Industrial laundry

A guest laundry is a service company or an organizational unit in an enterprise, in the washed and reprocessed all washable fabrics, by definition, in contrast to chemical cleaning, cleaning in non-washable fabrics.

If it is in the laundry not an organizational unit within a company ( eg Hospital ), one also speaks of a commercial laundry, industrial laundry and industrial laundry.

A commercial laundry provides basically a service (transport and laundering fabrics ), but required for the provision of that service a high energy demand and an elaborate machinery, which one could call as a production operation. Due to the cost structure of a laundry this has probably held a hybrid position between services and manufacturing company. The second concerns the locations of the logistical resources to service a commercial laundry supply.

Apprenticeship in a laundry

The professional profile associated training profession is that of the textile cleaner / in.

After finishing school education lasts 3 years, at medium maturity or high school shortening is possible. Content of training is textile department, textile cleaning technology, work technology, environment & hygiene, customer contact and consultancy as well as business transactions.

After training, the journeyman exam can be taken and made ​​the master exam after at least three years journeyman. About the technical college or a high school, combined with a minimum one-year occupation, both a technical degree as a graduate engineer in textile and clothing technology offers as well as the economic program " Laundry Services ".

Types of laundry in a laundry

While previously the private client business has not yet played a major role today is the washing of commercial linen ( from hospitals, retirement and nursing homes, to hotels and restaurants), special clothing / protective clothing ( from industry and craft to corporate business clothing ) and clothing (especially from residential and nursing homes) in the foreground. Also washable today are a variety of mattresses, pillows and Deckeninletts, industrial cleaning cloths or mop of commercial cleaning companies.

There is no generally accepted classification of washable fabrics, but there is in many places a summary of textiles after the washing process downstream processing steps in:

  • Flatwork (including flatwork: especially bed and table linens, all lack enabled textiles)
  • Dry washing ( bath and underwear, all drier-resistant textiles)
  • Finishbare Textiles ( work clothes of mixed fabric )

The processing of the customer's own laundry is generally referred to as washing companies. Unlike leasing laundry that is provided by the laundry in the furnishing and employee facilities a lessee available.

The proportion of wage laundering percentage declined sharply in recent years, so many laundries have greatly expanded the service of furnishing and workwear Leasing. The term leasing laundry is often not the correct term, rather it is in most cases to textile rental, because the laundry type is specified by the laundry.

Especially large national and international companies, pure wage laundry processing does not offer, but do not include as leasing companies, for the most part even with specialization in, for example, workwear, hospitality and healthcare.

Operating a commercial laundry

For the operation of a commercial laundry, a large number of laws and regulations that regulate beyond questions of hygiene and safety, structural conditions but also the environmental impact of the operation apply.

Hygiene in Health Care

For the laundry from health care facilities that deal eg with the care of people, there are numerous provisions for laundry treatment. These include the Infection Protection Act, the Medical Devices Act, the Biocidal Products Regulation and the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI ). The recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute have quasi- legislative acts. Among the textiles that have to be processed there according to strict criteria, in addition to surgical textiles and linens include the workwear carers and nurses.

Hygiene in the food industry and gastronomy

Foods are now the world's most important carriers of infectious diseases in humans. The transfer of germs and pathogens by humans belong, after a review by the WHO together with insufficient cooling and heating of food among the main reasons for the investigated contaminants of food. But you could almost always be prevented by simple hygiene measures such as appropriate and perfectly hygienic clothing of the staff. Even the service staff clean and hygienic clothing is standard to prevent the contamination of ready -prepared food with pathogens.

Monitored Hygiene

There are several systems of hygiene standards in laundries.

Laws and Regulations

( This list is not exhaustive)

  • RAL quality and test RAL -GZ 992
  • DIN EN 14065 ( RABC system): prepared in laundries. Beuth Verlag, Berlin, 2002.
  • DIN 11905: Laundry and dry cleaning machines: washing machines, notions, machine designs, requirements. Beuth Verlag, Berlin 1975
  • Articles of Certification Association for Professional Textile Services eV
  • Research Institute Hohenstein laws, regulations, guidelines and regulations for the laundry and textile hygiene. Boennigheim 2003
  • BG regulation BGR 500, operation of work equipment, including Section 2.6 "Operation of Laundry "
  • Occupational Safety Regulations BGR A1 Principles of Prevention
  • GUV -R 250/TRBA 250 Biological agents in healthcare and welfare services
  • List of tested and approved by the Robert Koch Institute disinfectants and procedures, 15th Edition
  • Disinfectant list of the VAH ( Association for Applied Hygiene )
  • Formerly known as VAH - list list of the guidelines for the testing of chemical disinfectants and tested by the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology, found to be effective disinfection procedures
  • RKI: Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention at the Robert Koch Institute, plants to points Directive 4.4.3 and 6.4, "Requirements for the laundry from health care facilities, the laundry and the washing cycle and conditions for the granting of hospital linen to commercial laundries "
  • Infection prevention in nursing homes. The Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention at the Robert Koch Institute ( RKI)
  • Hygiene requirements for cleaning and disinfection of surfaces. The Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention at the Robert Koch Institute ( RKI)
  • Infection Protection Act (Act on the prevention and control of infectious diseases in humans)
  • Biological Agents Ordinance (Ordinance on the implementation of the EC Directive on the protection of workers from risks related to exposure to biological agents at work)
  • Leaflet TA 2048, BG information for laundries laundry, from which a risk of infection for workers
  • Law on Medical Devices
  • Regulation on the identification, evaluation and prevention of risks associated with medical devices ( Medical Device Safety Plan Regulation - MPSV )
  • Regulation on the installation, operation and use of medical devices (Medical Device Directive - MPBetreibV )
  • Hygiene requirements for the reprocessing of medical devices. The Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention at the Robert Koch Institute ( RKI) and the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices ( BfArM).
  • Regulation concerning medical devices ( Medical Device Regulation - MPV)
  • Council Directive 93/42/EEC concerning medical devices
  • Food Hygiene Regulations, Article 1: Regulation on the hygiene of foodstuffs
  • Council for Personal Protective Equipment Directive (manufacturer Directive ) 89/686/EEC
  • Council for Personal Protective Equipment Directive ( user policy ) 89/656/EEC
  • Eighth Ordinance to the Equipment Safety Act, notice of the recast of the Regulation on In placing on the market of personal protective equipment
  • Harmonization Directive for CE conformity marking
  • For the discharge of effluent from the reprocessing of laundry into the public sewerage system the conditions of the approval of the water authority or in accordance with the respective local ordinances apply. These follow the prescribed by regulation under § 57 para 2 WHG minimum requirements for discharge to receiving waters and the DWA -M 115 of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste
  • . Regulation on workplaces of 12 August 2004 Federal Legal Gazette I 2004: 2179
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