Cleanrooms and Appropriate Notebooks

If you have never worked in a clean room, then you may be unfamiliar with its purpose, or even the term. A clean room, simply put, is one that strives to maintain a low level of environmental pollutants, including dust, chemical vapors, airborne particles, and others. These rooms are usually found in manufacturing facilities or research labs where such control is critical to the work being done. Hospitals, pharmacies and facilities dealing in life sciences are examples of where you might find such a room.

Part of the clean room’s maintenance often includes a highly developed filtration system to keep pollutants to an acceptable level. However, materials brought into a clean room can bring in pollutants. Only materials suitable for use in the environment can be brought inside, even down to pens and cleanroom notebooks.

You may not have thought about notebooks as potential sources of pollutants, but they can deposit fibers and other microbial elements that can contaminate specimens. By using only notebooks manufactured for use in this critical environment, workers can keep pollutant levels within the prescribed acceptable levels and keep their work or experiments on track.

While there are many types of clean rooms, each with its own purpose and level of acceptable pollutants, cleanroom notebooks are made to be useful in any of them. They can provide the necessary documentation for research to support ethical and legal issues. They have chemical-resistant covers and are indexed for easy retrieval of data. These notebooks are even autoclavable, making them ideal for this environment.