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.