CONTROL & DESIGN STANDARDS: MONITORING

Monitoring of just how clean surface areas are is accomplished by using ‘witness plates’ (steel plates, glass slides, or mirrors). Strategically located throughout the room, these surfaces are allowed to accumulate contaminants for a preset period of time and then are analyzed for contaminants. Any particles found are significant, since those same contaminants can probably also be found throughout the entire room.
Image of one square foot witness plate with particles.
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