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Food and Beverage - PPE
The complete recipe for PPE, Hygiene and Contamination
The complete recipe for PPE, Hygiene and Contamination
Within food & drink manufacturing, PPE protects the workers and ensures the products being produced are free from contamination. At RS, we have a complete range of head-to-toe personal protection, combined with metal detectable and hygiene management options to help protect what matters. Further to this, keeping your environment is paramount so we've brought together various ranges to support with Hygiene and Contamination Control within the Food and Beverage industry - so you've got all the right ingredients in one place.
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Food & Beverage PPE
Producing food and beverages that are safe to consume requires keeping the industry’s workers safe. Learn about the types of food and beverage industry PPE and the regulations governing them.
Means of cleaning and maintaining machines and production
Subject to strict hygiene, health and safety rules, food companies must implement maintenance, cleaning and disinfection solutions for their manufacturing equipment and storage facilities to ensure the optimal quality of their products and avoid any risk of infection or contamination.
How to Ensure Worker and Food Safety
The agri-food industry, faced with many challenges - increased flexibility of production tools, changes in consumption patterns and customer expectations, preservation of the environment - must also meet unprecedented requirements in terms of food safety, employees and consumers throughout the food production chain.
Food Standards: PPE, Premises, Industrial Equipment
In the agri-food sector, compliance with standards is imperative to guarantee food safety and product quality. To protect consumers, but also employees, the agri-food industry is subject to various international standards. The ISO 22000, ISO 9001 and ISO 14000 standards are essential references in this area.
Explore our PPE Range
In food manufacturing, PPE helps protect production staff from injury and ensures the products being made are contamination free. Explore our full range of head-to-toe protective equipment, developed with the food and beverage industry front of mind.
Hand Protection
Whether you need disposable or reusable gloves, we have a wide range of styles and sizes to suit, with different types and levels of protection.
Foot Protection
Comfort as well as safety is a key consideration when protecting your feet, as you can be on them all day, and we have lots to choose from.
Hearing Protection
From ear plugs with or without cord to ear defenders with or without communication, we have the right solution for you.
Hair Nets & Beard Snoods
Hair covering is an essential part of working in the food industry and hair on the head and face needs to be covered to maintain compliance.
Respiratory Protection
From face coverings and disposable masks to filtering masks and breathing apparatus, we can help keep you fully protected and compliant.
Eye Protection
Protecting your eyes is vitally important and we have a wide range of styles, including ones with prescription to suit all your requirements.
Workwear
From t-shirts and trousers to coats and hazardous coveralls; we can keep you covered whatever the weather or application.
Disposable Clothing
Stopping food contamination from the people working in the environment is vital and our range of disposable clothing can help you do just that. View Range
Explore our Hygiene and Contamination Range
Keeping the production environment clean is a battle. Ensuring the cleaning processes don't cause problems to machinery is yet another headache. We have the solutions for managing spills, cleaning the working areas, as well as durable, reliable parts that will make sure the production equipment can stand up to the challenges of washdown.
Hygiene Product and Solution Guide
Clean up with our choice of hygiene products and solutions.
Food Safe Cleaning & Lubrication
NSF registered products have been tested independently for safe use in the food industry. The NSF category denotes where they can be used.
Hygienic Cleaning
Keep your environment clean & contamination free with our range of coloured mops, buckets, brushes & squeegees for different areas of use.
Washdown Protected
Ensure your production line is protected from stringent washdown procedures, with stainless and high IP rated hardware, sensors, switches and more.
Metal Detectable Cable Ties
From HellermannTyton and RS PRO, these blue ties are easy to spot, and every single part of the cable tie is detectable, even if trimmed.
SKF VP311 Series Bearings
Pre-lubricated with food-safe grease, these ball bearings are low-maintenance and have a long service life even in heavy load environments.