Understanding how to monitor and properly maintain your clean room environment is essential to ensure optimal performance.

Used in laboratories and other settings where a controlled environment is necessary, permanent or modular clean rooms vary in size, complexity and use.

However, one thing is the same across all industries: Keeping a room contaminate free requires proper procedures put into place to maintain a stringent level of cleanliness.

Your clean room’s layout plays an important role in maintaining clean room standards. That’s because every piece of furniture or equipment can interrupt air flow and cause contamination.

And, because workers can be the largest contamination source in a space, maintaining a clean layout is critical to reducing this risk.

While during the design process of your clean room, you likely took into account placement of doors and pathways, as well as how many access points you should have (one is ideal). You probably also considered furniture placement that allows for proper airflow and the type of furniture you want to incorporate.

It’s important to maintain the same high level of quality in each piece you bring into a clean room, from the surfaces you work on, to the chairs you sit in.

If you’re working in an environment where static electricity is a concern, for example, furniture pieces such as ESD chairs are essential to maintain a clean environment.