Laboratory Bench Hygiene
Hygiene is always essential in a lab environment, where work is conducted around sensitive materials, controlled experimentation, and testing. Effective laboratory bench hygiene ensures that your lab maintains its own standards, as well as the criteria of any clients. Consider these suggestions on maximizing hygiene in your lab environment, focusing on lab bench hygiene.
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Disinfect With Bleach Germicidal Wipes
Consider placing multiple bleach-infused germicidal wipes containers on or near every lab bench. This will encourage frequent mini-cleanups and remind workers of the importance of laboratory bench hygiene. Regular use of these wipes by lab workers can help to maintain a sterile surface in between commercial cleaning appointments. Thus, enhancing lab bench hygiene further.
Keep the Air Pure
In a lab where caustic or noxious fumes may be formed, the air should be cleaned as well. Install fume hoods as needed over relevant workstations. These should be specially designed to work against things like radioisotopes, acidic vapors, and fumes. This is part of maintaining overall laboratory bench hygiene. It ensures that air quality does not compromise lab bench hygiene, providing potent secondary protection for your workers beyond personal headgear.
Make Shoe Cover Booties Mandatory
A multitude of bacteria is commonly transports indoors on the bottoms of shoes. To reduce the dirt and bacteria on lab floors, consider making the wearing of shoe cover booties mandatory for anyone entering the lab. This one simple practice will greatly diminish the number of contaminants introduced into the lab from outside sources. Thus, helping maintain lab bench hygiene.
Use Modern Lab Casework and Cabinets With Internal Hinges
Another often-overlooked source of bacteria is on cabinet hinges. Traditional hinges are rife with dirt accumulation and bacteria. This is for the simple reason that they are located on the outside of cabinet doors.
It’s impossible to thoroughly sterilize them. It is even more impossible to put them back together if you tried to disassemble them for cleaning. All of OnePointe Solutions’ lab casework and cabinetry feature concealed inside the doors. This keeps hinges clean and free of dirt and bacteria. Thus, contributing to improving laboratory bench hygiene and ensuring to not compromise hygiene in overlooked areas.
Maximizing hygiene in your lab is a combination of keeping contaminants out, regular sterilizing and cleaning, extracting air-borne contaminants, and considering every detail where bacteria can hide. Our lab designers can help you design an optimal laboratory. They can supply easy-to-clean lab benches to ensure a hygienic work environment.
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