cleaner

Classifiers Filled

Family

Thing Registry

Category

Society, people and institutions

Entry kind

thing

Plane

SOC

Domain

SOC.PER

Other names and narrower kinds

janitor, street sweeper, kisbíró, kidoban, Sadin Al-Kaaba, school janitor, property manager, building superintendent, kyrkvaktmästare, school cleaner, crime scene cleaner, auto detailer

What it is Filled

A worker who cleans buildings, streets, vehicles and public spaces, including janitors and school janitors who maintain facilities, street sweepers, and specialised roles in hospitals and industry, often low-paid and outsourced work with occupational hazards from chemicals, sharp waste and musculoskeletal strain; the registry aliases also include kisbiro, the historical Hungarian village crier and minor official, Sadin al-Kaaba, the hereditary custodianship of the Kaaba in Mecca held by the Banu Shaiba family, and kidoban, which could not be verified, so these appear misfiled or uncertain. Labour rights campaigns such as Justice for Janitors have sought better pay and conditions, and debates are attributed.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent explain cleaners, relay roles, conditions, hazards and labour rights from occupational health and labour sources with debates attributed, describe the named roles and flag misfiled and unverified aliases, and distinguish cleaners from caretakers or building managers, sanitation workers in waste collection, domestic workers and custodians in the ceremonial sense.

Distinguishing features Filled

• Manual cleaning work
• Often outsourced
• Chemical and injury hazards
• Essential services

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

• Monitor cleaners' movements or performance beyond what their contract and the law allow.
• Assign a cleaner to hazardous areas without the training and protective equipment the task needs.
• Record or share cleaners' images or personal data without consent.
• Use automated ratings to cut a cleaner's pay or shifts without human review.

Only with a human decision

• Disciplining, dismissing or changing a cleaner's hours or pay.

May

• Schedule and coordinate cleaning work with the people who do it and the site that employs them.
• Provide cleaners with safety information about chemicals, sharps and infection risks on a site.
• Report unsafe conditions a cleaner has flagged, such as spills, broken equipment or exposure.

Moral aspects Filled

• Cleaning is essential, low-paid and often outsourced work whose workers are easily overlooked or exploited.
• Cleaners face chemical, biological and injury hazards that others create.

Who is affected

• Cleaners and their families
• Building users who rely on hygiene
• Agency and migrant workers

Owners Filled

Steward

The cleaner's employer, whether the site owner or a contracted cleaning firm.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

• Q33394058 - registry parent class

related

• manual worker - in registry terms
• janitor
• waste collector
• Banu Shaiba - misfiled alias

Sources Filled

1. Wikidata item Q1760141: cleaner - identity and sense of the item
2. Wikipedia: Cleaner - general description of the item

Open questions

• The registry aliases kisbiro and Sadin al-Kaaba should be moved to their own entries
• The registry alias kidoban could not be verified and should be reviewed
• How should labour rights sources be linked?

Machine files

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1760141/spec.json