.orbitcleaning.com.au/

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