Clarification on total space that needs to be audited

If there are less than 5 spaces of any type, you must audit all spaces of that type. If there are more than 5 of any type of space you should audit 10% of the spaces or 5 spaces, whichever is larger. If more than 5 spaces, audit 10% of the number of spaces. If your randomly selected 10% of the spaces do not equal at least 10% of the total area of that space type, add additional spaces until you also reach 10% of the area of that type.

While I realize that the table 9 on page 436 takes the approach that has been suggested above, the text on page 435 states something very different. STEP 2 states, " APPA requires that rooms equivalent to at least 10% of each space type AND 10% of total floor area cleaned by audited. For any space type with fewer than 5 rooms, include all 5 rooms in the audit." 1) it doesn't say for any space type where 10% is fewer than 5 rooms as the table and your advice states. 2) To suggest that the standard is where 10% is less than 5 then that would require auditing of all spaces where there are up to 50 spaces - this seems unreasonable especially if the SF is well above 10% of the total. 3) I realize that the LOL table is set up to calculate 10% of the number of spaces, as well as 10% of the total space category and 10% of the total cleaned SF so it is not helpful in guiding you to the correct pathway. The interpretation of whether 10% being less than 5 as the metric is not reasonable and contradicts the actual text in the RG.

Peter- it's not where 10% is less than 5 that you have to do all of the spaces, it's where there are less than 5 spaces total. If, as in your example, there are 50 spaces, simply audit 5 spaces. If there are 40 spaces, you would still audit 5, because 5 is larger than 4, which is 10%.