GOLD COAST CLEANS UP IN THE AFL
RULE one of entertaining guests at home: you should always spend at least a few minutes cleaning up before they arrive.
Just maybe don’t spend 82 hours on it.
Meet the unsung heroes who are set to spend more than 80 hours, 22 before the first bounce and 60 after the final siren, ensuring Metricon Stadium is spotless as the Gold Coast prepares to host four interstate AFL sides to reboot the footy season, starting tomorrow.
The West Coast Eagles, Fremantle Dockers, Port
Adelaide and the Adelaide Crows have all joined the Suns on the glitter strip due to strict border regulations in their own states, preventing fly-in fly-out travel.
Seven games will be played on the Coast across the first month of the rebooted season, a number of weekend and same-day doubleheaders, meaning contracted cleaners Quayclean will be working around the clock to keep the venue spotless and COVID-19 free.
A team of cleaners will also be conducting rotational cleaning of all occupied areas of venues while games are in progress.
Quayclean’s staff will be cleaning and disinfecting areas and surfaces including team changing rooms, coaches rooms and interchange benches, umpires rooms, media conference rooms, tables and chairs.
The media facilities including broadcast areas, desks and chairs, lifts, handrails, doorknobs, support ledges, toilets, light switches, phones, fridges, taps, stadium equipment control areas and equipment, photocopiers and printers will also be cleaned.
Quayclean CEO Mark Piwkowski said his staff have undergone special training to ensure the venues are safe for players, officials, media and stadium event-day staff.
“Staff will use World Health Organisation approved, hospital-grade cleaning and disinfectant products,” he said.
“The purpose of the cleaning and disinfection process is to remove viral contamination from environmental surfaces and equipment surfaces to eliminate transmission of the virus from these surfaces.”