Hygiene is a set of practices and rules designed to preserve or improve health. Good hygiene helps prevent the risk of infection and the spread of infectious disease. In the industrial sector, we also speak of food hygiene. This term covers a whole range of actions designed to preserve the foodstuffs placed on the market. They must not be altered by micro-organisms due to a lack of hygiene. Food and consumer safety will always be a major issue for manufacturers. But what is the cost of hygiene? What solutions can guarantee continuous hygiene at the lowest possible cost? Your flooring specialist and expert has the answers.
Why is hygiene important in industry?
The food industry is an ideal environment for the proliferation of bacteria. Indeed, some manufacturers have faced health crises caused by bacteria. This was the case in 2013, when a major food brand marketed breaded fish contaminated by bacteria, or the crisis that affected a manufacturer of powdered baby milk. There have been many crises over the years. To avoid a food scandal, food and consumer safety have been reinforced to limit the risk of contamination in this world where machines and humans work together.
Each department and workstation has its own strict hygiene and cleaning protocol. Food industry employees receive in-house training in cleaning their work areas and in the hygiene rules to be adopted. In addition, standards such as HACCP, BRC and IFS legislation are applied in the industries to control manufacturing processes and food safety. Cleaning plans and procedures are made available to teams, indicating the various measures to be put in place to ensure the ongoing cleanliness of their work areas. Quality, safety and hygiene audits are carried out on a regular basis to check compliance with standards, and the cleanliness of the industry's departments: cold storage, production, storage, transport and also the conservation of raw materials and finished products.
How much does hygiene cost manufacturers?
The implementation of protocols, standards, training and cleaning of equipment, machines and floors represents a substantial annual cost for industry. Having an in-house cleaning and disinfection department, or calling in a company specialized in cleaning industrial sites, will not only cost you money, but also time and organization. That's why it's important to optimize your resources and your time, to gain in speed and efficiency.
That's why it's so important to optimize your resources and time, so you can work faster and more efficiently. That's why there are innovative, cost-effective solutions that enable you to benefit from precise, regular cleaning to avoid product contamination and health scandals.
ProfilGate mats: the low-cost solution for optimum hygiene
As stated above, hygiene is an essential factor in the smooth running of your industry. Toensure constant hygiene of workstations, but above all of floors, an innovative solution has been launched on the industrial matting market. It's important to understand, first and foremost, that floors are one of the first places where bacteria can appear. Proliferation takes place when the floor comes into contact with the soles, wheels, pallet pullers and vehicles circulating in the factory. The ProfilGate solution has been developed in response to this problem, and to keep floors clean from one area to another.
The ProfilGate is a protective and hygiene-maintaining device. It is made up of brush strips which remove 90% of dirt from the soles, wheels or tires. This floor covering is generally installed either inside or outside driveways. Economical and environmentally friendly, you'll have a choice of several ProfilGate models, depending on the area where you want to place it.
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