On your guard

Glass is one of the most dangerous
potential contaminants, but with
fluorescent lamps all across factories,
packaging plants, public buildings
and even as component parts in
machinery, shattered glass can be
common. Diffusers are used in most
situations to prevent contamination
from lamps shattering, but simple
lamp maintenance times are the most
dangerous for glass contamination.

As soon as the diffuser is removed to
change a lamp, the glass is exposed.

For this reason the Arla Foods
milk processing facility in Ashby de
la Zouch has switched to using
GlassGuard fragment retention
lamps.

The GlassGuard shatterproof
coated tubes contain the glass within
an outer coating, even in accidents,
taking that risk away.