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Human Behavior in Clean Rooms

22nd Dec 2015

SOS Cleanroom partners with many industries to supply them with the clean room tools they need to keep the high standards they need to maintain provide their customers with the expected quality goods. We carry TEXWIPE swabs for cleaning and sample taking, wipes of all types, cleaning solutions and garments to meet every need of every type of clean room.

Even the best tools in the world can’t keep a clean room sterile if the humans involved to practice good (meticulous?)yes clean room habits. Every small thing a person does, every action they take, can undermine or reinforce the clean room standards. We’ll review a few ways humans influence the clean room environment.

Pre-Gowning Habits

  • Employees must not wear any products that have the potential of introducing more particulates.
  • No make up is allowed at all. No fingernail polish, after shaves, or hair products are allowed. Only lotions that reduce flaking are allowed.

Movement in a Clean Room

  • Every motion a person makes send the air swirling.
  • Just sitting motionless, a person introduced 100,000 particles a minute. These particles are 0.3 microns and bigger.
  • Walking at 2 mph introduces 5 million particles a minute and at 5 mph a total of 10 million particle per minute are introduced.
  • No horseplay, or leaning on anything is allowed.
  • Personnel must not touch anything that is not work-related.

Those are just a few of the most basic regulations for clean room behavior. Every small action has to be monitored and controlled. Good clean room behavior is as essential as great clean room products like the kind SOS Clean Rooms carries. Shop today for the best clean room supplies on the market.