Controlling Contamination within the Cleanroom

Course details

Cleanroom personnel, when working in cleanrooms for long periods of time, can often become complacent in their working habits. This can be greatly improved by providing personnel with a better understanding of contamination, how it can enter a cleanroom and its impact on the process and products. This up-skilling/re-skilling of personnel with the relevant skills, awareness and knowledge will greatly help them to take ownership of their role within the cleanroom and the products they produce, with a specific focus on controlling and minimising the risk of contamination.

The aim of this programme is to give delegates a better understanding & heightened awareness as to how they and the various cleanroom processes they perform, can significantly contribute to contamination levels.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this training course, delegates should be able to:

• Understand why cleanrooms are required for manufacturing.
• Understand what ‘contamination’ of the cleanroom means.
• Identify & understand the different types of contamination within the cleanroom and the levels of criticality.
• Understand what cleanroom classification is.
• Recognise the impact and effects should contamination enter the cleanroom.
• Appreciate how the cleanroom functions to minimise contamination.
• Understand the need for such strict procedures regarding cleanroom policies & behaviours.
• Identify what are and are not acceptable behaviours in the cleanroom.
• Understand the function of cleanroom garb.
• Perform effective hand-washing.
• Perform cleaning of their bench surfaces & equipment effectively.
• Transfer materials into the cleanroom effectively.
• Understand why the cleanroom is monitored and the different types of microbial monitoring that is performed in the cleanroom and on product.

Course Programme

The programme offers the participants from different backgrounds, an opportunity to work together in exploring challenges, solving problems and finding solutions to issues that are relevant to all businesses that have a cleanroom environment.

• Overview of Cleanrooms & Contamination
• Cleanroom Air Systems
• Cleanroom Clothing & Gowning Practices
• Effective Handwashing Practices
• Cleanroom Policies & Behaviours
• Effective Material Transfer Processes
• Effective cleaning of surfaces and cleanroom equipment
• Environmental & Product Monitoring of the Cleanroom
• Assessment
• Feedback

The training programme is very interactive, constantly encourages feedback from the participants and applies different training methods and styles to deliver the key messages e.g. discussions, group activities, demonstrations and practical exercises. There is an assessment on completion of the programme in which a pass mark of 60% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of successful completion.