WIPES, MOPS & MICROFIBRES
Right Place Right Time
If your wipers are in the wrong place – maybe too far away from employees, or somewhere where they are vulnerable to contamination – it may cost your company dearly in manpower or wasted wipers. Rachel Thompson from Tork manufacturer SCA helps you decide where to put your wipers for maximum convenience and productivity.
It makes perfect sense for anyone working in an office to have their phone, computer and pen placed on their desk in front of them.
Imagine how much productive time would be lost if staff had to share one communal pen or computer. This would entail employees having to go hunting around for these items whenever they were needed.
Similarly in industrial environments, it tends to be the case that operatives have all the tools of their trade within easy reach of the bay or cubicle in which they work. But this does not always apply to wipers.
Industrial wipers are often considered to be of peripheral importance in a workshop or factory. But the need for a wiper suddenly becomes urgent when there is a major spill of oil or cutting fluid, or when the operative’s hands become so greasy that they need to be cleaned before tackling the next task.
In many industrial environments the wiper supply will consist of one centrally-placed wiping roll on a floorstand, or maybe one or two loose rolls of paper dotted around the premises for everyone to share. But such solutions can be surprisingly expensive both in terms of lost productive time and wasted wiper.
Where loose wiper rolls are supplied, some will go missing: either because
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they have been mislaid, pilfered or allowed to roll on to the floor. They may also become contaminated by dust, dirt, solvent and other substances in the industrial workplace which means that some will inevitably have to be thrown away.
A large, centrally-placed wiper roll may be the answer in a small or medium-sized workshop where the operatives work closely together and where wipers are only required for general applications such as hand- cleaning and mopping up light spills.
But in a larger plant where wipers are required for a range of tasks, a multipurpose roll in the middle of the building would be a bad idea for a number of reasons.
For one, there may be a long walk involved from some of the operatives’ work bays to the centrally-placed wiper roll. If the operative uses an average of, say, 20 wipers a day but has to spend six minutes sourcing each wiper, by the end of the day the company will have lost two man- hours. Multiply that by the number of operatives in your company and it soon becomes clear that entire days and even weeks may be spent fetching wipers.
Where specialist wiping tasks need to be carried out – perhaps involving cleaning with solvents, or polishing delicate surfaces – a multipurpose
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