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Kenny Bloomquist <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:12:08 -0800
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Hi Brian,

Thanks for the reply. You say that there may be a problem with spills but
it's only water, nothing else is allowed. You put water on your sponges and
in a lot of companies people keep a small bottle of water on their bench to
refresh this sponge.

KennyB


At 06:56 PM 2/25/00 +0200, Brian Ellis wrote:
>Ken
>
>I guess the problem is with spills. IMHO, it would be better to have a
drinking
>fountain in the workshop, a couple of metres from any workbench.
>
>If you wish to be rigid, how do you stop the operators from yawning,
coughing or
>sneezing, all of which can spray body liquors in an aerosol over several
metres, even
>if they manage to put a hand in front of the face or even with a
paper/cotton mask?
>
>Brian
>
>Kenny Bloomquist wrote:
>
>> As long as Steve has brought up the touchy subject of safety glasses I
>> thought I'd throw in the touchy question of drinking water on the line.
>>
>> We work to J-STD-001 and flow that down to our subcontractors. We have a
>> subcontractor that has always allowed their operators to have a jug of
>> water at their bench. The containers they use are ESD safe and have a straw
>> out the top so they don't have to touch the top of the container where they
>> drink (unlike a sports bottle with a pop up top) .
>>
>> Two questions, what is the problem with this approach and when the spec
>> refers to "drinking" does it mean water and why? (woops I guess that's
>> three questions)
>>

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