Category: Personnel & Cleanroom Behavior
Many controlled environments contain more than one level of cleanliness. Personnel, materials, and products may need to move between areas with different ISO classifications throughout the day. This creates opportunities for particles and other contaminants to travel with them. Preventing cross-contamination between these zones requires more than filtration alone. Airflow, pressure relationships, personnel movement, material […]
Maintaining ISO compliance in a cleanroom isn’t just about equipment, airflow design, or filtration systems. Even the most well-designed cleanroom can fail to meet ISO 14644 standards if staff are not properly trained in cleanroom protocol. In fact, human activity is traditionally one of the largest sources of contamination in any controlled environment. Understanding how […]
Maintaining stringent standards for a controlled cleanroom environment requires a commitment to staff training as well as regular inspections. Unfortunately, there can be a number of challenges involved when people work within the environment and equipment can malfunction as well. Put simply, things can go wrong. Let’s go through some common cleanroom hazards to rectify […]
In a previous blog about cleanroom walls, we discussed the potential to add more walls within a cleanroom. When a space requires a separate room or defined area, such as a gowning room or an anteroom, a qualified cleanroom supplier can adjust the modular cleanroom system to accommodate that need. If you’re in the early […]
When we think of common cleanroom contaminants, what comes to mind is dust, lint, fibers, and a variety of other particulate matter. Yet how do those contaminants enter the cleanroom? It’s not by osmosis – the airtight walls prevent that. People are the most common source of contamination. They bring it with them when they […]
Cleanrooms are designed to prevent contamination and maintain cleanliness to specification. However, every time a person enters a cleanroom environment, that is a new opportunity to introduce contaminants. Because it’s necessary to avoid any preventable threat, there are rules about which materials are allowed within the cleanroom environment and which should never be present within […]