The Advantages of Using Space Containment Services and How it Increases Productivity and Safety

At Kaloutas, we believe that con­duct­ing a suc­cess­ful com­mer­cial or indus­tri­al project is con­tin­gent on what we dub ​“the three C’s”: com­mu­ni­ca­tion, coor­di­na­tion, and con­tain­ment. If one of these fac­tors is miss­ing from the equa­tion, prob­lems are bound to arise. A lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion opens the door to acci­dents and mis­un­der­stand­ings; a fail­ure to prop­er­ly coor­di­nate tasks can slow down or even halt pro­duc­tion; and neglect­ing to con­tain cer­tain projects can cause dis­trac­tions, F.O.D, safe­ty haz­ards, and var­i­ous forms of damage.

Let’s dive deep­er into this third ​“C,” con­tain­ment, out­lin­ing how uti­liz­ing space con­tain­ment ser­vices can increase a facility’s pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and safety.

What to Know About Con­tain­ment Services

What Is Meant by Space Containment?

As its name sug­gests, space con­tain­ment refers to var­i­ous strate­gies aimed at par­tial­ly or com­plete­ly enclos­ing a work area in order to pre­vent cer­tain objects, debris, and con­t­a­m­i­nants from escap­ing or enter­ing the con­tain­ment bar­ri­er sys­tem. Con­tain­ment also pro­vides an out­stand­ing ​“sight­line man­age­ment sys­tem” for your employ­ees while work is being per­formed in pro­duc­tion areas. At Kaloutas, we offer a num­ber of space con­tain­ment strate­gies opti­mized for spe­cif­ic projects and cir­cum­stances. For instance, we pro­vide floor to ceil­ing con­tain­ment (where­in we hang and move ​“walls” of 4‑mil fire-retar­dant plas­tic as we progress through a facil­i­ty) and for­eign object debris/​damage (FOD) pre­ven­tion/​containment, always fol­low­ing OSHA, ISO, and GMP reg­u­la­tions. Should your employ­ees require pas­sage through the space to enter oth­er areas, we will build con­tain­ment hall­ways for them. Sim­ply put, our teams have the equip­ment and exper­tise to prop­er­ly iso­late vir­tu­al­ly any work area that war­rants this treatment.

Advan­tages of Using Space Con­tain­ment Services

The advan­tages of space con­tain­ment might be some­what self-explana­to­ry, and we’ve already touched on some of them in our descrip­tion above. Still, it’s worth pro­vid­ing fur­ther details regard­ing the ben­e­fits of iso­lat­ing a work area.

Main­tain­ing Steady Pro­duc­tion Schedules

Halt­ing or mere­ly slow­ing down pro­duc­tion can be extreme­ly cost­ly for many facil­i­ties. At the same time, how­ev­er, fail­ing to per­form rou­tine facil­i­ty main­te­nance can result in an even cost­lier long-term prob­lems. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, this main­te­nance work often inter­feres with pro­duc­tion, cre­at­ing a chal­leng­ing trade-off. By iso­lat­ing key areas, how­ev­er, space con­tain­ment ser­vices help reduce the fric­tion between pro­duc­tion process­es and sched­uled main­te­nance. As our teams work to main­tain and/​or enhance your facil­i­ty, the sur­round­ing areas will remain clear, acces­si­ble, and oper­a­tional. In oth­er words, prop­er space con­tain­ment elim­i­nates the need to com­plete­ly shut down a facil­i­ty dur­ing sched­uled maintenance.

Min­i­miz­ing Mess and Distractions

Main­tain­ing your facility’s pro­duc­tiv­i­ty isn’t mere­ly a mat­ter of keep­ing it acces­si­ble — dis­trac­tions (both tan­gi­ble and intan­gi­ble) can also slow down oper­a­tions. When a work area is wide open, there is noth­ing to obstruct cer­tain sights, sounds, and splat­ters. These dis­tur­bances might seem mild at face val­ue, but over time they can inter­fere with nor­mal work­flow. Our space con­tain­ment ser­vices take these poten­tial dis­trac­tions into con­sid­er­a­tion and mit­i­gate them as much as pos­si­ble so every­thing stays on schedule.

Max­i­miz­ing Work­place Safety

The dis­trac­tions out­lined above can cer­tain­ly inter­rupt oper­a­tions. More impor­tant­ly, how­ev­er, these dis­trac­tions can become safe­ty haz­ards. Loud work envi­ron­ments can become dan­ger­ous as they pre­vent com­mu­ni­ca­tion and cut off key audio cues. Visu­al dis­trac­tions can also lead some­one to col­lide with oth­ers and objects or slip and fall. And, of course, splat­ter­ing mate­ri­als and fly­ing debris can put peo­ple in harm’s way. Indus­tri­al con­tain­ment, then, is a key com­po­nent of work­place safe­ty, pre­vent­ing poten­tial haz­ards from leak­ing out into the work­place or enter­ing the iso­lat­ed work area.

Con­tain­ing For­eign Object Debris (F.O.D.)

In any man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty, it is cru­cial to have a for­eign object debris con­trol pro­ce­dure in place. Aero­space man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties, for instance, must take F.O.D. seri­ous­ly at every stage of the process, as some­thing as small as a rogue bolt, nail, or screw can jam mov­ing parts, short-cir­cuit elec­tri­cal com­po­nents, tan­gle up con­trol cables, and more. Not only is F.O.D. a safe­ty haz­ard, then — it’s also a major lia­bil­i­ty, poten­tial­ly cost­ing a man­u­fac­tur­er major sums in repair fees. Space con­tain­ment ser­vices pre­vent mate­ri­als from the inside from get­ting out and mate­ri­als from the out­side get­ting in, great­ly reduc­ing the risk of F.O.D. and relat­ed issues.

Sur­round Your­self with Expert Space Con­tain­ment Services

Through our space con­tain­ment ser­vices, Kaloutas has helped count­less com­mer­cial and indus­tri­al facil­i­ties main­tain and enhance their work­places while pri­or­i­tiz­ing safe­ty and retain­ing their flow of pro­duc­tion. To learn more about us and all that we do, con­tact us online or give us a call at 978−532−1414.