Big Blue Blog - Contamination Control and the Effect of Staff
BlogCleanroom07.11.2019
A correctly designed and functioning cleanroom is extremely efficient in controlling contamination when at rest. In most operational instances however, people are required to be present in the room to carry out production processes.
The presence of staff poses a major contamination control challenge to the cleanroom as people produce large numbers of both inert and viable particles with 80% of the contamination found within most operational cleanrooms estimated to be produced by the occupants.
This “people contamination” comes from two main sources.
