Food Processing - Arla Foods
Having switched to GlassGuard BlackBand® fragment retention lamps, Engineering Manager Dale Blunt at Arla Foods milk processing facility in Ashby de la Zouch explains how the change has impacted on the plant.
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"We had an issue in the past, inside one of the filler cabinets where a light fitting exploded and we weren't at the time using the GlassGuard BlackBand® shatterproof tubes. We had to have the filler down for 12 hours to do a really thorough clean, just to make sure that there was no possibility of contamination. Just off that single filler, the down time period was about a £12,000 to £14,000 loss in production. By using the GlassGuard® tubes, that risk is now taken away completely.
The GlassGuard BlackBand® shatterproof coated tubes, even in accidents, contain the glass within an outer coating, so from a product contamination point of view, for us, it's essential that we use them. Even though we've got the diffusers fitted, during periods when we're doing a lamp change the exposure and risk is significantly higher to the product, so by using the coated tubes the risk is reduced to the point where it is controlled. We are audited on a regular basis, externally by our customers, who recognise the BlackBand® on the GlassGuard® tubes are the industry standard for glass fragment retention"
Dale Blunt - Engineering Manager, Arla Foods
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GlassGuard BlackBand® fragment retention lamps are important for a variety of businesses. Any type of production or packaging facility cannot afford machinery down time to clean up broken glass. Public areas such as schools and sport centres cannot risk injury to members of the public due to broken glass and in today's tough economic climate everyone wants value for money. By complying to the latest Fragment Retention Lamp Standard (BS EN 61549), GlassGuard BlackBand® fragment retention lamps offer better longer performance. Offering 20,000 hours of service life, these lamps require less maintenance and provide far less risk for businesses and are easily recognised for health and safety auditing thanks to the BlackBand® marker.
