SASI Clean Guide -
To Choosing and Using Safer Cleaning Products
Which cleaning products are safe enough for little children? Should be easy we thought. Wrong!
Chemical analysis and green-purchasing is an area fraught with loop holes. Unlike personal care products, cleaning product manufacturers do not have to provide their full list of ingredients. There is currently no Government watch-dog to regularly check that Material Safety Data and Label warnings are written correctly.
After a year of extensive and rigorous research, The SASI Clean Guide - to Choosing and Using safer cleaning products - has been released as part of the SASI Program. We hope that this guide can be used to encourage others to invest in the safer use and selection of cleaning within other Childcare and Early Childhood centres.
The SASI Clean Guide
The guide has two complimentary sections:- The SASI Clean Guidelines
The Guidelines list the effects that cleaning can have on our health, planet and water, then links the problem with the cause, and then offers solutions. - The SASI Clean Product Guide
This includes the SASI Clean Product Criteria and SASI Clean Glossary. In this guide Products are analysed against a criteria so you can clearly see which products can be used safely.
The SASI Clean Guidelines and SASI Clean Product Guide are sample extracts from the SASI Clean Program’s educational tool kit. They can be used by anyone wishing to assess how safe and sustainable their cleaning methods are.
But if you wish to achieve lasting change in behaviour and have your organisation endorsed as SASI Clean, the SASI Clean program will support you to use these and other educational tools, with audits, training, product trialling, systems development and collaborative problem solving.
Find out how your organisation can participate in the SASI Clean Program and improve this important area of public health and environmental sustainability.