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Posted 04 March 2021 - 09:04 AM

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


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Posted 04 March 2021 - 12:53 PM

Hello

 

Is all about what kind of product are you producing? Are you in a wet or dry zone?


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Posted 04 March 2021 - 01:20 PM

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.


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Posted 04 March 2021 - 02:25 PM

Contact the auditor and request proof of the statement - the outcome should be interesting and whybwe never listen to "suggestions etc" by auditors.


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Posted 04 March 2021 - 03:57 PM

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


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Posted 04 March 2021 - 04:41 PM

Take this as a suggestion or recommendation from your auditor. If he/she didn't slap you with a non-conformity, you're fine!


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