The proper cleanroom gowning supplies and furniture are essential for cleanroom contamination control. A gowning room, often referred to as an ante-room, is a space outside of the cleanroom in which operators change in and out of street clothes when. The room is divided into a dirty and clean side and optimized for sequential procedures with fewer steps.

Gowning Room Requirements and Applications

Cleanroom gowning requires different furniture and amenities based on the environment at hand. Generally it provides a staging area for sanitation, handwashing, storage, and donning apparel such shoe covers, hair nets (bouffants), gloves, and coats or coveralls.

Gowning rooms for chip fabrication or circuit board assembly areas limit human-driven artifacts such as dead cells, dandruff, hair, and other microparticles. Small particles deposited onto a printed circuit can result in total loss or late evolving defects. ESD fabrics prevent static discharge from damaging sensitive components.

In pharmaceutical, medical, and biotech applications, gowning rooms support passage from uncontrolled common areas to appropriately pressurized cleanrooms. For hazardous or sterile processing, the gowning room design must meet criteria for aseptic workflow, sterilization processes, and operator safety defined under USP, CGMP, or FDA mandates.

A Gowning Area that Supports Clean Protocol

The cleanest cleanrooms dispose of garments after each exit and entry, while cleanrooms with the highest particle thresholds may only change or launder garments twice a week. Here are some common activities and general estimates of particulate generation.

Figure 1: Gowning Area Particle Generators
Activity	> No. of particles (≥0.3μm)
Person emits during garmenting process	3,000,000/min.
Cleanest skin (hands)	10,000,000/ft2
Employee street clothes	10,000,000 to 30,000,000/ft2
Floor and bench surfaces	> 10,000,000/ft2
Garments supplied by cleanroom laundry	1,000,000/ft2

Source: Encyclopedia of Clean Rooms, Bio-Cleanrooms and Aseptic Areas, Dr. Philip Austin, P.E., 2000

Gowning Room Furniture

Workstations and ergonomic furniture are a key piece of comfort over long shifts. Storage lockers, benches, and workstations must fit in small spaces while also supporting safe movement, clean principles, and risk reduction. Furniture and surface requirements differ for unique environments, including but not limited to cleanroom classification, organizational standards, hazards, and product sensitivity. Every aspect of a cleanroom gowning room requires unique surfaces, materials, and and even fixtures for clean-forward use.

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