PARTICULATE CONTAMINANTS: PARTICULATE CONTAMINANTS

Over the course of your career, you’ll face a wide variety of working environments. Some will be extremely sensitive to the slightest contamination, and you’ll need to carefully 'decontaminate' yourself in several stages. Others, such as a controlled work area, will be much less demanding.

The level of cleanliness depends on just how dangerous the threat of contamination is to the task you’re doing. To understand that threat, let’s take a look at what we mean by the term ‘Particulate Contaminant’.

Montage of various workers in bunnysuits.
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