FEATURE
A BARRIER TO SAFETY
A-Safe discuss how every product in the hygiene logistics trail must contribute to overall health and safety and explain why safety barriers should not compromise facility hygiene.
Dust, debris, dirt – the deadly 3Ds for those working environments where cleanliness is most certainly next to godliness.
In food and drink factories, cosmetics manufacturing, health-focused facilities or pharmaceutical environments, the constant drive for improved hygiene goes right alongside ever-better product purity and quality. This means that every product application within that working environment must adhere – and contribute to – the strictest demands of hygiene.
The Society of Food Hygiene and Technology states: “Poor equipment design may lead to an unacceptable build-up of debris or by allowing untreated ingredients to accumulate to a level at which they may cross contaminate the processed food.”
Fear of contamination is a constant threat – one that could potentially
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cause a full-scale shutdown of an entire facility and heavy loss of reputation – so products that are fit-for-purpose, but also contribute to the hygienic demands of a facility, are essential. The right products are also a way to monitor those deadly 3Ds and keep them in check.
Add, then, to those perilous 3Ds the Food Standard Agency’s (FSA) number one hygiene problem in food manufacturing: moisture.
Wetted zones encourage bacteria, including the Contamination Alert’s most frequent unwelcome visitor, listeria. Good food and drink manufacturing practice will involve the cleaning of lines and areas for about one-third of every 24-hour cycle. Therefore, products with a water-resistant tolerance to the necessities of the wipe-down and the jet-wash are also essential
HOW CAN SAFETY
BARRIERS HELP? In the past, the barriers used in sensitive environments had the potential to cause more problems than they solved. Take a steel barrier: when brand new it is strong, shiny and aesthetically pleasing. But over time it will corrode, it will flake, it will become abrasive and untidy-looking. Add a watery wash- down to the steel mix and, of course, you have a fast track to rust and a hazardous new contamination threat to a sensitive environment.
Polymer-based barriers solved the rust problem over a decade ago. They were wipe-clean, non-toxic and chemically-resistant, so boosted industries where steel barriers were almost too problematic to deal with.
The polymer barriers had instant appeal and real success. However
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