A HEPA filter guy’s perspective on the little machine sitting in your living room I’ve spent a large part of my career working in some of the cleanest and most controlled environments you can imagine. Hospitals. Pharmaceutical facilities. Research laboratories. Biological safety cabinets. Cleanrooms where airborne particle concentrations are measured, airflow is carefully controlled, pressure relationships matter, and HEPA filters are tested to verify that they are actually p

If the only time you open your certification report is when an auditor asks for it...you're leaving one of your facility's best management tools sitting in a digital filing cabinet. Let's be honest. For many pharmacies, laboratories, hospitals, and cleanroom facilities, certification reports have a pretty predictable life cycle. The technician performs the certification. The report arrives by email. Someone saves it to a folder. Everyone forgets it exists... ...until an audit

If you've ever heard the words "We're being audited next week," you probably know the feeling. Suddenly everyone starts asking questions. "Where's the cleaning log?" "Do we have all the training records?" "Has everyone completed their competency assessments?" "Where's the certification report?" An audit can involve many different areas of a pharmacy—from personnel training and policies to documentation, environmental monitoring, cleaning procedures, and quality assurance prog