May 19, 2012

Gloves as Personal Protective Equipment: Selection Guide

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According to the Work Regulation Act 1992, every employer must provide suitable personal protective equipment (PPE) to his employees in order to ensure their safety from the possible health hazards at work, except in environments where such risks are fully controlled by other efficient means. PPE is an important requirement for safety concerns but not the prime one. This is often considered as the ‘last safety resort’ when other methods of safety do not work efficiently. So, PPE features the lowest in the hierarchy of safety control measures, such as protective work environment and technical control of situations. In some cases, gloves as personal protective … [Read more...]

Disposable Apparel for Preventing Contamination

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A super clean environment is the first requirement of every laboratory or operating room. If the personnel carrying out the operations are exposed to any dangerous particles in the process or the product and process in the operating room come in contact with any human contaminants, both can be harmful for each other. Disposable protective apparel is, therefore, mandatory to provide a barrier between these two. Seam Technique for Disposable Apparel Special kinds of seam techniques are used for sewing these garments in order to avoid the passage of particles inside or outside the apparel. There are particularly three kinds of seams: Interlocked stitching: Two … [Read more...]

Cleanroom Sticky Mats: 3 Important Adhesive Characteristics

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Mats are an important requirement of cleanrooms and other critical environments that demand a high degree of contamination control. These mats have strong adhesive properties which collect dust particles from shoe soles and wheels of the carts passing over the mat. Multi-layered adhesive mats are used to peel off the contaminated layer and reveal a new clean layer to significantly reduce traffic-borne particles. A special kind of Acrylic adhesive is used on these mats which does not sustain any microbial growth. Use of Mats in Various Applications Not only in clean rooms and laboratories, matting applications are used in a number of industries to ensure a clean … [Read more...]

Cleanroom Documentation and Paper Products

cleanroom writing

Regular paper that is used in offices is generally made of wood. This kind of paper is not suitable for use in cleanrooms, where a high degree of cleanliness and hygiene is required. The reason for this is the numerous particles contained in normal paper, which contaminate the controlled environment of these labs. Clean room paper is made from polypropylene and is coated with latex in order to minimize the particles in paper. Stationery Products Used in Cleanrooms Various apparatus manuals, forms, notebooks, binders and a variety of other products are required in a cleanroom for the purpose of noting down daily activities and important information. Spiral … [Read more...]

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