Bakeries or food factories need to keep their production facility in hygienic conditions thus floor cleaning becomes an important routine for factories . Safe and sanitary floors are crucial for these food units .Improper and insufficient cleaning can result into contaminated products .There are various floor cleaning machines or equipment to perform this job . Selection of equipment depend upon the size and availablity of manpower . For large factories we could deploy electric /gas driven floor washers and scrubbers where for smaller units we can have man driven floor cleaning equipments .
Bakeries floors gets contaminated through dust , flour dust , sugar dust , oil spillages , dough spillages , crumbs , defective s products .Movement of men and machines inside the production area also contributes to floor contamination
The conventional method of cleaning floor through mops and swipes are outdated now and we dont get results in respect of hygiene . These modern floor cleaning machines do provide easy and effective way of cleaning . Other conventional method for cleaning floor was to wash floors by water with these new cleaning equipments we can save on water . Plants normally are shut down for preventive maintenance weekly or fixed schedules thus providing operators to keep these equipments ready for operation . These equipments might have some initial capital investment but in view of special requirement for bakeries and food factory manufacturers must get these for their manufacturing unit.Industrial floor cleaning equipment is designed to increase productivity, while driving down the total cost to clean.
Following are industrial floor cleaning equipments Manual and ride on ( battery powered )
Floor Scrubbers
Floor Sweepers
Floor Sweepers - scrubbers
Vacuum cleaners
Pressure Washers
Floor Machines and Burnishers
Selection of production area floorings should be kept in mind while building construction.