In the food industry, having a clean facility is a major step toward ensuring both food safety and worker safety. It’s also required for avoiding citations and fines due to lack of compliance. To help you get a better handle on the rules you’re required to follow,...
The 2008 explosion and fire at the Imperial Sugar Company in Port Wentworth, Georgia, is the best-known example of a combustible dust incident at a food manufacturing plant. And for good reason: the fire was devastating. It killed 14 people and injured 38 others....
Conversations about food safety and cleaning tend to focus on sanitation — sanitary equipment, chemical sanitizers, and so on. Industrial vacuum cleaners are more often discussed in the context of plant and worker safety, for example, combustible dust fire...
How often do you think about the combustible dust at your food processing plant? Likely not often enough. Combustible dust is often underestimated as a hazard. This oversight can be disastrous. The destructive power of combustible dust makes ongoing, consistent...
Safety. Ask any food manufacturer what’s top of mind these days, and that’s what they’ll say. While much of the emphasis is on the safety of food products (especially with the Food Safety Modernization Act coming into play), the safety of the workers who make those...
Join us at ASB BakingTech 2016 (Chicago, Feb. 28-March 1, 2016) as Nilfisk presents on topics such as how to avoid combustible dust hazards, contamination and fines. Nilfisk housekeeping experts have been at the forefront of the combustible dust issue since the...
