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81.22
Class
Other building and industrial cleaning activities
SDMX: O8122
Class Level
4 Depth
0 Children
2 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This class includes: - exterior cleaning of buildings of all types (e.g. offices, factories, shops, schools and other institutions, other business and professional premises, multi-unit residential buildings) - specialised cleaning activities for businesses in food industries, including manufacturing, retail sale, restaurants, etc. - specialised cleaning activities for buildings (e.g. facade and window cleaning, chimney cleaning and cleaning of fireplaces, stoves, furnaces, incinerators, boilers, ventilation ducts and exhaust units) - specialised industrial cleaning (e.g. cleaning of industrial machinery) - cleaning of water supply pipelines - cleaning of aeraulic ducts - other specialised building and industrial cleaning activities n.e.c. - cleaning of new buildings immediately after construction - steam cleaning, sandblasting and similar activities for building exteriors

Who is this code for?

Verified: SEMANTIC_SECTION_MATRIX
Common titles: Cleaner, Janitor

Receptionists

SOC 2020:4216
Common titles: Receptionist, Front desk

Evidence: Representative SOC 2020 occupations for SIC Section N (Other building and industrial cleaning activities).

Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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