Footwear in High Risk
Hello, we have a high risk facility in which dedicated footwear (wellingtons) are assigned to personnel and no other footwear can be used in this area. Personnel pass through a boot wash device that is dosed with a chlorinated solution and it also scrubs the footwear. I've been told by an audit that wet wash systems (even chlorinated ones) are not ideal and a lot of the industry is moving away from them. Does anyone have any similar experience with this? Thanks, Danny
Hello
Is all about what kind of product are you producing? Are you in a wet or dry zone?
Hi
It is cooked crustaceans and it is a wet area. Which is why I was surprised to hear that wet boot wash systems should not be used if possible.
The footwear is captive to the area as well.
I will tell you that those washes are NOTORIOUS for introducing a hazard where none was i.e. the units themselves are not cleaned and/or titrations are not done regularly so they become a cesspool. I cannot begin to tell you the horrors I have seen in some of these units
Are you cleaning the units and testing titrations on a regular basis?
Having said of that...................you would probably find a floor foaming unit just, if not more effective for less $$ long term with a much smaller foot print OR granular quat that goes into trays that employees must walk through
Take this as a suggestion or recommendation from your auditor. If he/she didn't slap you with a non-conformity, you're fine!