Buying a cleanroom chair? – 4 points to be considered before taking a decision

Before buying cleanroom chair here are 4 points that needs your careful consideration.

1. Certifications of the chair

   This is by far the most important point you should take into consideration. You are aware about the importance of maintaining safety and hygiene standards in a cleanroom area, it may be for the paints, clothes, benches, tools or chairs. To meet these standards, while buying a cleanroom chair you should look for a Class 5 certified cleanroom chair. This certification assures you that the chair is specifically manufactured to meet all the safety and hygiene standard requirements of a cleanroom. This certification states that the particle emission from the chair is the lowest and is safe to be used in any cleanroom area. The Class 5 certification is acclaimed by various internationally intuitions, and thus the chair with this certification will pass all the audit processes that a cleanroom area follows.

2. Ergonomic Chair

   This factor directly affects the productivity and the health of the person sitting on the chair. So, while deciding which chair to buy, you should always opt for an ergonomic chair rather than a normal cleanroom chair. Ergonomic chair is designed scientifically to provide maximum comfort, healthy posture and to provide lumber support for the person sitting. As your employees are the most important asset for the organization their health and comfort is of utmost importance, and an ergonomic chair can help you in this objective. The person who is comfortable while working will be more productive as compared to the person who isn’t comfortable.

3. Quality of the chair

   Quality is a major factor in purchase of all the products, and a cleanroom chair is no different from this. In a cleanroom area quality control is more important than in other sectors as the tests that are conducted in these areas are connected to human health, etc. Thus, you must look for the highest quality chair as it has to be used in this highly controlled environment. I would suggest you to go for a high quality branded chair, rather than going for a low quality local made chair and save a few bugs to regret later. A high quality branded chair will give you all the needed quality assurance.

4. Cost of the chair

   The last point, but the one with highest influence on the buying decision. We all want good quality and durable product, but we don’t want to spend a good amount for the product, you think on the same lines while buying a cleanroom chair. But, all I want to say is while buying a cleanroom chair don’t look at the price of the chair as a cost to your company, rather look at it as your investment in the employee health and productivity. See it as a cost for maintenance of the most valuable asset your organization – The work force.

A bonus tip, you should also consider the ESD safe properties in a cleanroom chair while taking the decision. Because of the activities in the clean room, there is a lot of static charge generated that may affect the working. So a cleanroom chair which is ESD safe will be added advantage.

In the long run all that matters to your organization is the employee health, safety and the productivity of the employees, and class 5 ergonomic cleanroom chair will help you to achieve this.

Mayur Mhaske - Marketing Communications www.messungerfi.com