A cleanroom is an environment that has a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors.If you have been asked to work in one, you'll need to take the appropriate steps.Make sure to get training and instruction for the particular cleanroom you will enter, because there is no single set of rules for entering.
Step 1: Understand how the protocol works.
Any speck of dust can damage the processes inside the processor.Skin cells, clothing fibers, and loose hair are physical contaminants.Dust and tiny particles can damage delicate products built and tested in clean rooms.
Step 2: You need to know what class you're entering.
The lower the number, the cleaner the cleanroom is.
Step 3: Humans are the largest source of contamination.
Step 4: Follow the instructions given by your employer.
There are different clean room apparels.It may consist of gloves, a cap, and smock at its most basic all the way up to a full bunny suit.The instructions are general.
Step 5: You can enter a cleanroom in the morning.
Take a shower
Step 6: Don't wear makeup, hair spray, perfumes, or colognes into a room.
Step 7: Under your garb, wear appropriate attire.
Short-sleeved shirts are not appropriate for some situations.A lot of lint or static electricity can come from clothing that is fuzzy.
Step 8: On the way in, clean or change your shoes.
If there is a machine at the door, use it to change into a clean and appropriate pair of shoes for the lab environment.Put your foot and shoe in it.Hold the handle and press the button.It won't hurt your shoe, but you will feel a tug from the moving brushes.Step on it several times.
Step 9: You won't be taking personal items into the cleanroom.
If they are provided, leave them at your desk.
Step 10: You shouldn't have anything in your mouth.
Step 11: Place your gear in the correct order.
It is a good idea to use a bench to separate the "getting dressed" and "dressed" areas.On the "getting dressed" side of the bench, begin putting on your cleanroom gear.Put on a hair cover.A beard cover is needed to cover facial hair.The hood should be adjusted so it is snug and comfortable.Wear a smock or coveralls.If it's in two parts, put the jacket on first.If you are wearing one, snap it closed over the hood.To get the sleeves around your wrists, close the snaps at the cuffs.Put on shoe covers on the bench.To keep the booties from touching the ground on the "getting dressed" side of the bench, be sure to tuck pants inside of them.Automatic shoe cover dispensers are available.The appropriate substitute for those allergic to latex is latex gloves.If necessary, tape sleeves and anklets.
Step 12: Act as if you are a doctor.
Don't touch anything until you are in a sterile environment.If you have to touch something, be sure to change the glove.
Step 13: If you pass through the air shower, you should step on any additional mats as you enter.
Step 14: Whenever you work in a cleanroom, keep the protocol in mind.
When working in the cleanroom, keep your apparel on all the time.Do not bring in pencils, erasers, non-room clean paper, wood, abrasives or packaging materials.If you have to refer to it, keep it in a plastic sleeve.Use only a small amount of tape.You should be aware of what you bring in.If you bring in equipment, wipe it down.Do not remove equipment from a clean room.Slowly and evenly move.Many particles can be shed by sudden movements.
Step 15: It's a good idea to replace any worn or dirty cleanroom attire.
As you wear it, it gets dirty.Make sure you get a fresh one if you haven't done it in a while.Every time you enter, use fresh gloves, hair covers, and disposable shoe covers.You can reuse smocks, coveralls and shoes, but exchange them or have them cleaned.
Step 16: In the opposite order from where you wore the attire, remove it.
When you leave the cleanroom, remove your attire.Don't leave the room wearing or carrying attire.Put it on every time you enter and take it off when you leave.