CM/Spotlight: Safety What The Cleaning Industry Can Learn From By: Dr. Jay Glasel Cleanrooms Standardized, consistent cleaning lends itself to various applications in the JanSan industry. for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Contamination . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select SUPPLIER SEARCH from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Cleaning . By measuring the matter present in the air and on surfaces before and after cleaning, more efficient protocols can be developed. 32 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • November 2011 Image courtesy of Kaivac Inc. Dr. Jay Glasel is the managing member and founder of Global Scientific Consulting LLC. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of Microbial, Molecular and Structural Biology at the University of Connecticut Medical/Dental School in Farmington, Connecticut. Glasel has lectured in many countries in Europe and Asia, and his scientif-ic research has been in the fields of structural biochemistry, molecular immunology, pharmacology and cell biology. Glasel is co-editor and an author for the Academic Press textbook “Introduction to Biophysical Methods for Protein and Nucleic Acid Research” and many other contributed book chapters and original scientific research articles. F For many years, I have been teaching a course on cleanroom design, operations and maintenance to classes chiefly composed of professionals from the pharmaceutical industry. At the beginning of the curriculum that deals with maintaining a cleanroom, I present a slide that states: “Almost all the aspects of running and using a cleanroom are basically the same ones we use to keep a clean private home or commer-cial working space, except they’re formalized and more rigorous.” Modern industrial cleanrooms developed from their origins in the 1960s when a requirement for dust-free working environments became neces-sary in a variety of situations that ranged from assembling military gyroscopes to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) moon landing project. The first standard for cleanrooms was pub-lished by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in 1961 (Technical Manual TO 00-25-203) and the first U.S. federal standard for cleanroom air quality (Federal Standard 209) was developed in 1963 from work at Sandia Laboratories where nuclear weapons were assembled. Since the ‘60s, cleanroom technology and methods have been adapted by many industries where contamination by particles, chemicals and microbials must be avoided.
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