All manufacturers must ensure that their facilities are sanitary. If they do not, there is a risk that their employees may become ill or that the goods they manufacture may become contaminated. Here are two things that a manufacturer should do to ensure that their facility remains sanitary.
1. Fit PVC strip curtains in the facility's doorways
Flies, mosquitoes and other winged insects will often enter a manufacturing facility when its doors are opened by employees and clients. This can make the facility quite unsanitary. Flies, for example, often have traces of animal excrement on their legs (as they tend to lay their eggs in animal excrement). Even tiny amounts of this waste could contain thousands upon thousands of harmful bacteria, including E.coli.
As such, if they get into a facility and fly onto a conveyor line that is being used to transport consumable materials (like medicine or food, for example), they could transfer the bacteria from their legs onto these items, and in doing so, make these products unsafe for the manufacturer's customers to consume. Similarly, mosquitoes are known carriers of several diseases, including dengue virus and certain types of encephalitis. As such, if a mosquito enters a manufacturing facility and then bites an employee, that individual could develop a very serious illness.
Fortunately, fitting PVC strip curtains on the doors of a manufacturing facility can help to reduce the number of potentially harmful winged insects that fly into the building, as the strips will obstruct the movement of any flies, mosquitoes or other creatures that try to pass through them. These strip curtains will also enable employees to come and go without having to spend time shutting doors when they exit or enter through them, to prevent insects from getting inside.
2. Ask specific staff members to check the hand-washing stations
The presence of hand-washing stations in a manufacturing facility can go a long way towards keeping the facility clean and sanitary. If employees can easily wash and disinfect their hands after touching contaminants, they will be far less likely to transfer dangerous pathogens from their hands to their mouths (and become ill) or from their hands to the facility's products.
However, hand-washing stations can only help to make a facility more sanitary if they are kept in good condition. If the taps are rarely disinfected, and the soap dispensers are left empty for days on end, employees will not be able to wash their hands thoroughly when they use them. This could then increase the risk of them making themselves ill when they next eat or contaminating the facility's materials with pathogens when they handle them.
As such, it is important for manufacturers to assign the task of checking the hand-washing stations to specific staff members; these individuals can ensure that the stations are clean and that there are plenty of supplies of soap, paper towels and hand sanitiser available at all times.