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title: "Hygienic entrance with sole cleaning: brushes or a disinfection bath?"
description: The soles of shoes carry a lot of visible and invisible dirt. In the hygienic entrance the soles can be cleaned by brushes or a disinfection bath.
image: https://www.elpress.com/hubfs/web-images/tmpBlog04UXXpjk.webp
---

# Hygienic entrance with sole cleaning: brushes or a disinfection bath?

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 Published: December 10, 2018  |  Updated: July 08, 2024

**The soles of shoes carry a lot of visible and invisible dirt. It is therefore important to clean them thoroughly before entering the production area. If an employee wants to enter a so-called ‘high care’ area, then disinfecting the soles is also a must.**

Employees who come in wearing outdoor shoes and want to enter a production area where, for example, food is being processed, are obliged to clean their soles. In general, cleaning the soles with brushes is sufficient. In [the Elpress hygiene locks](https://www.elpress.com/personal-hygiene/hygienic-entrances), sole cleaning is almost always combined with washing and/or disinfecting the hands. While the employee disinfects his hands, the soles of his shoes are also cleaned. A hygiene sluice with sole cleaning only is also possible, but is much less common in practice.

## **Rotating brushes in the hygiene sytem**

The soles are cleaned with rotating brushes which are automatically activated by means of sensors. The brushes are moistened with water to which a small amount of disinfectant has also been added. This ensures effective disinfection, sufficient room for access to a production area where, for example, meat products are processed. In a hygiene lock, the sole cleaning can also be combined with shoe edge cleaning or - if boots are worn - shaft cleaning.

## High level disinfection - Footwear disinfecting bath

If employees want to enter a high care room - for example, a packaging room or the laboratory of a meat processing company - they first need to change their shoes. Everyday shoes therefore never enter such a high care space. Outdoor shoes or boots are placed in a shoe rack, the employee then steps over a bench into the ‘clean’ zone and puts on shoes for the high care area. In order to gain access to the high care area, the employee must go through a [disinfection bath.](https://www.elpress.com/personal-hygiene/sole-disinfection) This bath is often part of a hygiene lock where the hands are disinfected at the same time. Only after disinfection is the entrance gate released and the employee can enter the building.

The [disinfection bath](https://www.elpress.com/personal-hygiene/sole-disinfection) ensures that invisible microorganisms are also removed and the shoes or boots rendered sterile. The disinfection bath is automatically refreshed after twenty-five passages.

When the employee leaves the high care area again, the soles are cleaned with brushes or a disinfecting bath so that the shoes or boots are clean again and ready to pass through the disinfecting bath again when entering the high care area.

## When do you choose a hygiene entrance with brush sole cleaning?

- Where a general standard of hygiene should be achieved (low care)
- When there is gross contamination of the footwear

## When do you choose a hygiene entrance with a disinfecting bath?

- As a control for entering a high care area
- As an extra hygiene measure after the brush cleaning of the soles

## Which hygienic entrance is the best fit for your business?

Do you want to know which layout of the hygiene lock suits your company? Then fill in the [Hygiene Selector](https://elpress.typeform.com/to/RRhV48). In five steps, you can quickly and easily see what your hygiene lock has to comply with. You will then immediately receive no-obligation, customised advice about a hygiene lock for your company.

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