Those who operate food manufacturing plants should ensure that their premises are fitted with commercial air conditioning units. Here are two reasons why.
To ensure the staff do not perspire excessively
Even in relatively mild climates, the staff in food manufacturing plants can still perspire quite a bit. Especially if their work tasks involve, for example, lifting heavy bags of ingredients, having to perform quick movements for hours at a time whilst working on ingredient assembly lines or performing maintenance on industrial-sized food preparation equipment.
It is very important for those who run these manufacturing plants to fit commercial air conditioning units that will maintain a pleasantly cool room temperature so that even when the employees are doing these physically demanding tasks, they won't perspire too much.
This is critical in a food manufacturing plant. For example, if an employee at an ingredient assembly line is sweating profusely, due to the relatively warm room temperature and the energetic work they're doing, and the perspiration on their face drips onto the assembly line itself or directly onto some ingredients, the assembly line's conveyor belt would need to be disinfected and the ingredients discarded to manage this contamination issue.
Likewise, if a person is doing maintenance on, for instance, an industrial-sized food mixer, and their face or body is perspiring, some of this perspiration may be transferred to the interior of the equipment, in which case it would need to be cleaned before it could be used again.
If, however, there is a cool breeze being emitted by one of the plant's nearby air conditioning units, employees who do this work will be less likely to overheat and inadvertently cause these issues.
To counteract the rise in room temperature caused by the plant's machinery
Most food manufacturing plants use equipment that produces heat either as a by-product of being used; this may include commercial ovens, microwaves, gas hobs and fryers. As such, even if a manufacturing plant is based in a place with a cool climate, its interior temperatures could still rise very high throughout an average workday.
This could not only cause the above-mentioned perspiration issues but could also increase the rate at which bacteria grows on perishable ingredients that employees need to transfer from one section of the plant to another before they can refrigerate or freeze them.
This, in turn, could result in the spoilage of these ingredients and the contamination of any products they're used to create. In this setting, the presence of commercial air conditioning units could counteract the temperature spikes caused by the plant's equipment and thus keep the room temperature at a safe level, where bacteria growth on perishable ingredients does not happen too quickly.
Contact a commercial air conditioning service near you for more information.