Volume V, Issue 1
January 2008
The winter, 2008 edition of “Clean Source” includes technical and regulatory education. In “Grease III - The Blob,” we explain how to avoid “gotchas” with water-soluble lubricants. In “The Physics of Cleaning,” we show how understanding Hansen parameters can help optimize your critical cleaning process. If you are involved with California manufacturing, read about AB 515. If you are involved with manufacturing outside of California, read about AB 515. Our low-cost workshops make learning about cleaning fun and productive. Read about our upcoming courses in California.
What Happens in California…
…
very often happens in other places. So, please read “AB 515 No, Independent
Cal/OSHA Yes,” in this issue. Want to learn more about AB 515, community
exposure, worker exposure, and the new Cal/OSHA PEL process? Go to SQRC,
our non-profit organization, and check the “Green Files” Newsletters
http://www.sqrc.org/Newsletter%201/Newsletter%20page.html
http://www.sqrc.org/Newsletter%20Archive/Newsletter%20Archive.html
It’s important for worker safety; it’s important for business.
BFK Solutions LLC Workshops – Cleaning is Cool in California
A small investment in our workshops yields huge practical benefits in quality,
product yield, cost containment, competitive stance, and regulatory compliance.
Plus, you have fun while you learn. We would love to have you participate.
Contact us for more details, or to discuss a customized workshop.
San Diego, CA, March 17
“I CAN’T USE THAT?” Profitable
Manufacturing and Maintenance in a Challenging Regulatory Environment
Marriott Coronado Island
If you are responsible for or support critical fabrication, assembly, or
repair in manufacturing, field, or depot-related operations, this workshop
is a must. Cleaning processes, fabrication steps, and repair operations
are all restricted by safety and environmental regulations. The right cleaning
processes are essential for mission-critical, high-value end-use, and customer-driven
applications. This fast-paced, practical workshop gives you the skills & knowledge
you need to contain costs, achieve high quality and maintain a favorable
competitive stance.
Topics include: how cleaning processes work in the real world, case studies
(good & bad), how regulatory trends (safety and environmental) impact
your choices (aqueous, solvent, bio-based and non-chemical processes) reducing/eliminating
HAP’s, VOC’s, and the carbon footprint. Pick the “green
chemistries” and “green processes” that work. Avoid choices
that result in chronic yield problems and dissatisfied customers.
Designers, engineers, technicians, health and safety personnel and regulatory
people will all benefit from this compelling and practical 3 1⁄2
hour workshop, 1:00pm to 4:30pm, Monday March 17, 2008, sponsored by the
18th Annual Cleaner, Sustainable Industrial Materials & Process (C.S.I.M.P)
Conference.
Whether you are new to the field or have been involved for many years,
you will find this acclaimed workshop to be well worth your time. Technology
has changed; the regulations have changed – learn about your best
options for today from Barbara and Ed Kanegsberg (the “Cleaning Lady
and the Rocket Scientist”). The workshop is open to non-CSIMP attendees
as well. For details see http://www.exchangemonitor.com/calendar.htm
UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA, March 11
The Cleaning Lady and the Rocket Scientist, Barbara Kanegsberg and
Ed Kanegsberg of BFK Solutions LLC, will teach “Cleaning
Validation and Contamination Control in Manufacture of High Technology
Products, Medical Devices, and
Precision Instruments.” The goal of the comprehensive one-day
course, is to provide practical options for critical cleaning and contamination
control to manufacturers of critical devices, high technology products,
medical devices, micro/nano devices, aerospace components, and pharmaceuticals.
Topics include understanding and selecting cleaning agents, ultrasonics,
and cleaning processes, cleaning process validation, cGMP, FDA requirements,
aerospace requirements, and minimizing product residue and corrosion.
The
instructors are independent consultants who provide practical, competitive
cleaning options and education/training programs for manufacturers
of high-value product. The course is scheduled for March 11, 2008 at
the Southern California
Education and Research Center (ERC) at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA). For online information and registration, go to
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/erc/cleaning-3-08.htm; or call 310-206-2304.
MD&M, Los Angeles, California
Barbara Kanegsberg will present “Developing/Validating Critical Cleaning
Protocols and Optimizing Surface Quality for Medical Devices.” The
presentation is part of Session 303, Chemical Characterization of
Materials, a one-day workshop chaired by David Albert of NAMSA, January
30, 2007.
Link:http://www.devicelink.com/expo/west08/conference_303.html
Principles of Industrial Hygiene, California State University, Dominguez
Hills
Jim Unmack and Joe Kukla will present a comprehensive course in two
parts designed for the practicing industrial hygienist and the health
and safety
professional desiring to advance their careers. Jim and Joe are well-respected,
experienced industrial hygienists who actively and productively work
with industry. Jim is a member of the Cal/OSHA HEAC, part of the
PEL process.
The courses begin Saturday January 26 and continue through the spring.
To register and for more information, contact CSUDH College of Extended
and International Education at 310-243-3741, Jim Unmack at 310-422-4340,
or Joe Kukla at 310-322-9280.
AB 515 No, Independent Cal/OSHA Yes
Barbara Kanegsberg
AB 515 – Bad for Workers; Bad for Industry; Bad for California
AB 515 would result in very low quantitative worker exposure numbers
(Permissible Exposure Limits, or PEL’s) that are legally enforceable throughout
California. AB 515 would require that OEHHA risk factors be used as the basis
for worker exposure limits. OEHHA (the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment), develops community-based risk factors; the chemicals included
under Proposition 65 are based on OEHHA risk assessments. The OEHHA-based
PEL’s will be inappropriately and unrealistically low. Estimates are
that exposure levels for many common chemicals could be lowered by 100 fold
or more, because OEHHA risk factors are based on community safety, not worker
safety.
I will explain why AB 515 is the wrong approach and why a strong, independent
Cal/OSHA PEL process is a better approach. Then, I’ll give you steps
you can take to make California safer for workers; and help California’s
economy to flourish.
The Physics of Cleaning, Part 5: Hansen Solubility Parameters
Ed Kanegsberg
Why do we use solvents? We can easily see or visualize the brute force
of a cleaning system. Forces like the mechanical agitation of a high-pressure
spray nozzle can remove soil from a surface, no matter what liquid is
used. However, to get real power, real efficiency, real profits
in cleaning,
you have to understand solvency. Solvency provides a powerful, customizable
vector to the cleaning process. Understanding the power of the Hansen
parameters yield information you need to design your best cleaning
system.
Grease III (not even close to the musical)
The Blob Returns, A Study In Horror
Barbara Kanegsberg
Rejoicing pervaded the Fabrication Facility. All the machine shops had
switched over to water-soluble lubricants. Rejoicing extended to
final assembly and
to all industrial and critical cleaning processes. Rejoicing swept over
all Sub-Contractors and Suppliers, because it was decreed from Corporate
that
Sub-Contractors, too, were to use water-soluble lubricants. All problems
were solved – no worker exposure problems, no environmental issues,
no assembly issues. Suddenly, a dark, ominous cloud appeared over Corporate,
prompted by an even more ominous Blob on the assembled product.
