Solar Panel Cleaning Health & Safety – Our Approach
Solar Cleaning Health and Safety | Clean Solar Solutions America
We set the benchmark for solar panel cleaning health and safety, combining specialist training, documented risk controls, and a safety-led culture across every job we deliver.
Every CSSA technician is trained to an advanced level through the International Solar Cleaning Academy (ISCA) and holds role-specific, tiered certifications aligned to the tasks they perform. With 14 years’ solar panel cleaning experience and a management team bringing 50+ years of working-at-height and exterior cleaning expertise, we apply proven field knowledge—not generic policy—to real-world solar sites. Our leadership has also co-authored solar best-practice guidance used across 20+ countries, bringing international standards into day-to-day U.S. operations.
Our approach to solar panel cleaning health and safety is practical and evidence-based. We operate with OSHA-aligned safe systems of work, issue task-appropriate PPE, and implement site-specific Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs) for commercial projects. This ensures consistent control of the most common risks in solar cleaning, including working at height, slips and falls, fragile surfaces, manual handling, and live electrical hazards associated with photovoltaic systems.
This safety-first framework enables CSSA to deliver compliant cleaning across utility-scale ground-mount solar farms, commercial rooftops, and residential properties—without compromising workmanship or efficiency. Wherever feasible, we design methods that eliminate the need to walk on roofs, reducing both personal risk and the likelihood of roof disturbance. When roof access is required, we use the safest practicable access methods and disciplined controls to complete the work with minimal risk to people and property.
Solar Cleaning Health & Safety – Working at Height Controls and Roof Access Methods
Clean Solar Solutions America applies robust working at height controls and roof access methods as a core part of our solar panel cleaning health and safety system. We operate to the relevant OSHA requirements for the work environment (including 29 CFR 1910 where applicable) and ensure all field personnel are trained and competent in safe access, fall prevention, and rescue-aware working practices.
We prioritize the safest practicable access option for each site. Our teams are IPAF-trained for the safe operation of boom lifts/MEWPs and can deploy mobile tower scaffolds where this provides safer, more stable access. When roof work is unavoidable, we implement formal controls such as pre-use equipment inspections, controlled access/egress, exclusion zones below, and correctly selected fall protection—using harness and lanyard systems only where appropriate and supported by suitable anchor/attachment points and a task-specific plan.
ISCA-Trained Technicians and Tiered Certifications
Every Clean Solar Solutions America team member—field-based and office-based—is trained through the International Solar Cleaning Academy (ISCA) under a tiered competency structure. This ensures our organisation maintains a consistent, informed approach to solar panel cleaning health and safety, with particular emphasis on the unique hazards presented by photovoltaic systems.
A central element of ISCA training is electrical hazard awareness. Solar arrays can present live DC risk in normal operating conditions, and our technicians are trained to recognise high-risk scenarios, apply safe methods of work, and escalate concerns appropriately. Importantly, our office team also completes ISCA training so that quoting, job planning, documentation, and supervision are built around real-world site hazards—rather than generic assumptions.
Whether we are cleaning solar panels, planning access, or producing site-specific JHAs, electrical risk control is treated as non-negotiable. We support this with robust equipment standards and investment in task-appropriate PPE for our field teams, selected to match the risk profile of the work and to provide maximum practicable protection for personnel operating around live PV infrastructure.
Our Class-Leading Solar Panel Cleaning JHAs
Clean Solar Solutions America delivers every project under a structured solar panel cleaning health and safety framework informed by international best practice for both solar cleaning and solar O&M activities. A key component of this system is our site-specific Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), developed to be practical, comprehensive, and directly relevant to the conditions on each client site.
Our JHAs are designed to capture the real-world hazards associated with solar panel cleaning and to define clear mitigation measures and safety controls before work begins. Depending on the site and scope, these typically address working at height, electrical hazard awareness, safe roof access and egress, environmental conditions (heat, wind, storms, UV exposure), manual handling, slips, trips and falls, and respiratory considerations (dust and airborne contaminants), alongside additional controls appropriate to the specific array type and location.
Because members of our leadership team teach solar panel cleaning safety internationally, our documentation and on-site practices are built around what actually prevents incidents—not box-ticking. The result is a disciplined, repeatable approach that supports safe delivery, improves consistency across crews, and provides clients with confidence that risk is being actively managed on every job.
Solar Array Design Consultancy
As the U.S. solar market scales rapidly, many systems are designed and installed under tight timelines. The unintended consequence is that some arrays are commissioned with limited consideration for long-term operations and maintenance (O&M)—particularly safe access, safe movement on roofs, and the clearances needed to maintain and clean the system efficiently. Over time, these design shortcomings can increase cost, restrict safe working methods, and elevate solar panel cleaning health and safety risk.
Clean Solar Solutions America provides a Solar Design O&M Review service to help installers, EPCs, and system designers verify that proposed layouts are truly O&M-friendly and support safe, compliant maintenance throughout the asset life. We assess practical factors such as roof access and egress routes, safe navigation pathways, maintenance clearances around arrays and equipment, and realistic servicing methods—so the system can be maintained without unnecessary exposure, disruption, or avoidable expense.
In parallel, CSSA also delivers solar array fire risk assessment services. We evaluate design and site conditions that can contribute to elevated fire risk over time—such as maintenance constraints, heat and debris accumulation points, cable routing exposure, component accessibility for inspection, and operational practices that influence defect detection and rectification. The outcome is a clear, practical set of risk observations and recommendations that can be applied at the design stage or retrospectively on existing systems to improve maintainability and reduce foreseeable fire-related vulnerabilities.
If you are designing, installing, or managing a solar asset and want to reduce long-term maintenance risk, improve serviceability, and strengthen fire risk controls, contact CSSA to discuss the appropriate level of review and assessment for your project.